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September 29, 2005
As off topic as it gets
A while back I had an entry about not believing everything you see on the net. This entry is living proof.
The film trailer is here, if that doesn't work try here.
If you've never seen the Shining you won't get it.
Hat tip to National review's Corner and Tatteredcoat.
UPDATE: 9/30 Here is a link to the real trailer.
I know it is a real stretch to blog on this but I thought it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Posted by Peter at 08:36 PM | Comments (0)
Jarvis still not impressed with Dell
I might be wrong but this post from Jeff Jarvis suggests he is not impressed with Dell's new Luxury line machines or support his comment:
Which is to say that all the rest of Dell’s customers get crappy customer service and long waits and that in its other models, it doesn’t sell quality and only sells price.
The NYT article it is based on is here. I guess he hasn't recovered from his Dell Hell.
Dell did replace my the faulty power supply pretty quick. I actually unpacked the new supply, plugged it in, boxed the old supply and handed it to the delivery guy who brought the old one on the spot. I did received an invoice suggesting the old one didn't make it back. We will see if they get it or my own Dell Hell begins.
Posted by Peter at 03:31 PM | Comments (1)
September 28, 2005
Nano not what it cracked up to be
The Washington Post Headline from their story (via Glenn) says it all:
Apple admits problem with iPod nano.
I think this quote from the Apple Rep is priceless:
"It is a real, but minor issue involving vendor quality problems," an Apple spokesman said of the nano screen issue.He added the problem has occurred in less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the iPod nanos sold so far.
That comes to under a thousand units per million, but the units are so new we don't know if the issue will appear in others. Is this the opening Sony needs?
My own Opinions on the Nano are listed here.
Posted by Peter at 09:49 PM | Comments (0)
Palm = Apple a glimpse of the future?
You might remember the days when Palm meant PDA as far as the world was concerned. This article on CNET goes through the reasons why Palm has been reduced to partnership with MICROSOFT.
Via Inside Microsoft which says the following:
Every reason on the articles list can translate to potential pitfalls for Apple.We will see if he is right.
Posted by Peter at 08:05 PM | Comments (0)
September 27, 2005
The Amusing World of Errors: Mini-Size Me!
This is in a rather amusing bug in the Madden 2006 console game. While normally not worthy of notice, it is an amusing respite to see programming errors materialize in such a funny way. I'm not sure how funny Michael King, a Defensive Lineman of the New York Jets, feels that this is a amusing situation being portrayed as being seven inches tall in the game.
I would not want to be the person who made that mistake in the spreadsheet, nor would I want my identity to fall into the hands of that lineman.
The entire article can be found here on ZDNet.
Posted by at 10:49 AM | Comments (0)
September 26, 2005
Well fall is the time for a Carnival
The Carnival of Computing is now up collecting a series of interesting blog posts about computers and computing in general.
The topics are mixed so there is something for everyone. It is hosted by AnyLetter.
Hat tip who else?
Posted by Peter at 08:12 PM | Comments (1)
Palm Will Team With Microsoft for the Next Version of the Treo Organizer
CNBC had on this morning a interview with CEO from Palm and Bill gates. I only caught the last minute or so of the interview. It seems something big was going on though so I searched out on the web and found that Palm is going to use MS mobile OS for the new Trio to work I believe with Verizon.
Here is very intresting article I wanted to pass on from NY Times on this. They touch on the new OS. Very exciting stuff with the possible options we can have for PDA's. They seem to have taken a back burner position to the new ipods and cell phones in the news. I for one miss the pda's. Still haven't desided on picking up pda or maybe the Itunes phone.
How about you? Anyone have the new Ipod phone how do you like it? Has anyone found they can get Podcasts on them? Things I will be looking for.
Cheers
Eric
Posted by Eric at 01:58 PM | Comments (0)
Not a bad idea
Was talking to a friend of mine who does a lot of financial stuff on his PC. I was asking him what kind of protection he has on his system and he said none.
While recovering from the shock he continued:
I use my 98 system with Office 97 word and excel on it. I keep all my financial records on it but I don't have it connected to the net at all. It's perfect I have a use for the old machine and since the credit card stuff is just crunching numbers it's more than fast enough.
This sounds like great advice. Everybody gets old machines that they don't know what to do with them. Of course this wouldn't apply if you are using a product that stores data on an online server but it would be fine for someone just backing up and using.
