Archive for 'internet'

Dec200930

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The EC-GC spoof is toast, whodunnit?

(Screenshot snagged from straight.com.) I remember when Telus shut down thousands of websites to take down their union’s website. Serverloft might have just done the same. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article on the takedown of the Yes Men site. I did find an article from straight.com which claims to have the original complaint. The [...]

Oct200906

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So long SugarSync, hello Dropbox

I’ve had some problems with SugarSync. My Leopard install died, and I also reformatted my Windows 7 machine to go from RC1 to the copy of RTM I received through MSDNAA. Now I can’t add my “new” machines to SugarSync because I’m at my two machine limit. Worse still, I can’t have my “new” machine [...]

Jul200920

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You want extra storage, I want extra storage

I’ve used Dropbox for a while but now I’m considering switching I’ve switched to SugarSync. It’s partly because the client supports Windows Mobile and partly because of the current promotion. And partly due to file versioning. And mobile music streaming (once they support it in WiMo, it’s iPhone only at the moment.) Long story short, [...]

Jul200914

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Mozilla Weave in its current form, where it might go, where I want it to go

I’ve installed a recent version of Weave on my server. The server is 0.3, the client is 0.4. Weave is Mozilla‘s syncing protocol that aims to let Mozilla applications and extensions keep the same settings, saved passwords, histories, bookmarks and the like. This’d be useful for me because I use four computers on a regular [...]

May200912

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How control of the internet is split

I’m three quarters of the way through reading Who Controls the Internet by Tim Wu (yes, that Tim Wu) and Jack Goldsmith. It’s an interesting read that doesn’t require a technical background. It begins with the introduction of DNS back when it was a simple hosts.txt file and touches upon events as recent as the [...]

Mar200906

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Giving Ohpan beta a go

I discovered Ohpan by A Type Studios through Twitter and decided to give it a go. You can too if you check out their latest blog post to find one of the beta keys. The ones that work as of this writing are ATYPE1 and GENYTO. It’ll ask you to log in through an OAUTH [...]