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Still waiting for the Googlezon

Back in 2004, there was an eight minute video (written by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson) that among other things claimed that 2008 was the year that Google merged with Amazon forming Googlezon. As someone who loves Amazon and its Prime service, I thought this was a pretty nifty idea. First off, if you haven’t…

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Tech

Tethering my AT&T Tilt to the Eee PC

Car Geekery As John was behind the wheel this past Saturday, I had many hours to burn; thus, I decided to try my hand at getting tethering working. I was attempting to tether my AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser II) with my Eee PC 1000 running Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. When I was buddy breathing (IE Charging)…

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Linux

Let’s rebrand ‘Internet’ to ‘Entirnit’

They obviously sound completely the same, and “Entirnit” is obviously much cooler and can be text’d easily as “ent” rather than “int” which obviously makes no sense because why would you be talking about Integers. All mockery aside, I’ve lost the last of the remaining respect I had for the Sci-Fi channel, which truth be…

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MKV’s & Ubuntu: Redux

For all (5) of our regular blog followers, you already know that I’ve installed Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Alpha on to my Eee PC 1000. It is running a Low-Power Intel Atom (LPIA) processor at 1.6Ghz. It is not exactly a fast little devil, but it does a decent job for most things you’d want to…

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Comcast sells you cable internet for $12 an hour

I recently caught a press release from Comcast that I thought was interesting, “Comcast to Roll Out Extreme 50 Mbps High-Speed Internet Service in Bay Area“. It really caught my eye because, I live in the area, so theoretically I could call them up and have 50 Mbps internet by the end of the month….

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Dell Community Forum Terms of Service Violation

I know I’m an angry person and I can rant and rave a good bit when in the mood. Though when I was posting on the Dell blog I honestly wanted an answer so I was trying to play very nice. I never even swore! Here’s an email (Verbatim) I just received care of Dell….

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