said by MPScan :

Oh yea, and anyone know anything about Dual WAN routers for combining a DSL and Cable connection?

said by MPScan :

In for the first time in a while on a Friday night ... so just watching the Celtics vs. Cavaliers game.. hoping we can whoop Cleveland's ass...

Oh yea, and anyone know anything about Dual WAN routers for combining a DSL and Cable connection?

said by MicrotoastXP :

I hate finals.

The co-chairs of the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus (IAPC) today released their "Priority Country List" today highlighting some of the most pressing problems confronting the American creative community in global commerce.

Joining China and Russia in "the ignominious three" is Canada which, notwithstanding numerous public announcements, has failed to join the rest of its partners in the developed world in modernizing its copyright laws to address the challenges -- and to seize the opportunities -- of the digital age.

"RIAA salutes the work of the IAPC, and in particular the IAPC co-chairs, Senators Biden and Smith, and Representatives Schiff and Goodlatte, for their efforts to shine a light on the practices of some of America's trading partners where they fail to meet international standards.

The IAPC also noted particular concerns in Mexico where piracy continues to dominate the landscape, and also and in Spain and Greece who have fallen behind European partners in the fight against piracy and where significant impediments to effective copyright protection persist -- both in the online and physical environment.

Over the past few weeks, things have heated up again in Lebanon, with the U.S.-backed government on one side and the Syrian-backed Hezbollah on the other.

To many U.S. observers, this might be just another case of tensions flaring up in the Middle East. Do not be fooled. This is all about telecommunications policy--and the design of secure, attack-resistant data networks.

In an effort to stop Hezbollah's guerrilla fighters from communicating, Israel has in the past jammed the cell phone towers in the Hezbollah-controlled areas in southern Lebanon. Eager to make sure that didn't happen again, Hezbollah has covertly built out a fiber-optic network throughout the areas it controls.

(Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah) said the government's decision to shut down Hezbollah's fiber-optic communications network was tantamount to a declaration of war. For the (central) government, the network represented an intolerable example of Hezbollah's efforts to set up an Iranian- and Syrian-backed state within Lebanon. Hezbollah justifies the network, which carried its communications during a 2006 war with Israel, as a vital security asset.

said by GeekGirl1 :

Crush those Pens! Not too thrilled with an afternoon game, they do better at night. Timonen may play. Hope Hatcher's 'attitude adjustment' on Ryan Malone (3rd period) set an example for Sunday.

Cable companies attracted more Internet subscribers than phone companies did in the first quarter, reversing a 3 1/2-year trend, according to a research report Thursday.

The 19 largest cable companies in the U.S. added 1.19 million broadband subscribers in the January-to-March period, according to a tally by Leichtman Research Group.

Phone companies added 1.01 million DSL customer in the same period, the report said.

Since the third quarter of 2004, phone companies had been adding subscribers faster than cable, closing in on cable's lead in total subscribers. But that lead is now widening, with cable companies having a total of 34.7 million subscribers compared with 29.5 million at the phone companies.

said by TK Junk Mail :

»news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_···e_vs_dsl
The announcements concerning cable's death has been greatly exaggerated. And as they roll out Docsis 3, cable should remain strong in the # of their internet users vs the telcos.

said by TK Junk Mail :

... and the programmer that created the XO's user interface and started his own company will try and sell his Sugar UI to other manufacturers like ASUS(maker of the Eee PC).

»www.news.com/8301-10784_3-994624···1_3-0-20
»wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page

said by MattE :

The sad part is, the OLPC interface was great.

The reality, having an OLPC with Windows XP will do more to advance 3rd world countries than some new laptop with an entirely irrelevant OS.

said by niblifar :

How and why is GNU/Linux entirely irrelevant? What does XP bring to third world countries that GNU/Linux does not?

said by MattE :

Do I really need to answer this?

said by factchecker :

Absolutely, because for someone who claims to be a network engineer in their site profile, calling Linux an "entirely irrelevant OS" stinks of not having a clue.

said by MattE :

I support 11 CentOS 5.1 servers ... with a few SuSe boxes thrown in, along with 3 Windows SQL boxes.

said by MattE :

The reality, having an OLPC with Windows XP will do more to advance 3rd world countries than some new laptop with an entirely irrelevant OS.

said by demoniacs :

anyone?

how about food stamps?