29 Nov
2009

Playground of the Giants

I’ve been giving megacorporations a whole lot of thought lately. In this article, i’ll be looking at three of them: Microsoft, Google and Apple. First, let’s delve in to the big G, Google. Google is a verb. How many companies have ever become a verb? “Google that.”. There’s a whole lot of buzz around Google, […]

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22 Nov
2009

Expiring veterans/money

This is just a bit of news i picked up elsewhere, it’s probably in all the major news outlets here, so i won’t bother with sources. Check any magazine. There’s 87 million euros (that’s like a kazillion u.s. dollars) of money that’s been collected by different organisations to benefit the veterans of our wars. There […]

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18 Nov
2009

Xbox 171109 Update

Microsoft seeded the the Fall update to their Xbox 360 gaming console. The update was significant in that it finally offers the possibility to “rent” movies from the Zune store (i guess in the US they have like Netflicks or whatever as well?). So naturally, i was a bit excited. One could even say anxious, […]

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5 Nov
2009

Nuevos Hardwareos

A client was generous enough to donate me an old laptop to play with. It’s a Compaq EVO N610C. You may remember if from about 8 years ago, or so? It’s got that silver wlan antenna thingy behind the screen? Yeah. That one. Anyway, it’s a nice piece of work despite being old. It’s a […]

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2 Nov
2009

Modem Maintenance Vol 2.

So, the story continues. I’m seriously beginning to suspect the damn Linksys. It’s gotta be the Linksys. B kindly provided me with a Zyxel 660HW, and a Telehell 501, out of which the Telewell works fine. Zyxel seems fucked somehow. Telewell handshakes at about 10/2, which is roughly the same as before (with the linksys) […]

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