Month: March 2009
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CRTC Launches Online Consultation on Net Neutrality
As I discovered onMichael Geist’s blog, the CRTC is ofering Canadians the opportunity speak out on Net Neutrality in advance of their hearings on ISP network management practices. I had this to say, in the Impact on User Experience section:
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Firefox Renders Like Crap
The proof is in the pudding… The middle image was rendered by Firefox 3 on Windows XP and it looks all washed out. To the left is the original RAW processed to JPG in CS3 Bridge and the right most picture is in Safari for Windows. Which actually looks the most like the original… The…
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You Dirty Remote Access Tool.
Someone, in the PRoC, has apparently manage to shanghai thousands of computers connected to the InterTubes and use them as an information gathering /surveillance device. In the gool ol’ days of the Cold War, they simply called it spying. The GhostNet, as it is called by the (Canadian) guys who uncovered it, was using…
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Road to OTA Digital TV – Step ONE
A while back, YULBlogger, Laurent Lasalle posted an excellent heads up guide to getting Digital and HDTV Over The Air. The Brits call it Free to View or Free to Air and the Americans still don’t know what to do with it even though their cut over deadline came and went, but got pushed over…
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PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 1)
So we made the leap. Our HP Pavilion A1211N, which admittedly was bought off the shelf because it was at the right price-point, finally died a sudden and graceless death after three years of faithful (ok two good years, one not so good) service. Note: both the author and all members of the household have…
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GMail cheat sheet is now on CheatSheets.org
Inspired by the vi/vim graphical cheat sheet I wrote a GMail Keyboard Shortcut graphical cheat sheet for Google’s GMail (using Google Docs off course).
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You NEED a dSLR to Take Great Shots!
Photo taken by the Burg and permission has been granted to use this shot under Creative Commons. It’s funny but I tend to disagree. As a kid I used to walk around using my hands to frame a rectangle that way I would know what to take a picture of once I got my hands…
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Google moves towards evil?!
Has any one else noticed how the favicons of our two favourite adversaries look quite similar?!
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Bonuses for AIG
Rex Murphy did a bit on AIG last night after the news. I can’t find it online though – I guess the internet is slacking off.
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Where has the workmanship gone?
So I’m minding my business, reading through 2fatdads.com, when I stumble upon a post by Johnny Canuck detailing his awesome satellite dish rig. I was instantly transported to the summer of 2006, when we left Bell and went all in with Videotron’s version of the triple play offering. We already were using them for their…