Tag: Techcrap
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Thank you all for the responses regarding our troubles with Qwest- it’s nice to know that others would have been just as frustrated as we were. If nothing else, it certainly shows the “spirit of service” we can expect. Not much else to add, except that the glorious time of year known as Fall has…
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The Dude has an arrangement with his employer that after he completes an “on-call” cycle, he works from home the following day. It’s a nice informal little perk, a way to recognize that work is intruding on your personal life. Of course, working from home means just that, working– which in The Dude’s line of…
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The Dude has been busy preparing for the annual ritual of examination so that he can show the powers that be that he’s qualified to hunt highwaymen on Ye Olde Informatik Oxtrail. Continuing education indeed. The upshot of this is that there hasn’t been a lot of joy in Mudville the last few weeks, as…
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Looks like some Highwaymen got to T-Mobile. Assuming that the information is legit (and The Dude doesn’t have insider information one way or the other) it appears that at least 500 internal servers were compromised, and have been for some time, giving the miscreants access to internal databases, financial documents, etc. They claim to have…
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Happy Memorial Day to all the USAians in the audience! The Dude wishes you a relaxing day of reflection, remembrance, and good grillin’. As some of my faithful readers are aware, The Dude has been on a quest for software to interact with Twitter, and here is his latest find: as of version 1.4 beta 1…
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The Dude occasionally loves to spend a few hours just rockin’ out with the music at Case del The Dude, and with the advent of Ye Olde Informatik Oxtrail, the options are limitless- besides streaming the local iTunes library to the stereo, there are a couple of other applications that come in handy- Airfoil which…
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So with this whole Twitter thing, the new hotness that all the cool kids are doing, it turns out there are about a bazillion different methods that people are using to interface with it. This is in addition to using your phone, or the actual web interface. Crazy. The Dude perhaps is a little old…
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The Dude ran across this while stalking highwaymen on Ye Olde Informatik Oxtrail. Not telling anyone to cease using it, just be aware of your electronic surroundings just like you are when you’re walking around on the streets…
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Given the current economic climate, how many readers have dumped a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line in favor of VoIP through cable or DSL and a cell? I know Jaysan is in that camp, but he’s a tech fiend. 🙂 This discussion has been had with a couple co-workers, and the consensus is that…
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How much more snow do you think we’ll get? 😉 The AKO is napping, Attila is playing, Deogee is laying down, and The Dude is typing away on his trusty computer. Periodically, just like physical spring cleaning, The Dude conducts a digital spring cleaning of rearranging files, deleting or archiving old information- basically just making…