To divert, switch or bypass.
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- I'm done with GMail
- I'm done with GMailRE: I'm done with GMailI was going to go off on 'WTF are you on about?' but I read the 'inbox zero' page first & saw this paragraph,"Gmail's made me see the value of having very few actual folders for storing new and archived mail. It makes...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- Microsoft denies dual-boot Linux/Windows XO laptops are on its agenda
- Microsoft denies dual-boot Linux/Windows XO laptops are on its agendaMessage has been deleted.Message has been deleted.Interesting to say who is alienating whomWith respect to Intel it is interesting to see who was alienating whom. According to the founding CTO of OLPC, Mary Lou Jepsen, it would appear the motives...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Lanier's attack on open source religion
- Lanier's attack on open source religionWrongnessDo you mean "wrong" as in mistaken, or "wrong" as in immoral? I believe the former, but the belief of Richard Stallman and others that the free software model, as defined by Stallman, is the only legitimate development model has had many positive effects;...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?
- What's worse? The spam itself? Or how anti-spam solutions block legitimate mail?False positivesHmmm.I get more than 2,000 spam per day, and that's [b]after[/b] the DNSBL filtering weeds out most of it. The automated filters might flag an occasional false positive, but I know that I, personally, have been responsible...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- BlackBerry patent app describes Bluetooth headsets with less interference vulnerability
- A newly published BlackBerry Patent application calls for a Bluetooth headset with less vulnerability to RF electromagnetic interference.The Patent app is entitled: Wireless headset having improved RF immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from a mobile wireless communications device.A read of the Abstract gets us in the ballpark in terms...
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- To save Net Neutrality, here's why The Torrents must die- and then be reborn
- Two weeks ago, when fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou and I started having our lively debate about net neutrality legislation, George pointed out that because Bit Torrents and allied technology (a.k.a. "The Torrents") are such a giant bandwidth-suck on the Internet, that the huge amount of bandwidth they consume...
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Thermal grease and the MacBook
- Thermal grease and the MacBookno need to waitI guess we'll have to wait for the die hards to re-apply the grease on their MacBooks.it really doesn't matter what cpu and even what heatsink you're talking about, so we dont have to use a macbook specifically to know the end result...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-22
- Can you hear me now? Big Brother is listening
- In today’s threatcast Barrett Lyon and I resort to an air-gap technique to interview an engineer at ATT about the massive funneling of data and voice traffic into the NSA’s analysis centers. At first we looked into doing the interview directly with this guy, who we call Deep Packet,...
- Blog posts 2006-04-20
- Ethanol company gets backing from Gates firm
- Ethanol company gets backing from Gates firmGate$ is bailing out of SW industry!With Linux set to kill windoze, and a huge loss just arround the corner, Gate$ hopes that he can still salvage some of it's evil empire by investing in ethanol.We should never buy Gate$' gasoline and enjoy the...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-18
- Could technology tame future Katrinas and Ritas?
- Could technology tame future Katrinas and Ritas?Yes, but is it feasible?Perhaps, but is it feasible? We have to consider the logistics and feasibility of this. Not to mention real life testing: Due to the sheer number of variables in trying to predict the weather, computer models of weather patterns are...
- Discussion threads 2005-09-24
- Itanium--one step forward, one back
- Itanium--one step forward, one backThe Itanic is DOA...This piece of crap has three feet in the grave and one on the way. Put the poor thing out of it's misery and bury it for good. It's just another multi BILLION dollar Intel failure. Accept it and move on.specialised chips for...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-05
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