Archive for October, 2007

Six things to demand from your Internet Service Provider

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

In the world of Internet service advertising, we’re perpetually bombarded with ads that, above all, extol the “virtues of a faster Internet experience”. Don’t fall into the trap — here are six aspects you should evaluate beyond the “numbers” in your current or future Internet contract:

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How to automate torrent downloads using TorrentFlux-b4rt, cron and rsync

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

TorrentFlux-b4rt is an awesome masterpiece of engineering. You install it on your Web server, and then you can start downloading BitTorrent torrents right away. The catch is that those torrents are saved in your Web server until you actually download them to your PC. And having to schedule downloads separately is a pain. Well, no more.

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You are invited into a room. There are 10,000 boxes. One of them will kill you, the others contain $1,000. The question is:

Monday, October 29th, 2007

How many would you open? Please post your answer here.

Comcast, corporatism, tech support and lies

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Word got out that people working at the tech support division in Comcast will be required to lie as part of their job description. Yes, required to lie.

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Why men can’t iron

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Dunno about you people, but this is one of the reasons why I don’t keep a phone around while ironing:

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Ten sarcastic reasons gay marriage should be forbidden

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I dunno about you guys, but I support gay marriage. In case you don’t, here are a few nice reasons you can quote in your next cocktail drink discussion about the subject (stupidity in bold — sarcasm italicized):

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¡Camúflate, varón! Sólo a los japoneses se les puede ocurrir…

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

…un camuflaje tan extravagante como el que van a ver a continuación. De verdad que hay que estar tostado del mate para comer este cuento!

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The myth of the thousand updates for Linux, debunked

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

For the last six months, I’ve been reading article after article spewing the same bovine manure: Look at how many updates Distribution X issued! How can it be more secure than Windows? Let’s bury that stupidity under a ton of facts:

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Cure for AIDS found

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Although (like for herpes) no cure for HIV has been found yet, new developments at the University of Copenhagen have already cured full-blown AIDS and are in the process of gathering more patients to continue testing:

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