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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
Last month Nvidia disclosed that due to a manufacturing flaw, some of their laptop computer graphics processors and chipsets are overheating and failing. This is a brief summary of the story for those that missed it.
All of the flawed processors and chipsets are not failing but the frequency of …
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
What are they thinking at Mozilla? How could they devote time and effort to eye candy like new icons and drastically reworking the address bar when Firefox so often fails at printing.
How did printing get pushed to the bottom of the priority list?
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
Following with the theme of my recent posting, Some companies you can trust, and some you can’t, I ran across a blog posting from Alan Shimel of StillSecure (More frustrations with
web infrastructure) that details how GoDaddy and Typepad let him down in his time of greatest need.
Mr. …
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
Isn’t it always like this? Yesterday I wrote gushing nice comments about Netflix and today, I get sucked into their latest problem.
I’m a Netflix customer, but since I wasn’t expecting a DVD delivery in the last few days, I didn’t expect to be impacted by …
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
In his Open Road blog, Matt Asay was skeptical about some browser market share data because the sample audience was heavy on techies. The July 2008 stats for the site in question, W3Schools.com,
were:
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W3Schools.com |
| BROWSER |
USAGE |
| Internet Explorer |
52% |
| Firefox |
43% |
| Safari |
2% |
| Opera |
2% |
Into …
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
As is so often the case with networking problems, the firewall was source of the Verizon DSL problem I wrote about recently.
I had experienced problems making outbound connections at two Verizon DSL business customers and was told by another Verizon DSL customer that they too had a similar problem. …
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
The discussion to date about the latest DNS problem has been from the point of view of an end user, someone browsing Web sites. But there is another aspect to the DNS problem, one that concerns owners of Web sites.
This is discussed in a report from the IANA (Internet …
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
All companies have computer problems, how they deal with them separates the men from the boys.
Netflix
When I was away from home recently for an extended period of time, I tried to change the shipping address on my Netflix account. What should have been trivial became a problem because …
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Posted August 24th, 2008 by admin
(Credit: 2600)
The Last HOPE conference may have ended a couple weeks ago, but the audio lives on. The guys at 2600 just released MP3 recordings of the conference lectures. Each talk is available in both 16kbps and 64kbps.
A limited number of the radio broadcasts that originated during the …
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Posted July 24th, 2008 by admin
The day Windows XP SP3 was released I advised waiting a long time before installing it. In the three months since, I haven’t installed it on a computer that mattered to me. Today, I installed it on a computer that didn’t matter much, and it caused a problem. …
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