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| Thursday, January 31, 2002 |
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You can help J.D., or you can turn the page... 
At least one reason to like HP
| | Zem points to a report that HP will pack ad-blocking and anti-spyware software from Zero Knowlege on its Pavailion PCs. |
Proof that the FCC is a bunch of cranks
| | A Seattle radio station has been fined for airing a discussion about "whether penises can be used to lift or pull objects" it says here. |
Wanna see a tough customer?
| | Check this out. (Thanks to Carin for the link.) |
Layering interstructure
| | For some reason I thought |
Penguin spotting
| | Eric Norlin weighs in on What's Happening With Linux. I have a lot of thoughts about that, of course. In fact, I'm working on something right now. Look for it over at the Linux Journal site (I'll put up a direct link when it's up). |
| | Meanwhile check out Raising the Red Flag on the same site. I'm interested in learning more about what's happening with Linux in China (and the rest of Asia as well). |
| | Red Flag's English site is here. The link to it was broken when I wrote the piece. |
From the Dept. of Corrections
| | Yesterday I had a bad link to my new other blog, Skywave. Duh. |
| | [Duh, cont'd.: It was still wrong until Dave Ely's email set me right a few minutes ago. His Radio blog is here. Many others also clued me in. Most grateful.] |
Narrowcasting
| | Deanland finally looks good on a Mac. Thanks, Dean! (In the past, Deanland manifested about 2000 pixels wide on a Mac. Not sure why) |
A fine fucking tune, too
| | To answer one of Vincent's questions there... No, it didn't have anything to do with Cox being a BigCo. I've bashed some BigCo utilities pretty hard. Verizon, for example. It had to do with the human beings I've dealt with at Cox, which number quite a few. As I said before, their customer service has been superlative in the past. What went wrong here was mostly ExciteAtHome's fault for imagining it could fund undercharging for a utility by making money in the online advertising business, and going out of business when it failed. ("Here's an idea: sell internet service to the cable providers at below cost because we're gonna make our big money selling banners on our portal!") Cox's marketing error — sending out that silly box — was an excusable example of Marketing as Usual. |
| | As mass-broadband goes, Cox HSI is at the good end of the spectrum, even with the slow DNS business I encountered last night. Want a sucky system? Try SBC's, which is now PPPOE. What's more silly and annoying than an always-on Internet service that dials up anyway? |
Cox quakes
| | I think Cox is still shaking down its new network. From about 4 to 9PM yesterday it took forever for a Web page to find itself. I'm sure that meant stressed DNS servers, because speed tests at DSL Reports on all 3 of my main machines came in at close to 3 Mb down and 300 Kb up. What else would explain taking forever between "sending request" and "receiving..."? |
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