Posted by Peter at 12:34 PM | Comments (0)
September 23, 2005
The Heat is on
This is the death of computers in general and laptops in particular.
Why is heat so deadly to PC's?
The answer will show up next week see the extended entry for last weeks answer.
What does "not properly shut down..." Message mean? Does it really matter?
Windows when it opens up a ton of files on background. These files will consist of many programs and procedures that create and support the graphical interface that makes our operating systems usable by people who do not have a degree in computer science. When there programs are run variables are established and set and internal files opened for values placed there by various programs.
When you shut down windows all of the files opened are closed. And those variable cleared. When windows is not properly shut down then those files are not closed, those variables are not cleared and set to neutral values for the next boot.
During a windows boot if it detects that this is the case the not properly shut down message comes up. At that point windows attempt to re-clear those values before the actual boot begins.
Does it matter? 49 times out of 50 it will not make any more of a difference except for the delay in boot, however it is a crap shoot. I have seen windows fail to recover from a bad shutdown. There are times when it is unavoidable due to a freeze, but whenever possible A proper shutdown should be done to keep the odds in your favor.
Posted by Peter at 08:08 AM | Comments (0)
September 22, 2005
A night at the opera
AP reports that the OPERA web browser is now available for free download as opposed to the $39 or ad filled option that was available before.
This will give it a chance to get a share of the browser market that has (like me) has ignored it since there are plenty of free alternatives that work fine. From the AP story:
Christen Krogh, Opera's vice president of engineering, insisted the move was not prompted by the success of Firefox, whose rapid growth in usage has threatened to push Internet Explorer's market share below 90 percent for the first time in years.
Yeah right.
Apparently this is a lesson lost on the New York Times. Blogger Mickey Kaus at slate quotes a reader:
"Do we read the times op-ed page and argue with it because it's that good, or because we know that the NYT website gets 29 million readers a month (which few free sites do) and we want to comment on ideas that "most people are reading"?I think it's the latter. If they make people pay, that could change!
I'm betting he's right.
UPDATE: What is it with me and messing up names? Sorry Mickey.
Posted by Peter at 08:25 AM | Comments (0)
September 21, 2005
Keep it cool (Targus chill pad review)
I have a bunch of computers in this house all are towers except for a single laptop. The towers are at least 3 years old (one is as old as 8) and I have no reason to believe that they will die anytime soon.
Laptops are another matter. My Inspiron 1150 is nearing the one year mark and I am a tad worried. Eric picked up an ACER at Circuit City (the stinker got a screen double my size for half the price!) but also purchased a $200 extended warranty due to a history with dying laptops.
The design of a laptop makes it more vulnerable to heat than a regular system. A simple way to counteract it is with a cooling pad. I use the TARGUS PA248U Tornado Notebook Chill Pad
It is a simple solution. The pad plugs into the usb and draws the power to run the fans to cool the system. This is a smart investment.
Be wary of the cord, it is not strong and having my kids move the system got it broken pretty quickly. Also watch out when putting weight on the laptop when it is not docked, it can cause the fans to be hit by the plastic.
All in all it's a worthwhile device.
Note Portions of this review will be duplicated at amazon.com here.
Posted by Peter at 11:55 AM | Comments (0)
We get spam too
As you might notice there are two ways to get noticed on this blog:
1. You can leave a comment under an entry2. You can link to our site via which leaves a trackback
As you might guess some sites will leave trackbacks in order to get a linkback to increase their traffic. We have had other cases where sites have left a generic comment on several entries in order to link to all kinds of sales sites from diabetic supplies, to vacation sites to online porn.
On a daily basis I check for this stuff. Anything of that nature is removed and the IP banned. If you catch something like this on our site, rest assured that it will not linger.
There are other steps we can take but that would restrict the ability of people to leave trackbacks and comments a bit, if it gets unmanageable in the future we'll consider it, but for now I'll just clean up the mess daily.
BTW I check each site that does this, the latest one that did is actually a good site concerning online gaming such as Everquest and World of Warcraft. As these are topical (and several of us here are gamers) I will leave that trackback. The site is MModaily.com and they can be found here.
UPDATE: Well so much for being Mr. Nice guy we are getting a bunch of spam trackbacks from that site. I checked the forums and we are not mentioned so it is spam and the trackbacks are toast.
It doesn't speak well for the site above. Speaking as a gammer it seems lame.
