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So, one of my flights today had WiFi service advertized. Since I needed to get an email out, I decided to try it out. It wasn’t a successful experience. While I would not expect broadband speed at 34,000 feet, perhaps the designers of the site one has to visit to sign up should be reminded [...] 
(h/t Revolutions) R seems to have hit the big time, with O’Reilly acknowledging the language and assigning it a Harpy Eagle icon. The dead tree version is available from the usual outlets. O’Reilly sells electronic versions directly from its website.
Lordy, lordy, the internet’s 40! While Googling around for information on that infamous day in 1969 which would lead to the wonders of YouTube, Twitter, and World of Warcraft, I found this account from a UCLA article on the ’net’s 35th birthday: "All we wanted to do was to login from our host computer at UCLA [...]
Consider this Red Hat press release on the newswire: Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has gifted a grant to Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS) to create a state-of-the-art, open source computer laboratory. The laboratory, which will be officially dedicated later this year, will [...]
From an FTC press release: Beginning September 1, 2009, prerecorded commercial telemarketing calls to consumers – commonly known as robocalls – will be prohibited, unless the telemarketer has obtained permission in writing from consumers who want to receive such calls, the Federal Trade Commission announced today. However… The rule amendments going into effect on September 1 do not [...]
So, one of the big stories floating around the mainstream media today is on the denial of service attacks waged upon U.S. and South Korean websites in recent days. It’s not the first time it’s happened, nor is it the first time that such attacks have been mentioned in the media. Maybe it’s true that [...]
Unless you’re one of the <1% of the U.S. population who were completely oblivious, you know that yesterday was DTV transition day. By midnight local time Friday, most analog television signals had to be turned off, and the age of digital television broadcasting would be upon us. A lesser-known aspect of the transition was that some [...]
I’ve encountered rumblings in various places coming from existing iPhone users who are under contract with their current carrier (AT&T in the U.S.) and are unhappy with the prices asked for upgrading from older iPhones to the new 3GS. While I can certainly empathize – the new 3GS’s do have some nifty new featured over and [...]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, my project last weekend was in upgrading my laptop from Windows 7 Public Beta to Windows 7 Release Candidate. (Win7RC is being made available to the general public starting today, but it was released through MSDN and TechNet last week.) I thought I’d write a few words on [...]
My assessment of the iPhone since I got mine a few months ago is that in most things, it does an OK job, not a great one. It just excels at doing so many things adequately. One of the functions in which the iPhone has been just adequate (in my opinion) is in the realm of [...] |
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