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23rd January Comments

YouTube, Vimeo Ditching Flash for HTML5

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 at 6:45 am

YouTube and Vimeo is kicking Adobe’s Flash to the curb in favor of the sharp new HTML5. Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that they are launching HTML5-based players on their video streaming sites, thus booting out the long-standing champ of multimedia delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security issues plaguing Adobe products, it’s no surprise [...]

Posted in Graphics, Networking

12th December Comments

I have email

Posted on December 12th, 2009 at 7:52 am

Darn after days of no email Mediacom has repaired the email fiasco and once again I am in touch with the world again, Thanks for all the work you did Mediacom. After I bragged them up so much I hated to dig at a bad spot but they have it running again.

Posted in Networking, Personal

4th December Comments

Follow in Twitter

Posted on December 4th, 2009 at 9:15 am

Okay it has happened I am joining the 21st century if you want to read my tweets, and they are not many I plan to tweet more on my up and coming roadtrip,but if you really want to know here is the addy My twitter feed so there ya go folks.

Posted in Networking, News, Personal

25th November Comments

Would You Accept Google’s Free Netbook?

Posted on November 25th, 2009 at 7:15 am

People seem underwhelmed by Chromium OS, but maybe Google has a bigger plan: how about producing a netbook running Chromium OS, and giving it away? The small hardware costs would be covered by advertising *in the Web apps*. Would you use one?
Like there is no ad’s on Google to start with? Of course I [...]

Posted in Hardware, Linux, Networking

6th July Comments

Forgot one

Posted on July 6th, 2009 at 7:59 am

Going back to the article concerning the demise of CompuServe one of the early providers that lost out was also Sprite, one that was costly and hard to access. There was one more that I really have let slide to the back of the tiny little brain but if some one can think of it [...]

Posted in Networking

28th February Comments

Seven Must-Have Firefox Security Add-Ons

Posted on February 28th, 2009 at 8:00 am

Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins to help protect the mobile worker.
Personally I use all but two of these little rascals and I might have to check into the others [...]

Posted in Networking, Security

26th February Comments

Marvell Offers Mini Plug Computer for Consumer, Network, Appliance Designs

Posted on February 26th, 2009 at 6:35 am

Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home. The little plug-in computers start with a gigahertz-class processor and are capable of acting like home media [...]

Posted in Linux, Networking

18th November Comments

IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is real

Posted on November 18th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

The fastest way to raise the hackles of most U.S. IT professionals is to mention offshore outsourcing. Among them, there is a common perception that U.S. corporations are cutting IT budgets by laying off lots of IT professionals and shipping their IT jobs overseas, and generally wrecking a lot of IT departments in the process.
This [...]

Posted in Networking, News

1st September Comments

Bandwidth Caps

Posted on September 1st, 2008 at 6:33 am

Okay as you all know, or I hope that you do Comcast has started to enforce a bandwidth on it’s users. While a 250 gig a month cap sounds like a lot, but if you have more than one computer and more than one user, what with movie,iso’s, podcasts, chattting, IM, and streaming music the [...]

Posted in Networking, News, Personal

28th August Comments

Easy file uploads with Droopy

Posted on August 28th, 2008 at 5:06 am

Suppose someone wants to send you a large file. They could try to send it via email, but many email servers impose limits on file size. They could try sending it over during an instant messenger or Internet Relay Chat session, but that’s slow, as the file actually gets transferred twice: once to the chat [...]

Posted in Networking, Software

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