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- Monsoon Multimedia Hava Wireless HD
- Whether you call it placeshifting or remote viewing, there is a small but growing number of products that let you watch your home TV from a far-flung location via any broadband Internet connection. Sony pioneered the field with its LocationFree TV products, only to be made the underdog by savvy...
- Tags: Ethernet, Network technology, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Windows XP, TV & Home Theater, Cable, Hava, Slingbox, HAVA Wireless HD, Monsoon, wireless
- Product reviews 2006-11-08
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- A looming election nightmare?
- After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act HAVA. As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines. Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that this will have the opposite effect than the one Congress intended. ...
- Tags: Problem, Diebold Inc., Ballot, E-voting, Corporate Governance, Printers, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Peripherals, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Expect a settlement in Monsoon GPL suit
- UPDATE: That didn't take long. Those who expected a quick settlement win just what folks won on Iron Chef, namely the people's ovation and fame forever. Monsoon Multimedia, by the way, is based in Noida, India, near Delhi. Despite an immense excitement over the filing...
- Tags: GPL, Settlement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-22
- Pinnacle PCTV To Go Wireless - TV tuner / video input adapter - 802.11g
- When Monsoon Multimedia released its Hava Wireless HD product in 2006, the company made no attempt to hide the fact that it was largely a "proof of concept" device. In other words, they were highly interested in licensing the product to a larger company with better brand recognition. Flash...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, TV & Home Theater, IEEE 802.11g, adapter, TV, TV Tuner, Pinnacle, wireless, Slingbox, HAVA Wireless HD, Wireless HD, Pinnacle PCTV, PCTV, video, PC
- Product reviews 2007-04-25
- Changes in e-voting afoot but who will foot the bill?
- With new federal guidelines on e-voting machines and widespread voter discontent, changes at the polling place are a sure thing for the 2008 Presidential election, The New York Times reports. "In the next two years I think well see the kinds of sweeping changes that people expected to see...
- Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology, paper
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Why Microsoft won't assault Linux
- Why Microsoft won't assault Linux1BFor once, we mostly agree.However, you might put a bit more weight on "1b:" the threat is more potent than the assault. A known danger creates less fear than an unknown one, which takes on the dimensions of the imagination.MS is well aware of this,...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Solaris
- Discussion threads 2006-11-08
- Sony LF-B20 LocationFree Base Station (wireless)
- Like the Sling Media Slingbox, Sony's LocationFree products enable viewers to view and control TV channels from their home cable or satellite boxes on any broadband-connected PC, be it elsewhere in the home or anywhere in the world. In fact, Sony's first LocationFree products--the LF-X1 and the LF-X5--were available...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cable, Network technology, wireless, Slingbox, Sony Corp., LocationFree TV, LF-B20, software
- Product reviews 2006-10-17
- Voting electronically? Be very afraid!
- This Novembers election marks the first widespread use of electronic voting in the US. There is considerable concern among computer security professionals and others that electronic voting is not secure and evidence keeps mounting that the current crop of machines are not secure as they could be. The Help...
- Tags: E-voting, precinct, audit
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- The meaning of "relational"
- The meaning of "relational"Nice try, but not quite thereI would strongly recommend C. J. Date's "Database in Depth" for anyone interested in a very clear explanation of relational theory. Set theory is important of course but not, I think, as central as predicate logic; we are not just interested in...
- Tags: Databases, Programming languages, Set Theory, theory, relational theory, SQL, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2006-06-06
- Warnings on voter databases
- With the creation of centralized computerized databases of voter registrations mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 HAVA, many states have failed to institute necessary safeguards to protect their data against fraud, according to a new report from the Association for Computing Machinery. "Nobody's done...
- Tags: ACM, database
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Spyware pushers cashing in on zero day exploit
- Spyware pushers cashing in on zero day exploitAgain the Linux propaganda...I just can't anymore with these linux guys, trying to convert people from Windows. They really look like the TV evangelists, except that these ones aren't so boring ;-). Folks, I've been supporting users in the last 10 years and...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, spyware, Linux, Microsoft Windows, zero-day bug
- Discussion threads 2005-12-31
- Wikipedia's open-source label conundrum
- Wikipedia's open-source label conundrumConfusing software with contentThis article appears to confuse the CONTENT of an application with the software that underlies the operation of the application. Wikipedia IS open-source software - no different from thousands of other open-source codeing efforts where contributions by CODERS of the project are strictly controlled...
- Tags: Wiki, open source, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS, software
- Discussion threads 2005-12-09
- IT's role in improving elections
- Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker released the final version of a bipartisan election reform report today. The two led a 21-member, privately funded Commission that offered 87 recommendations to strengthen the country's electoral system and build confidence in the political process. Of the...
- Tags: voter registration
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- Calif. requires manufacturers to meet national voting law requirements
- Manufacturers of e-voting machines will have to bear the cost of meeting the requirements of the Help America Vote Act HAVA, California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said last week. Vendors will have to sign contracts agreeing to the stipulation. “I want the people to get what they paid for,...
- Tags: Bruce McPherson
- Blog posts 2005-08-10
- Another broadband outage strikes Comcast
- Another broadband outage strikes ComcastDNSThe solution my friends run your own DNS server. I am on Comcast and have had no outages to speak of thanks to my own DNS serverEnron in DisguiseThis is somewhat reminiscent to rolling blackouts created by Enron. I have used Comcast now for three...
- Tags: Modems, Domain names, Network technology, Cable, Broadband Internet, DSL, broadband, Comcast Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-04-13
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