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More on the Comcast-Level 3 spat
Folks are piling onto Comcast but I am thinking they are wrong. There's one section in this post that blows Level 3's arguments so full of holes swiss cheese looks solid: So what’s the issue? Level 3 told the world that Comcast had hit it up for more money in order...
Comcast: Pay Or No Play(Not Really)
Karl has this one nailed. Just because Comcast is the bigger of the two doesn't make it automatically wrong. L3 is trying to push the colocation costs of CDN traffic to Comcast and L3 got Called on it. Here's a post on NANOG I found that very well illustrates...
How To Detect A 64-bit Alureon Rootkit Infection
64 bit windows is now able to be compromised by rootkits. How To Detect A 64-bit Alureon Rootkit Infection.
This is Why You Don’t use Your Work Phone for Personal Stuff and Vice Versa
Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone : NPR.
Red Hat Releases RHEL 6
I've been waiting for this. There's some performance issues with this latest version while virtualized but Red Hat is very good about fixing regressions like this. I'm waiting the month or two it'll take for Centos to get their next version done for my future...
Further Explanation of Why We Need to Move to Postgres
This article says it better than i can. The GPL is actually now causing more issues than it solved. I would actually use the GPL to RESTRICT who can use my software and how..whereas the BSD license is truly a Free Open Source license. Internal Email on Why a...
Oracle’s hostility towards open source continues
You have to read both pages of the article...don't just scan it. Oracle has been slowly dismantling Sun's entire portfolio and they are continuing that trend with Java. Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit • The Register.
It’s time to move to postgres
InnoDB Storage Engine Dropped From Oracle MySQL Classic Edition. Oracle owns Innodb and now MySQL. It's time to move from Mysql to postgres. Not one of the mysql forks..but postgres. Oracle is beginning the squeeze of Sun's properties.
Banks Growing Dependence on Online Banking is Going to Cause INcrease in Cyber Thefts
Your Money or Your Business — Krebs on Security. Just read this individuals blog. There's entry upon entry of businesses getting malware tuned to logging their keystrokes for the purpose of accessing their online bank accounts. Just do a few things and you'll be...
More Casualties of Oracle’s Purchase of Sun
Slashdot Developers Story | 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org. Openoffice is for all intents dead. Libreoffice is where it's at which is what i am going to be trying out for possible reccomendations.
IN Support of Another NPO
I have been doing IT work as a volunteer for a local radio station WTHU for a few years now. Slowly but surely we have been moving along the technology track int he right direction. We have a stout server in wash state that handles our streaming. The costs for this...
Technolog – Unlimited wireless data is dead even thought he costs of transfer are at record lows
Read this article carefully. It was just a matter of time: As more Americans have become smart phone users, their appetite for Web video, music downloads and other data-intense apps on those phones has increased. And now it's time for some who are the heaviest users...
Server Donation Part 4
Well i got the servers in and really didn't want to wait for the 12u rack...mainly because it's not int he budget right now. I took one of the servers and have installed untangle on it. I now have 4 network cards in the thing. One is red(internet), one is blue(free...
Cellular Really Isn’t Worth it Anymore
Sprint just plain sucks. We've been customers for over 10 years..yet they say we've only been there for 8. That's not what irks me. What really irks me is the constant threat of account suicide I have to face anytime i call sprint for anything and they have to so...
Possible phone outage.
*IMPORTANT NOTE TO ECC CLIENTS* ECC is currently embroiled in a dispute with my phone provider Sprint-Nextel. ECC may loose phone service during this time. If you try to call and cannot get through please use the contact form on this site to reach me. My internet...
The Ars System Guide: September 2010 Edition
Ars Technica has a good system build series going for a long time. It's been on vacation but it's back and as good as ever. Take a gander. The Ars System Guide: September 2010 Edition.
SMB’s do not Have to Pay for A/V Anymore
I have severals tweaks with group policy that combined with a decent a/v malware is reduced to a small chance. Now that this is now true as soon as they open up the partner branding I have one client that uses avg, another that uses Kaspersky(which is currently...
Zimbra is about ready to go
I just need to get the final list of current mailboxses and get the DNS switched over. Staff meeting this Monday to see if they'll give the green light. I have found several extensions(called zimlets) that really extend the featureset of the Zimbra platform. I know...
More Donated Server News
Well I have gotten one of the donated servers fired up. It's a dual Xeon 2.0 GHZ HT with dual 36 gig 10 SCSI hdd's in raid 1. This is now running Untangle as the firewall. This frees up the Dell server (which is a Xeon 3.0 GHZ HT 2 gig dual 250 gigs SATA disks) box...
Intel’s walled garden plan to put control of ALL code in it’s hands
Ok folks. Here it comes. MS and Intel(Wintel is NOT dead) wants to have everything signed by it so that there's no more bad or malicious code. Of course this would put an end to the open source movement and several other industries in the software arena(which MS...
Verizon on it’s way to being sold?
Given the fact that verizon's total debt nearly matches it's market cap(not it's actual income which is lower) I'm betting Verizon either sells off all it's landlines AND fios lines and then buys out voda here in the us or they get bought out themselves. They...
Anandtech Begins a Major Upgrade Project
They are jumping right into virtualization. Their biggest concern is they are hitting the limits of their colos power envelope before they start getting charged. They are going to reduce their server footprint by about half and hopefully save some power as well....
Is Astaro Heading in the Wrong Direction?
I've been using Astaro since they were at version 4. I've noticed a disturbing trend. V4 was, in my opinion, the best version they have ever released. Version 5 was badly bug ridden upon released necessitating at least 2 updates before it was running decently. I...
How to Make sure you Aren’t Framed by Facebook
Yet another reason to not use Facebook. In their latest non-security decision others can now tag you as being somewhere even if you don't want them to...or if you aren't even there. Like this is a good idea. Here's how to turn it off(other than not using faceobok...
Major Server Donation: Step 1 Server 1
What are the needs that this server can address? At this time the church's website is hosted by powweb on their free package for non profits. Unfortunately their e-mail services are horrendously unreliable. We have a business class internet connection with a static...