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I’ve been using the iPhone for a few days now and one of the things that strikes me most is how many people want to see and play with my new phone. I was having dinner last night with my family and a couple stopped to get a demonstration of the phone from me. On [...]

OK - so I went against all better judgment tonight and I went and picked up an iPhone. I must say - it’s pretty slick.

I swung by a store earlier tonight after work and there was a long line so I decided to head home and go back out a few hours later. [...]

I must admit - this deal would confuse me in many ways. Rackable’s value proposition of lower power and cooling through DC powered systems really doesn’t hold water like it used to - primarily because of the lower thermal footprint that the new generation of servers and processors have. Plus - Rackable has [...]

The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has preliminarily adopted the DomainKeys Identified Mail proposal being pushed by Yahoo, Cisco, Sendmail, and PGP Corporation. Assuming the draft (RFC4871 for all my fellow geeks) is formally approved end users could (finally) have a powerful tool that theoretically could reduce the amount of SPAM they receive in [...]

I read about this company on Techcrunch - their name is Cellswapper and they offer a service that allows people to swap their cell phone contracts (for a $15 charge). I’m reading through the website right now, but their timing is impeccable given Apple’s announcement of the iPhone at CES the other day. [...]

if this article is to be believed, then soon FIOS users will enjoy some really fast speeds…  I have to say that I’m personally disgusted (I used to be a FIOS user in Dallas, but here in Houston I’m stuck with 5Mbps) but happy for my FIOS using friends.

Interesting stuff… Hitachi has announced it’s new hard drives leading up to the CES show next week. Quoting the article:
With a price of $399, the Deskstar 7K1000 comes in at an attractive price for consumers. That works out to $0.40 per GB–a competitive per-gigabyte cost for a hard drive today, and not much of [...]

Late last year, I began searching for a spam filtering appliance to offer to our customers. I’m sure everyone has heard one of the advertisements for the Barracuda spam firewall on the radio (God knows I have - ad nauseum) - well we’ve used this appliance internally and I have to say that I’ve [...]

My wife was lucky enough to be at a Wal Mart before Christmas when a PS3 arrived in the store. After 3 intercom calls announcing that they had a PS3 available, and if anyone was interested in it she decided to walk back to the electronics section and see what was up. When [...]

So I’ve searched high and low for a good firmware to run on my wireless router. I ran Talisman for about a year - and was relatively happy with it, but then I stumbled on this little gem: Tomato.
If you’ve got a Linksys router (I think the firmware is usable on other types of [...]