This was amusing to see scroll across my desk upon waking up this morning. The CRTC has issued a warning to Rogers in the ongoing dispute over its alleged throttling of World of Warcraft. The Commission says it is not persuaded the issue has been completely resolved and gives the company until July 25th to … Read more
I just got the final word. FSU’s tech lead, Sherry, told me this. We’ll let an XP system on the network. But we don’t officially support it anymore. they won’t work on, or provide support for, a system that is not 1. up to date. 2. under warranty. 3. does not have a LEGAL COPY … Read more
So the following in yesterday’s top tech tidbits newsletter made the blog go balistic. 1) For a review of the Ariadne GPS program for the iPhone, read the blog post at http://stickbear.me/archives/929 How’d I find out? I saw this, in my statistics for yesterday. Jul 7: 131 visitors, 164 actions. and wondered what was up. … Read more
throughout today, it came to light that SW Cast had been shut down by Sound exchange but their’s a lot of wining that this is not valid. Firstly, have the original post that sparked this > SWCast shut down > Posted on April 19, 2011 by David Oxenford SoundExchange Claims Credit for Shutting Down Webcaster … Read more
so as a long time tech geek, I have this bad habbit of keeping up with firmware upgrades for the various blind products, pacmate braillenote family of products and the braille sense family of products once distributed by GWMicro now sold and distributed by their manufacturer hims INC. It’s come to my attention that the … Read more
so I’ve been eyeballing these iPhone tthings since voice over now comes built into the phone. I got to play with a 3gs thanks to a friend I got to meet while in fitchburg. Who ever knew a phone could survive a 1000 foot drop from a moving airplane. Shows you apple’s durability, maybe? Tweet … Read more
Once again, we here in canada proove we have a better handle on this digital thing than the united states. We took the year by storm with 18% growth over the united states impressive 1%. Oh, wait, it gets better. In 2009, our digital growth was 38%, and the united states was… what’s that? only … Read more
I won’t reidderate my view on bandwidth caps. this person over here, known as my roommate, does it quite well for me. while covering the crtc’s ruling and simarily blasting the hell outta of it, for what that’s worth. Now, the federal government has simarily told the CRTC, either you recynd your ruling or we’ll … Read more
so this blog, among other things, including e-mail, is now hosted on dream host and a couple nights ago, their entire network infristructure went down for scheduled maintenance, and this was posted on their status twitter. DreamHost Status: Network Maintenance: Friday, January 28th – 22:00 through Saturday, January 29th 02:00 PST http://dhurl.org/1io at 2:49:38 PM … Read more
When I purchase something, I expect to be able to do whatever I want with it, whenever I want, on whatever freakin device I so choose, right? Up to now, kindle users couldn’t do this. It’s a long standing given that I hate DRM, especially when on the rare off chance I purchase something, that … Read more