by wwarren | Dec 13, 2010 | AMD, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source
BOINC FAQ Service. BOINC FAQ Service. Ever wondered what all those acronyms are that are behind your CPU description? I’ll try to put them down in this FAQ. I am missing a few. Sorry for that, I’ll keep on hunting though. 🙂 To see the options on your CPU,...
by wwarren | Dec 5, 2010 | Internet
If you find you can’t surf on your Comcast connection they are having intermittent issues with their DNS server. DNS is the server that translates www.hotmail.com to the actual ip address. when those have issue you can’t surf. Comcast DNS is having...
by wwarren | Dec 1, 2010 | Internet
Let’s get the Comcast hating blinders off. The Real Story Behind the Comcast-Level 3 Battle: Tech News «.
by wwarren | Nov 30, 2010 | Internet
I found this great nugget on the nanog list again. You can read my opinions about this tussle here and here. In a message written on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:12:23PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > The part that I find most interesting about this current...
by wwarren | Nov 30, 2010 | Internet
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...
by wwarren | Nov 30, 2010 | Internet
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...
by wwarren | Nov 24, 2010 | Security, Security Alerts
64 bit windows is now able to be compromised by rootkits. How To Detect A 64-bit Alureon Rootkit Infection.
by wwarren | Nov 23, 2010 | Apple, Hardware, Security
Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone : NPR.
by wwarren | Nov 10, 2010 | Linux, Open Source, Vendors
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...
by wwarren | Nov 10, 2010 | Linux, Open Source
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...