Posted by Peter at 10:57 AM | Comments (0)
September 19, 2005
What a Trip
Finally had a chance to play with the company iTrip. I've come to the following conclusions:
It is a great improvement on any of the headphones offered by with the pod.
It not only comes in handy in a car, but is great with an old radio that normally can't pick up stuff.
It has massive potential as a practical joke device (except for it's limited range)
It is not too expensive, and anyways if you are dropping the kind of money you would spend on a pod you might as well buy this too.
I haven't played with other brands yet but when I do you'll know about it.
Posted by Peter at 12:24 PM | Comments (0)
September 18, 2005
Yahoo obeying the law in China, breaking it in the US?
You might remember the Shi Tao case where we commented on here , here and here . It is examined in a Washington Post Editorial today. Most interesting passage:
...in 1989 Congress specifically forbade U.S. companies to sell "crime control and detection" equipment to the Chinese. At the time, that meant police gear, such as truncheons and handcuffs. Members of Congress have recently asked the Commerce Department to clarify whether that law covers the sale of filters or other repressive information technology.
That could put yahoo and other companies in an interesting position for the future. Even if that isn't covered the post is not impressed and they close thus:
if, in fact, American companies are helping China become more authoritarian, more hostile and more of an obstacle to U.S. goals of democracy promotion around the world -- then it is time to rethink the rules under which they operate.
Bad press can be a killer. Via Instapundit.
Posted by Peter at 03:28 PM | Comments (0)
September 17, 2005
Gas up your iPod!
Toshiba has a gem in the works for all you iPod owners out there.
The new technology deals with a methanol fuel cell that will give the iPod up to 35 more hours on a single charge. Also in the works is a bigger version of this cell that will take MP3 players all the way up to the 60 hour mark!
The target date is set for sometime next year.
Posted by at 10:18 PM | Comments (1)
September 16, 2005
Ipod Nano? Wear your quadrupefocals
As you can guess the IPOD NANO is still getting great press from a bunch of people who love or want it.
However another weakness of it hit me while I was using the Company's IPOD PHOTO.
I put all the photo's from Mini-Vacation #1 on the pod and took it with me to show people some of the pictures. It was very evident that unless the person was very young the screen was just too small for peope to see things and the slightest bit of glare made it almost impossible.
Picture that screen even smaller and you now have the IPOD Nano in play. My eyes are pretty good and I've never needed glasses but you can see things only so small. Perhaps because the target demographic is so young they figure it is no big deal, but for me, the addition of the photo stuff is much less useful than the extra memory of the mini.
Can the IPOD movie be far behind?
Posted by Peter at 09:10 PM | Comments (0)
September 15, 2005
Who cares how it's shut down?
Every one of us has seen the: "Windows was not properly shut down...." message at one time or another, the system scans fixes itself and boots (hopefully) anyway.
What does "not properly shut down..." Message mean? Does it really matter?
The answer will be posted with our next question. Read below for the answer to last weeks question. (Yes we are making them weekly now.)
SDRAM. DIMM's. PC100. What does it all mean?!
All of them refer to types of RAM memory for a computer.
A DIMM stands for Dual In-line Memory Module. This is a type of memory card with a 64 bit path (as opposed to SIMM'S which had only 32)SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory referrs to a type of chip located on DIMM. Because of it's Synchronous nature it can run faster than older memory types. on a system. PC100 is simply a spec that states that the memory used (perhaps on a SDRAM chip on a DIMM) that runs at a speed of 100MH.
All these terms are useful but in the end things will continue to improve and the time will come when the lot will be in the Computer Museum
Posted by Peter at 08:06 PM | Comments (0)
September 13, 2005
iTunes finally turns 5
5.0 that is.
Just released, iTunes version 5.0 with a newer streamlined interface is now available for download over at the Apple Web Site.
More critiques on the new version as we get time to look at it.
Posted by at 11:01 AM | Comments (0)
September 12, 2005
Look at the Pretty Colors!
The Aurora Borialis.... also known as "The Northern Lights", are not typically seen outside of the arctic. But sometimes we get them a little further south of that. While breathtaking, they can be a little bothersome for some of your devices.
Northern light effects are caused by electromagnetic waves becoming refracted above Earth's magnetic north pole. Earth's own magnetic field surrounds us much like an over-inflated inner tube, with "holes" in the field over the south and north magnetic poles. The Sun showers electromagnetic energy all around us all the time. At the poles, this energy is drawn in and refracted, creating one heck of a nice light show.
