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Cisco announces the new CRS.
Mar 11th
After significantly hyped up language on Monday, with claims of a new product that will “forever change the Internet and its impact on consumer, businesses and governments,” at Tuesday’s press announcement, Cisco releases a new Carrier Routing System, CRS-3, thats ultimately nothing more than a speed improvement over the CRS-1.
Destiny Church Beat Up
Mar 8th
A discussion regarding a fake website that many are wrongly attributing as being a legitimate site belonging to Brian Tamaki and the Destiny Church. I think it is wrong for bloggers and media to attribute the site to Tamaki when it is easily verified to not be the case. I include an audio recording of my call to Destiny Church to verify exactly that.
Public response to Telecom problems unreasonable
Feb 27th
The hostility towards Telecom NZ in recent weeks has been completely disproportionate to the network issues they are suffering. Calm heads and cool tempers are needed right now, not disproportionate emotional responses.
Howto: Get variable substrings in Bat/Cmd scripts
Jan 31st
In this tutorial I show how to get substrings from environment variables in a DOS shell or Command Prompt environment. We use this to create log files with that days date in the file name using batch scripts. We will then create a script that can be scheduled to defrag a computers drives and output the results to the log file we specify.
Apple’s iPad starting off as the iPhone did
Jan 31st
Apple has announced their new iPad mobile tablet computer system. But its not without its controversy, including a trademark lawsuit already on the table just as there was over the iPhone with Cisco 2 years ago.
Oracle completes acquisition of Sun Microsystems
Jan 30th
Oracle has now completed their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The EU has given their green light. So now watch as Oracle attempts to take on IBM directly.
TelecomNZ’s XT network fully operational
Jan 30th
Telecom has restored full network services across all of the South Island. All affected XT customers should no longer have any issues with their cellular services.
Nokia’s new Ovi Maps strategy
Jan 30th
A brief look at the new features and functions of Nokia’s new Ovi Maps with free worldwide walking and driving navigation.
Authorities say don’t use IE
Jan 19th
French and German government authorities have released advisories recommending that all persons stop using any version of Internet Explorer and use an alternate browser.
An interview with the inventor of the cellphone
Mar 12th
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From CSPAN’s “The Communicators”, watch an interview with Martin Cooper, the man accredited as being the inventor of the cellphone. Whether you love or hate the device, they have become so much a part of modern society that it is almost crippling to be without one in general day to day life. Would you, or could you, give yours up?