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Tag: Internet

  • Internet Plumber

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    Johnny Canuck
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    A friend dropped of his Windows XP laptop with a virus on it. Been trying to get him back up an running all week. Looks like a clean re-install is the only solution. Somedays, I feel like such a plumber! Funny that I don’t get paid half as well as one though. (Thanks to Stuart001UK…

  • The Skype SPIM/SPAM Has to Stop!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Are you getting tired of these request too? I’ve had just about enough of it and seriously thinking of dropping Skype altogether for good. The problem is not about one occasional spam message. The real problem is what they are not doing to protect it’s users.

  • CRTC Rules Bell Can Still SUCK!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    It’s officially time to say: “The HELL with BELL!” And the CRTC can now become just one more corrupt government agency that is completely out of touch with the industry it is set to oversee and protect. Bell Canada Inc. is not breaking any laws by slowing Internet speeds and will be allowed to continue…

  • Free To Air, GoodBye Express-Vu!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    I have had a tumultuous relationship with Bell Express-Vu since day one. In fact, my relationship with Express-Vu is not all indifferent from my overall relationship with Bell. A company that is so out of touch with it’s core user base that it openly engages in practices that drive users away in droves, until at…

  • Bell GPS-Gate Update

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    Johnny Canuck
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    It would appear that Bell has decided to back off it’s initial plan to thwart 3rd party access to the GPS radio on it’s BlackBerry units. Who knows if this blog, The Boy Genius Reports or the insane amount of negative posts on Howard Forums had anything to do with it. Maybe the Bell legal team finally realised that…

  • Bell is now crippling GPS on BlackBerry

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    Johnny Canuck
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    This is a story that is making it way around the tech crowd a lot this but has not gotten a lot and lot of media attention elsewhere yet. The Boy Genius Report Blog reports that: Over the next few weeks, Bell may be increasing the GPS lock time (2-10 minutes) and resolution (1-2.5KM) of…

  • Outrageous DoS attack on Revision3 Servers in the name of security?

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    Johnny Canuck
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    This weekend Revision3 was hit hard by a DoS that deprived me and countless others from enjoying Veronica Belmont, Patrick Norton, and the Digg Crew’s awesome and FREE as in Beer HD content. The culprits turned out to be a pretty shady vigilante group called Media Defender whose past customers have hired these web mercenaries…

  • The CBC weighs in on Net Neutrality: ISP’s still Suck!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Bell and other Canadian ISP seem to have hit some type of nerve in The Great White North that is usually reserved to bad Hockey fights, bashing Celine Dion and corporate America messing with sacred Tim Horton’s pastries. So I was watching last night’s big game between the Habs and the Sens and scouring Twitter…

  • Bell throttling P2P and Bit Torrent Protocols: Everyone Loses!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Bell Sympatico, The Great White North’s largest internet service provider for consumers and reseller has officially and openly started packet shaping it’s network traffic to curb the effect of peer to peer file sharing and Bit Torrent protocols. Which is just ridiculous and down right wrong. ISP’s have to stop acting like Cyber police officers…