Sometimes, the sun will have a solar flare. These flares are like eruptions on the sun's surface, and are essentially huge natural nuclear explosions. When a flare shoots out into space it generates a great amount of elecromagnetism. During a solar flare, the abundance of energy can make the aruora visible much farther south than normal, giving many of us a really neat light show. Right now, in the middle of September 2005, there is a rather large sunspot that has the potential to produce some massive solar flares. Click here to check on the status.
But so what? Its just lights in the sky, right?
Yes. Essentially its pretty harmless. Unless, of course, you happen to be a satellite or radio device. Electromagnetic energy does not play nicely with electronic equipment, or anything that runs on electricity. A big enough pulse can disrupt electricity, any electronic equipment and even radio waves. This is not something we would normally expect from solar flares, however large, here on Earth's surface. But up there in orbit? Definitely. Oh yeah.
What this means to you, Dear Reader, is that if you live in the northern climes of the world, your wireless devices, sattelite TV, GPS systems, satellite and cell phones could act strangely or intermittently. But don't worry. Unless you happen to own one of the satellites orbiting the planet right now you shouldn't have to replace any equipment. But don't be suprised if your satellite TV isn't working, or your GPS tells you you're on the other side of your state or something. Some cell services depend on satellite communication and could be disrupted temporarily. Satellite phones could be rendered useless during such an event.
When the flare is over, your devices should work properly again. If you plan on taking pictures of the natural light show, I might suggest using the old fashioned film camera instead of the digital one, just for good measure :)
PCB
Posted by Bernie at 01:49 PM | Comments (0)
September 11, 2005
and Rebecca MacKinnon replies...
Rebecca MacKinnon answers Jerry Yang argument:
Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only. If Shi Tao's email account had been hosted on servers outside of China, Yahoo! wouldn't have been legally obligated to hand over his information.
That seems to put a hole in the following the law argument.
Even more devistating is the title of Roger Simon's article on the subject:
Yahoo - A Good 1940s German Company
Via Glenn.
Posted by Peter at 07:49 PM | Comments (0)
September 10, 2005
Yahoo's Chief speaks
Yahoo's chief Jerry Yang has commented on the Shi Tao case that we mentioned here:
"We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws," Yang told journalists"I don't like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that's what we need to do."
What is that old saying concerning dogs and fleas?
via Drudge.
Posted by Peter at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)
September 09, 2005
Vacation # 1 Pictures as promised
The extended entry contains the promised pictures from Vacation #1
Here is the impresive fountain and Memorial in Easton near the Crayola Factory.
Here is the world's Largest Crayon:
Here is the world's greatest family:
Hershey Park Chocolate World:
One of Many Coasters:
Gettysburg a Reb marker, one of many:
The 20th Maine's Charge was celebrated in the movie Gettysburg. Chamberlan's bayonet charge saved the day on the Union Left:
Not mentioned in movies but even more heroic was the charge of the 1st Minnesota. There were no troops to stop a rebel advance on the center. The 1st Minnesota arrived first and was ordered to charge to buy time for the rest of the Army. Every man knew that they were being sacrificed. They charged anyway 262 men attacking over a thousand. Only 47 came back untouched. Every officer was killed or wounded. They took 82% casualties but the 10-15 minutes gained was enough for reinforcements to arrive to plug the center of the line and keep Lee from winning Gettysburg on the 2nd day.
The New Cumberland Dinner in Harrisburg was first rate. We ate there twice and if we are in the area again will go there again. The menu is huge and the quality high.
Here is the strangest picture of the trip, taken in the ladies room at Perkins in Bethlehem because my wife wanted to record the tile pattern for redoing ours.
And now the $64,000 question: Would you buy tech support from this man?
Posted by Peter at 11:17 PM | Comments (0)
Today's Question: Memory... Which Kind Do You Need?
SDRAM. DIMM's. PC100. What does it all mean?!
Find out tomorrow!
Yesterday's Question: USB vs. Firewire.
USB and FireWire are essentially serial ports on your computer. Both are in wide use today for everything from keyboards and mice to external hard drives and iPods. But what is the difference, really? Is one any better than the other?
Physically, USB and FireWire differ in the number of actual wires in the cable. USB has 4 while FireWire has 6. Traditional wisdom dictaes the more wires, the faster the transfer rates. SATA and IDE drives are an example. SATA is faster with 80 pins, while IDE only has 40. SATA is faster than IDE...
