Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it. Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, […]
Let’s take this account: After I installed Mac OSX (10.5.6), Roxio’s CD Spin Doctor started to show corrupted and incomplete waveforms. This problem has been reported several times on MacFixIt.com. I’m not sure if there is a fix to it, or who is responsible: Apple or Roxio. Has anyone on this forum experienced the problem, […]
Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into ‘excessive use’ warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there’s little to complain about on that front. Internet data caps generated controversy in […]
Time Warner Cable, stung by public reaction to the Internet data caps it is now trialing in several markets, has issued yet another public statement. Turns out, the problem here doesn’t rest with the caps but with the ‘press reports’ that ‘were premature and did not tell the full story.’ All of which perfectly explains […]
You finally checked your console log, and you don’t know what to make about these entries? Â Never fear… I’ll help explain it… Â Then you can be afraid of the big bad internet… The following is a sample of the console log of someone attempting to connect to “Power-mac-g5” via SSH, without having the proper username […]
It’s nice that Time Warner is offering a lesser priced Internet service, but isn’t that what RoadRunner Lite already does? And 1 Gb total download for this lesser level… I’m sorry, but it should be at least 2 Gb… “Our usage data show that about 30% of our customers use less than 1 GB per […]
Bowing to Pressure, Time Warner Alters Broadband Caps | Epicenter from Wired.com: “To accommodate lighter Internet users and those who need a lower priced option, we are introducing a 1 GB per month tier offering speeds of 768 KB/128 KB for $15 per month. Overage charges will be $2 per GB per month. Our usage […]
Hack the Planet:: “Wired: Time Warner Cable Earnings Refute Bandwidth Cap Economics,” In short, Time Warner Cable is not showing a loss, so how can they be charging too little for Internet services?