A cable (perhaps several) cut by one or more ships anchored off Egypt in the Mediterranean has reduced Internet access in to India and other countries in the Middle East to a crawl. The quote in the article from the Register says the services may be out for 10-15 days. With so much work [...]
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We’ve got a bunch of old computer stuff laying around and I have been lazy about getting rid of it. I want to do the right thing, of course, by recycling this stuff. Among other things we have 3 old CRTs taking up a lot of space. Well, it turns out Staples will accept [...] There are a lot of open source projects that are starting to attract big dollars. Drupal has recently pulled in $7 million and MySQL was just purchased by Sun for $1 billion. And now WordPress has attracted $29.5 million. This is an exciting transition for these entities that have produced tremendous software that we [...] I didn’t go to Macworld, darn it. But I did read stuff and watched the keynote. The new MacBook Air is cool looking but way too expensive. I don’t own an IPhone so the new stuff for that didn’t hold much interest. I just got a Tivo so I’m not about to switch to [...] After the City of Eureka postponed acting on a wireless network feasibility study, partly, according to Councilmember Mike Jones, because there was no crowd shouting for it (although several speakers voices very strong arguments and only one person spoke in opposition), a bunch of people turned out at the Planning Commissions meeting to speak [...] Last night the City of Eureka put off approval of funds to conduct a feasibility study for developing a wireless network. It’s the right approach in that the study would provide necessary information on what’s possible, how to create it and how to sustain such a network. Due partly to an earlier decision in [...] A while back I wrote about the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program. Originally intended to be sold in third-world countries, the company has announced they will make the computers available to poor children in the U.S. working with the state governments. Back when the computers were available to be purchased by individuals there [...] The last two public meetings by Redwood Coast Connect willbe held this week. The goal of these meetings is to gather information on broadband usage and accessibility to try and aggregate demand to expand services throughout the region. Tuesday, January 8, the meeting will take place in Redway at the Healy Senior Center. Thursday, [...] It’s sometimes nice to have a soap box. Suddenlink’s head of technology for the western region got wind of my blog post about the problems I had with Tivo and Suddenlink (probably through Google’s News Alerts service). He followed a link to our web site and called my office yesterday. I went over what [...] I was going to write something about our little adventure at the Headwaters Trail yesterday, but my wife Marianne beat me to the punch. Here, in essence, is a letter she sent in to the Times-Standard editor, somewhat in the vein of their Toasts and Roasts format: Toasts to the Bureau of Land Management [...] |
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