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Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming (not so soon)

Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming not so soonoh yea! Makes it that much easier to wire tvs into the bath and above the.bed. heheThe whole house will be penetrated! :)

Tags: Wireless LANs, TV & Home Theater, cable set-top box, not-so, set-top box, Wi-Fi, cable

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Bottled water and baby bottles: maybe not so good

Bottled water and baby bottles: maybe not so goodIf given directly to small mammals in large quantities.If you follow the trail to the original research, it was actually a study on mice who were given large quantities of the chemical directly.As far as I know, however, the studies on humans...

Tags: baby bottle, Bottled Water, not-so

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

Microsoft's $235 million PIL is not so bitter

Microsoft's $235 million PIL is not so bitterMicrosoft is a for profit entity...whose only agenda is to maximize the value of its stock.Philanthropy with any expected return is not philanthropy.Summing upMicrosoft's "charitable" contributions are the same sorts of things that other companies add to their marketing budget: promoting their products...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Free trade, Microsoft Corp., PIL, not-so

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Telecommuting not so great for those left in office

Telecommuting not so great for those left in officeOne word, "Envy" nt.Email and Blogs have to be for everyone.The USA just did not ensure that the infrastructure for commuting was maintained. We see this so clearly after the Mississippi bridge collapse and Ferry Boat issues in Washington...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Telecommuting not-so, telecommuting, not-so, job, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

McAfee: Watch out for 'island-hopping' spam

McAfee: Watch out for 'island-hopping' spamWhy don't we just...Go with a registration of ALL email addresses... period! And FINE the heck out of an ISP not validating their email...not so fast..Who would fine them. i.e. define "we". Who would collect the money, and what would be done...

Tags: e-mail, not-so, McAfee Inc., Best Bets

Discussion threads 2006-11-01

Cool Codes

Cool CodesCheck Robt Cringely's column this weekI had a professor once who talked about synchronicity, where a new idea suddenly emerges from many seemingly unrelated directions simultaneously. Robert X Cringely (at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060901.html) was on this week about a St. Louis, Missouri-based company named Appistry that seems to do exactly what...

Tags: Processors, processor, Appistry, not-so, developer, Cringely

Discussion threads 2006-09-03

Private domains not so private?

Private domains not so private?RE: Private domains not so private?in other words you and your information is a comodity they can sell or use against you anytime they wish. This is the legacy of modern corporations and the abuse of the power vested in these corps.And you people still blindly...

Tags: Backups, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Sheeple, domains not-so, not-so, Naivety, Poet

Discussion threads 2005-08-15

Report: Cost of phishing not so high

Report: Cost of phishing not so highCost of phishing not so high a $150K to $500K nuisancedepending on who you listen to. The TowerGroup would like us to think phishing is no big deal. I mean gosh it is only $150K and the financial instituttions absorb...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, phishing, phishing not-so, not-so

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

Red Hat predicts half its sales will be abroad

Red Hat predicts half its sales will be abroadThat's great!I'm happy that Linux is doing so well. I used it 10 years ago and it was much better than Windows 3.1. I recently installed it on a 750MHz computer to act as a Samba/print server and it was dead simple...

Tags: Linux, Sales strategy, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, not-so, LINUX IS, Red Hat Inc., sales

Discussion threads 2004-10-26