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  • You Dirty Remote Access Tool.

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    Burg42
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    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…

  • Road to OTA Digital TV – Step ONE

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    Johnny Canuck
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    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…

  • PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 1)

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    steve_mtl
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    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…

  • GMail cheat sheet is now on CheatSheets.org

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    Schultzter
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    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).

  • You NEED a dSLR to Take Great Shots!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    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…

  • Bonuses for AIG

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    Schultzter
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    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.

  • Where has the workmanship gone?

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    steve_mtl
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    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…

  • NOT The Bell Way!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    OK I’ll admit to being more than a little angry with the way that Bell through up our ExpressVu (now it’s simply Bell TV ) Dish on the chimney. But comments left both on this blog and in the Flickr feed have been rather supportive and tend to agree with me on the fact they…

  • The cost of hiring the wrong person, a cautionary tale

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    steve_mtl
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    I’ve been interviewing candidates for some job openings both for one of my teams and for a colleague’s over the last few months. Now when I interview, I tend to want to see many candidates. I want to be sure that the person I am hiring is not only a good match on paper, but…

  • NOT Getting Things Done

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    Schultzter
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    As many of you surely know, I’m a big fan of David Allen’s time/task management principles known as Getting Things Done. Well, I’ve fallen of the wagon somewhat a while back and, being a geek, I’ve been looking for something new and shiny to motivate me to get back on the horse. Well, a post…