Cable Guy Says Portals Are Toast
Leo Hindery is a cable guy. He’s always been a cable guy. He was the head of TCI which eventually got bought by AT&T and became AT&T Broadband. Later he was head of GlobalCenter and was there as that telco bubble-era play popped. Paul Kedrosky is now pointing to coverage [...]
$49.99 for a wireless router and 2 USB NICS? that’s pretty good price, I’d go woot if I wasn’t going to Hawaii in a week. Woot delivers one product a day for a great price. I actually looked at this router the other day when I had to shop for a router for work.
Fab [...]
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Yesterday. It seems so far away… And I really don’t know what to say, to explain, the screw up that was, yesterday.
Can you tell I’m trying to laugh? About a month ago my boss tells me that he’d fed up with TelePacific’s nickle and diming. Setting us up with voicemail… and then giving us a [...]
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Netgear delivers 85 Mbps over power lines
IT’S HARD not to love powerline technology (PLT), except for the price tag. You plug it into the wall socket, plug in your Ethernet connection, and it just works, using the home’s electrical wiring to move around data. There’s no fussing around with antennae, worrying about your neighbours poaching [...]
I ran acrossed this article titled High Performance WordPress on Asymptomatic. noting different ideas in which you can use caching to reduce the strain on your site, and survive a huge influx of traffic from a site such as Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, BoingBoing or Fark.
The main options (in which he goes indepth about) are using [...]
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I don’t live in an area that has an affordable fiber provider, so I’m constantly looking for the best, fastest, reliable High Speed Service. Currently I have 3/384 DSL from Pacbell (AT&T)… and it’s nothing close to that speed and it peeves me. I’d get Cable but I’ve heard too much grief in this area… [...]
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Big Easy to Telcos: Stick It
A showdown may be looming over a free wireless internet network that New Orleans set up to boost recovery after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the city.
Calling the network vital to the city’s economic comeback, New Orleans technology chief Greg Meffert is vowing to keep the system running as is, even if [...]
ILM’s state-of-the-art (storage) studio
Industrial Light & Magic uses high-speed NAS servers with a distributed file system, 10gb/sec Ethernet, and a 5000-node renderfarm to store and move 170tb of content
By Barbara Robertson
When George Lucas moved a large part of his filmmaking empire from San Rafael, California-a small town north of San Francisco-into a state-of-the-art, four-building complex [...]
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For some reason this song kept popping into my head as my friend was explaining his latest issue. What was it? A manufacturer saying that it’s router couldn’t do what Chris (my friend) wanted. Now an owner of a few routers I realize that if I wanted to I could always have parts of it’s [...]
I’ve been reading but not writing about he battles lately by the Baby Bells (AT&T and Verizon) to charge “content providers” for access to their customer base. First we had AT&T making waves (pretty soon after joining with SBC Global).
Ed Whitacre, chairman and CEO of AT&T, told Business Week in November, “Why should they [...]
