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FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality

August 30th, 2009

Welcome back!Recent news is that the FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, informed Congress that the FCC intends to “keep the Internet free of increased user fees based on heavy Web
traffic and slow downloads.”
I seriously doubt the FCC’s ability to enforce much of anything but at least it’s a start. For example take a look back [...]

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 Powered by Max Banner Ads You’d think that it’d be the dead-simplest thing in the world. You set your computer’s BIOS to boot from a USB device, plug in a flash drive with the OS you’d like to boot from on it and restart the computer.
Funny thing is that it isn’t that simple. I [...]

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 Powered by Max Banner Ads First it works, then it doesn’t. One day it’ll boot, the next it won’t. This laptop has so far been quite an adventure. Even when it does boot, there’s this nearly undefinable feel to it that tells me that it’s days are numbered and that every time it [...]

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When Bifocals Are Not Enough

August 23rd, 2009

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I don’t honestly thing that I’ve ever had 20/20 vision. Back when I was six years old I got my first pair of glasses which I was supposed to wear for reading. By the time I was twelve years old I had a much stronger prescription and I was [...]

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 Powered by Max Banner Ads I was browsing through the search logs this morning and noticed that there were several searches with the query: “how to change home page on firefox” , “change firefox homepage” and a few others related so I thought I’d write up a quickie tutorial showing how to do it.
It’s actually a [...]

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