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DailyTech Main News FeedA lot of people don’t understand the downfalls of buying music from places like iTunes and Yahoo. You see, their music is specially formatted with what is called Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology whose goal is to prevent people from listening to music they do not have rights to. While in concept it is a good idea, in practice, it only hurts the law abiding citizen.
Posted: January 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Please, just don’t do it – especially if you’re a Windows user. Ignore that pesky recommendation you get from Apple when upgrading or installing iTunes.
Posted: March 27th, 2008 under Tech.
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FolderShare is one of those hidden gems out there that I can’t live without. Originally developed by a company called ByteTaxi, it offers real time synchronization of files between machines via a private peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Microsoft bought ByteTaxi, Inc. in 2005 and immediately started offering the software for free.
Posted: January 19th, 2008 under Tech.
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Everyone should backup their data periodically! I mean everyone!! I know, it’s one of those things that you just can’t be bothered with but there are numerous studies that indicate that between 1.5% to 6% of drives will fail in a given year (i.e. Google’s paper titled Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population). Those odds really aren’t that good! As such, I implore everyone to backup periodically and this is where Mozy comes in. Read more »
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Tech.
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Now most people won’t give this a second thought but this is just another example of how privacy is slowly but surely going to the wayside… It seems that various combinations of printers and drivers print microscopic identifiers that are unique to a given printer. Take the original printed document and you could trace it back to the specific printer used.
Read more at the EFF – http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/
On the subject, two books you may want to check out:
Posted: March 12th, 2007 under Social.
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Updated – March 12, 2007. I filed a complaint with the BBB against Shuttle on this issue as they were unresponsive but I’ve decided not to pursue this further. Shuttle is still wrong but it seems that there is also an issue with Microsoft Vista, Nvidia Nforce 3 chipsets, AGP Video Cards, and AMD Dual Core Processor combination (aka Vista Code 43 error.) that may not get resolved. If you have this combination, you can either run Vista in single core mode or get the performance of a PCI Video Card with both cores enabled. As such, there is no meaningfull way to upgrade this machine anymore. I’m just astonished across the board at Shuttle for not standing behind their products and then pile on Nvidia’s lack of support for the Nforce 3 chipset in Vista.
Ughh!!! Upgrading your computer is suppossed to be fun (at least for me). You buy the new parts, you install them, and sit back and enjoy the upgrade. Not so much with my Shuttle SN95G5 Small Form Factor (SFF) PC.
Posted: January 5th, 2007 under Hardware, Tech.
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Wow! and it’s about time! Real Broadband Access for the Home is finally here! Verizon FIOS
Finally, internet service that advertises 5mb down/2mb up and delivers. See the results for yourself at DSL Reports for Verizon FIOS. Response times are excellent (sub 10ms) and this is sustained bandwidth not peak!
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Posted: August 4th, 2006 under Tech.
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Just posting a warning to stay away from the company “IDS Landscape Construction” (aka “Irrigation Design Services” and “IDS Landscaping”). The company is located in Northern Virginia (Sterling, VA to be exact) and primarily installs in ground sprinkler systems but also does decks, patios, ponds, etc.
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Posted: June 6th, 2006 under Personal.
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– Update June 1 2006 –
We sold our beautifull home. Good luck to the new owners!
Side note – the housing market in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area is definitely in a down turn. Anyone trying to sell – don’t expect anywhere near what people were getting in 2005 — expect $50k to $100k less IMHO for similar homes.
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Posted: December 28th, 2005 under Personal.
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Some quick ramblings from me…
Why is this news? Well, I was the person responsible for getting Network Solutions off of it’s old InterNIC system to the newer WorldNIC system and then finally build and migrate everyone to what exists today. What exists today is a very robust Account Management system that meets the needs of our customers. One that has been doing what GoDaddy just implemented from the beginning – and I like to think in no small way thanks to me.
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Posted: October 18th, 2005 under Tech.
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