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Fatal Error: Your PC's down. Now what?
11/25/2008 5:35:52 PM
Here are some first steps to pull yourself out of the blue-screen blues.
"The computer and I don't like each other," Marcia C. Brier says, "and it makes me anxious when it doesn't work." SirPopper: "I didn't know what a B.I.O.S. is I thought how can this be alive in the computer." Braintrain!
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Google WiFi/Secure
9/20/2005 10:32:33 AM
Google plans own WiFi service — company Web site
LONDON (Reuters) – Online search leader Google is preparing to launch its own wireless Internet service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company's Web site on Tuesday.
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GoogleNet, dark fibre…
9/20/2005 10:04:44 AM
From engadget: Man, this whole GoogleNet thing is getting sticky and suspicious and interesting—a real page turner, if you ask us. So if you recall, we reported before that Google was supposedly buying up unused fiber and spare backbone bandwidth like crazy—enough to move some serious, serious data. Then yesterday our man Om pointed out IP Democracy’s report that Google has been further reviewing bids for building a nationwide DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) fiber network, one theoretically capable of terabit speeds, and at the bargain basement price of under $100 million—apparently this thing could even be up and running in months, according to their sources. Yes, we know how crazy-conspiracy-theory this stuff sounds sounds, but where it goes from here is increasingly less questionable. So even though Goog can easily snap up all this backbone bandwidth, they’re left with the last mile issue, hence speculation of a WiMax or WiFi network. Now today it’s come out that yes, they actually have a piece of working WiFi VPN software to download, and that it “is only available at certain locations in the San Francisco Bay Area�€?—coincidence that that’s where they happen to have a test bed of location-tracking WiFi hotspots to provide Google-local based ads on top of free WiFi access? And knowing Google, of course they’d want VPN software running on “GoogleNet,�€? what kind of PR nightmare would it be for them having millions across the nation getting online on open WiFi on account of the “do no harm�€? company? Ordinarily we might say this is all kind of crackpot speculation, but these pieces keep falling together and it’s kind of freaking us out.
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Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
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Note to self: Catch Saturday Night Live reruns on Arena
9/20/2005 9:49:36 AM
Ten to midnight and I'm watching the only show worth watching on TV. Brilliantly bizarre American (or NY) humour. Don't miss it on Foxtel basic… not worth it otherwise…
Nightly rant, day after
9/18/2005 8:06:14 PM
I wanted to get into the swing of posting every day. So, I'm just reporting that everything is going well. Very nice to work with colleagues who I can relate to.
Another thing I have been thinking about is Google Desktop's Sidebar. Not the tech itself, but one feature: random photo slideshow. It is so nice to have it running at the side of the browser. Trawling through five years of photos and splashing them in a small window that rotates as I browse the web or email brings back a lot of memories of my two young boys and our first years in Australia.
Sometimes little featuressuch as this make using a computer seem amazing again.
Any small triumphs in computing to report, wordpressers?
