Microsoft has some great writers that put together manuals and knowledgebase articles. So they made sure you knew if Windows ever notifies you about a weak signal, it probably means your connection isn’t as fast or as reliable as it could be. Worse, you might lose your connection entirely in some parts of your [...]
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Now I’ve had issues with the site going down before, but these were weird. My traffic has actually started tapering off when Dreamhosts DNS load balancer went south. So though the servers where up, at times you couldn’t get to them (depending on your DNS cache). According the Dreamhost the issue was:
The problems regarding [...]
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The city of Napa this week approved an agreement with AT&T Inc. for an approximately 12-square- mile deployment of ATThe planned Wi-Fi network will add publicly accessible wireless broadband capabilities to the extensive, advanced AT&T communications network in Napa, enabling residents, visitors, city employees and businesses to tap into the unsurpassed AT&T network from virtually [...]
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Engadget has written an article about a very nice offering from Linksys that has really captured my interest. Besides being based on the extremely fast (but not ratified) new n format, it has the ability to jump frequencies automatically for best perfoamce… even jumping bands. Plus the real coup de grais… a USB [...]
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Sys Admin > Halted Firewalls
As systems administrators, it’s often funny how new and interesting information ends up in our hands. Sometimes, it’s through an intentional course of study; other times, it seems to arrive by accident. That’s exactly how the concept of using a halted Linux computer as a firewall occurred to me. I was [...]
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There’s been a big push to bring technology to third-world countries, with the One Laptop Per Child $100 laptop program getting quite a bit of media attention. However, once we get these cheap laptops into the hands of people in developing nations, how are they supposed to connect to the Internet? Green Wi-Fi to the [...]
Photo Matt » OpenDNS
OpenDNS is a great idea, well-executed. They took something basic and ubiquitous, DNS, and improved it by adding spell-checking and phishing protection (usability enhancements). They provide the service for free in exchange for monetizing typo search pages. The typo search pages are simple, fast, and generally useful. What I was looking for [...]
We had no internet here for 4 days pretty much… because of a port.
Friday I worked myself through both Teir 1 and Teir 2 support only to determine it had to be something they had done. I had been working away and 10:30 bam we lost internet here. I tried some basic diagnostics, and then [...]
Official Google Blog: Update on wi-fi in San Francisco
In April the City and County of San Francisco chose the bid from EarthLink and Google to offer citywide Wi-Fi access, and we’re thrilled about that. A key part of this project has been keeping citizens apprised of our progress and answering questions along the way. Towards [...]
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Hackers hit 700 Israeli Web sites
JERUSALEM - Hundreds of Israeli Web sites were shut down by pro-Palestinian hackers as Israeli troops invaded southern Gaza after the abduction of an Israeli soldier, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.
The Jerusalem Post said about 700 Web sites were shut down early Wednesday. Their home pages were replaced by the [...]
