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Laptops and limited stocks
In: Technology
8 Jan 2010
Being that my lappie is already two and a half years old, it’s really high time to consider retiring it. But goodness what a workhorse this ASUS A8Jr is. Left on for 16 hours a day for those two [...]
Permanent obsolescence
In: Technology
11 Jul 2009Our trusty (relatively) old television set just Kurt Cobained on me. It might as well have left me with a note saying, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” Burn out, it did.
It was one of those last of Sony’s Trinitron line. First ones of the flatscreen CRTs. It was a real trooper [...]
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- Tags: Broken, CRT, Death, Television, TV
The quest for a new laptop
In: Computers| Technology
31 May 2009On to more personal concerns here. I’m really, really suffering from a bad case of GAS. Or maybe not. Perhaps “investing” on work-related technology would be a worthwhile move. Then again, I already have the functional tools to do my work so investing on new tech is quite unnecessary.
My ASUS A8Jr’s finally fixed but not [...]
Globelines P2P back in business?
18 May 2009As of 6:35-ish this evening, people have started to report that P2P speeds are now spiking to more decent speeds.
I’m still getting sub-par speed and is quite erratic but something definitely has changed since it’s now breaching the 44-46 kB/s speeds of the past three days. I still can’t say that everything’s back to [...]
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- Tags: Bandwidth, Globelines, Peer-to-Peer, Throttling
What is the business case for Globelines P2P throttling?
In: Business| Technology
17 May 2009Globelines Broadband subscribers are really pissed off. Many of them are threatening to jump ship and not at all threatened by the lock-in clause. If only class action lawsuits aren’t that foreign in this country, I’m pretty sure that Innove/Globelines would be facing one right now.
Rumor has it that Globelines will be making a [...]
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- Tags: Broadband, Cap, Globelines, Internet, P2P, Peer-to-Peer, Throttling
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