The same holds true in part with USB and FireWire. USB 1.0 allowed a maximum transfer rate of 12Mbits/second. That rate is referred to as 'USB.' Some manufacturers label their products Full-Speed USB. This is not, however, the high speed of USB 2.0. This specification uses three speeds: Hi-Speed, Full-Speed and Low-Speed. High speed is capable of 480Mbits/second. Mice and keyboards use low speed, as they don't require much to function properly. Some devices, like an iPod for example, want the higher speeds and will work more efficiently there. In fact, Apple recommends USB 2.0, though you can usually get the iPod to function on USB 1.1
FireWire (IEEE 1394) is comparable. It has a rate of 400Mbits/second, and is much faster than the 12Mbits/second that USB 1.0 allows, but not quite as fast as the 480Mbits/second of USB 2.0.
However, there is now FireWire 800 (IEEE1394b). This doubles the transfer rate of FireWire to 800MBits/second. It is certainly faster than USB 2.0. The initial IEEE 1394-1995 and following IEEE 1394a standards allowed for 100Mbps, 200Mbps or 400Mbps. Now with IEEE1394b and an 8000MBits/second transfer rate, you have to ask yourself just one question.... What will my device use?
This really depends on the age of the device. Chips using the faster speeds for either type of port would be found in newer devices. FireWire 800 uses 8 wires of a 9 wire cable, adding bandwidth and inrcreasing rates. It is also fairly new. If your device doesn't support FireWire 800 and you have the port on your computer, it will only use the IEEE 1394 capability of 400MBits/second.
Soon we will see more FireWire 800 devices coming to market. Everything from cameras to hard drives to PDA's will want to utilize the speed. But don't worry... it's all backwards compatible. You wont have to abandon your old devices. Keep your eyes open for it when shopping for new devices, though. You'll want the new FireWire 800.
Posted by Bernie at 11:06 AM | Comments (0)
September 08, 2005
The Walkman strikes back!
Apparently Sony has decided not to take the IPOD NANO sitting down:
Just hours after Apple unveiled its iPod Nano, Sony on Thursday unveiled several new Walkman players in an effort to recapture the portable music player market it once dominated.
Beta news has the full story.
It looks nice but I suspect I'm too cheap to buy this too.
Via Baptest
Posted by Peter at 03:29 PM | Comments (0)
Hey I found it.
The elusive USB cable for the camera has been found!
Promised photo's from Mini-Vacation 1 will be forthcoming tomorrow.
(It somehow ended up in the drawer in the couch where the kids game controllers live.)
Posted by Peter at 11:49 AM | Comments (0)
That didn't take long
As of this morning the IPOD NANO is the #1 item in Technorati.
I'm still underwhelmed.
Looks like I'm keeping my minotiry status.
But I'm not alone!
UPDATE: Wall Street Journal review Here (via Glenn)
Posted by Peter at 11:25 AM | Comments (0)
September 07, 2005
USB VS. FireWire... Ready... Fight!
What is the difference between USB and FireWire(IEE 1394)?
tune in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion! Same HiWired Blog, Same HiWired Channel!
Click the extended entry to see the answer to yesterdays question.
What is a USB connection?
USB Stands for Universal Serial Bus, and it is one of the most commonly used connections for perepherals like printers, cameras and the like.
Physically the cables all have one rectangular shaped end that goes into the computer, and the other end can be one of two common styles, either a large blocky "D" shaped one or a smaller rectanglular shaped one.
The Important things to know about USB are:
1. It is hot swappable. Meaning that if you need to unplug a USB device, or plug it in, you do not need to turn off your computer.
2. The data transfer rates are higher than that of older Serial or Paralell connections,which translates into less wait time for the printer to start printing, or for a file to transfer from an external drive.
3. It is powered! so you can have devices like USB Thumb drives (or mini drives, jump drives etc) that do not require any power cables.
of course that last one actually led to interesting gadgets like USB Christmas trees and Snowmen, travel lights, as well as my personal favorite, the Glowing Duck USB Drives.
Props to Engadget.com and i-duck.co.uk for the links.
Posted by at 10:44 PM | Comments (0)
And we like this better because?
The IPOD NANO has been announced.
Brian Behrend is has a good short description of it.
I personally am underwhelmed. Compared to the Mini (which is going bye bye) it seems you are trading 2 gigs for the smaller device, flash memory and the photo ability.
