Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Google has made an announcement that could help hundreds of homeless people in San Francisco get back on their feet. Every single homeless person in the city will be given a...
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Digg-style voting meets Ubuntu Development
A new website has launched called Ubuntu Brainstorm and it looks to be the seedling of a site that has a lot of great potential for driving the direction of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. At the...
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NIN Shocks Internet with 36 Track Instrumental
If you like Nine Inch Nails, click this link before reading any further (so you can listen to the album right now while you read a little about it from me). I’ve been on a pretty good streak writing...
View ArticleThe Best Video I've Seen Explaining Net Neutrality
If you like the above video, you may wish to read an older blog post of mine: “What if George Orwell had written about Net Neutrality?“ promotion code for nordstrom how to get rid of gas and bloating...
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How to setup Internet Connections in Ubuntu
This blog is divided into four parts: Setting up your wired Internet Connection. Troubleshooting wired Connections. Setting up your wireless adapter. Installing Firestarter Firewall. Let’s get started...
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Creative Labs Outrages Windows Vista Users
Creative Labs is causing a stir among open-source developers and Windows Vista users alike. Apparently there have been a lot of driver issues happening exclusively within Windows Vista with many Sound...
View ArticleDaniel_K, Creative Labs Whistleblower, Speaks
Recently, I wrote about Creative Labs going after a certain community software modder whose sin was to make his audio drivers work the way they’re supposed to work. Here’s an excerpt of what he had to...
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Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04
So we’re getting down to the final days of testing before the official release of Ubuntu 8.04. There are several new features included with it, but we’re only going to take a look at just a couple of...
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Google Releases New Open-Source Browser
Seemingly by surprise to most Internet users, Google has launched a release of a new Internet web browser dubbed Google Chrome. I have been using it for about five minutes on my super slow computer...
View ArticleHow Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Mail Was “Hacked”
There’s a lot of buzz in the media today over Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin whose Yahoo! Mail account was recently compromised by an anonymous individual. The breach occurred just before...
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Forget the iPhone – The Google Phone Is Coming.
It’s hard to say just how long I’ve been waiting for this phone to come out. Scheduled to be on sale just in time for the holidays (can’t we agree that Halloween is twice as fun as Christmas?), this...
View ArticleA Friendly Reminder – Don’t Vote! Unless…
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View ArticleWikipedia Switches To Ubuntu Servers
Wikipedia, hailed as the shining zenith of collective human knowledge (and critizised as a “knock off” educational institution by those who fear their job will one day be replaced by it) has decided to...
View Article“CRITICAL” Internet Explorer Flaw! AGAIN!
As much as it would probably sooth the stiffness in my neck and shoulders from doing busy work inventorying computer equipment today, I’m going to try to not turn this into a sarcastic sounding slam...
View ArticleCisco Sued By Free Software Foundation
Cisco, the most famous manufacturer of enterprise and consumer networking devices, has been known to use source code from open-source projects like Linux and other related software to run on their...
View Article“Sixth Sense” Technology Introduced @ TED
This is what you get when you combine a portable video projector, a camera and a cell phone that has access to the Internet and the ability to process visual information for you. Simply amazing!...
View ArticleTorrent Droid: Steal Films With Your Phone
You’re walking through the entertainment department at your local shopping center and pick up a DVD that you’d like to see. You scan the bar code on the back of the DVD with your cell phones camera....
View ArticleApril Fools Virus On Schedule
I don’t normally pass along virus alerts because they are often outdated and obsolete, but this one is strait from my IBM inbox. You may have heard about a virus that is set to strike on April 1st in...
View ArticleFive Internet Scams Detailed By FBI
I came across an article in Network World magazine that goes over five common Internet scams and thought this needed to be shared with everybody. Please click here to read the article.
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Some of Norton Antivirus’ source code has leaked
Heads up Norton users! A headline hit the news last night about the confirmed leak of source code for the popular Norton Antivirus software by Symantec. You can read the articles for yourself here...
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Scam Alert: Someone from India calls you about a virus
I’ve been hearing more and more stories from clients I have worked for and from other techs who do what I do for a living. People are getting phone calls from a call center filled with employees that...
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Is Valve planning a Linux based gaming console?
For those of you who don’t know, Steam is an online game store and distribution platform that is a product of a gaming developer called Valve. Valve has been know for creating several very popular...
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