Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
My lovely Linksys router crapped out on me recently. When I got it, I was originally buying it for my Dad. But when setting it up at my parents, anytime I was connected and they'd answer the phone (cordless), the wireless network vanished. They ran on the ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
I've been fascinated with BitTorrent ever since I started hearing about it (shortly after Bram Cohen's test torrent of pr0n). At the time I didn't really have the fastest of Internet speeds, and when I did I could never get it working properly. Then I finally got it ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
I just read some disturbing news regarding my ISP. Starting on Thursday Time Warner Cable is going to metering usage for the Internet in some town in Texas. The plan is a pilot program, but if it catches on you can bet your ass Time Warner is going ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
For the past year my set up has been an 17" iMac as my primary computer, then a Toshiba laptop with Vista as my laptop. It was a decent setup, but it definitely lacked a few things. For instance, I hated Vista (couldn't upgrade to XP either because ...
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