That 2 gigs is a lot of music, but the photo ability might be worth it for those who don't want to pay $600 for the photo.
I can't see me buying it. In the first place the price is equal to a month's tuition at my youngest kids school. In the second place it is small enough for me to lose even easier. In the third place, I'm Cheap.
But I am in the minority on this one, not only on the net but likely at hiwired too.
Oh well.
UPDATE: I decimated Brian's name in the first post, it's fixed now sorry about that. How I managed to turn "Behrend" into "Berhard" is a question for psychologists more expensive than I can afford.
Posted by Peter at 10:06 PM | Comments (2)
September 06, 2005
Well this changes the landscape
The New York Times, (via Drudge) reports that the legalities of file downloads have just gotten more complicated:
An Australian court ruled today that the popular file-sharing network Kazaa violates Australian music copyrights and ordered the company to modify its software to help prevent it.
The court's solution will make things interesting:
While the ruling in Australia was based solely on that country's copyright laws, the order to modify its software could have a broader impact, as Kazaa has users worldwide.
I have very little sympathy for Kazaa which installs a dazzling amount of spyware with its free software. The big question is will this ruling have legs beyond down under or will we just see Kazza Australia and Kazza everywhere else? Is it worth breaking the law for a 99 cent download?
Posted by Peter at 10:03 PM | Comments (0)
Yahoo joins the Microsoft & Cisco club
Well if Glenn and Global voices online are correct, it looks like Yahoo has gone from unclean hands to joining the club big time:
According to Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders), Information supplied by Yahoo! helped Chinese journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison
As you can guess they have some pretty pointed words concering this:
“We already knew that Yahoo ! collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well,” the press freedom organisation said.
Later in the story some exculpatory information is included for yahoo:
Yahoo ! Holdings (Hong Kong) is subject to Hong Kong legislation, which does not spell out the responsibilities in this kind of situation of companies that provide e-mail services. Nonetheless, it is reportedly customary for e-mail service and Internet access providers to transmit information to the police about their clients when shown a court order.
This brings a whole new meaning to "The cost of doing business".
Posted by Peter at 09:33 PM | Comments (0)
That will show those Norway guys
A new virus hitting the net has an interesting target Porn!
A new Windows trojan attempts to dissuade internet users from viewing pornography by interspersing a quote from the Koran, the anti-virus firm Sophos said.
No word on if it is being used by employers in Norway
Posted by Peter at 09:22 PM | Comments (0)
It be USB
USB is now the defacto standard of PC connection.
What is a USB connection?
The answer will be posted tomorrow, click the extended entry for the pre fundraiser answer.
What IS bandwidth, anyway?
Bandwidth refers to the data capacity of a particular connection, as opposed to the speed of said connection. Or to put it another way the speed of an internet connection would be the speed limit of a highway, while the bandwidth would be the number of lanes in the highway. Unlike a highway however you can have a different bandwidth uploading and downloading.
When you purchase an internet connection from a provider it will come with a particular amount of bandwidth and speed. Additional bandwidth can most likely be purchased from a provider. If you are doing a lot of downloading then higher bandwidth is exactly what you are looking for. Increased bandwidth is usually the province of business.
One thing to remember bad quality cable can reduce your bandwidth no matter what your system is set for. This can be key if you are playing a high powered internet game.
Posted by Peter at 08:15 PM | Comments (0)
Well done all
As of 7:53 EST tonight the total from NZ Bear's site for Hurricane Katrina Relief is $ 1,240,807.
Well done all involved.
To all who gave from whatever site or group, thanks muchly.
Posted by Peter at 07:49 PM | Comments (0)
September 01, 2005
Give till it hurts, then add $10
We've already posted the link once but major players in the land of blogs are using today to link to various charities for relief today. As almost always Instapundit has the most comprehensive set of links.
Personally I'll be donating through Catholic Charities, but anything from the American Red Cross to Amazon's donation link will do.
Update: Considering the cause I'm sure Mike won't object to the link.
Update II: They'll be plenty of time for questions of the day tomorrow, today this is our only topic.
Update III The blogs are continuing their fundraising over the weekend. NZBEAR is keeping track of online contributions from a huge assortment of blogs that are giving. Although we have not signed up for the list as we are a business that happens to blog rather than a straight blog, we will keep this as our only post through the Labor day weekend. Where you give is irrelevant. That you give is vital!
Posted by Peter at 07:25 AM | Comments (0)