Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica

Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into \’excessive use\’ warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there\’s little to complain about on that front. Internet data caps generated controversy in […]

Time Warner faces backlash on broadband caps

Go ahead and read the article… Educate yourself… But I only have one thing to say… We are mad, and were not going to take this anymore, Time Warner! Time Warner faces backlash on broadband caps: \”Consumers and lawmakers have expressed anger and concern over Time Warner Cable\’s plans to expand trials of service that […]

Add Antistatic Protection to Your Desk [DIY]

Add Antistatic Protection to Your Desk [DIY]: \” Whether your motivation is a deep hatred of surprise static shocks or you want to add a little security to your electronics workbench, this handy tutorial will help you banish static. Rob Severson, of the electronic hobbyist CircuitGizmos Labs, found himself frequently tinkering at his desk. Rob […]

There\’s no bias here…

Mac Marginalization: MacInTouch Reader I belong to a survey group called e-rewards (http://www.e-rewards.com/). I just received an invitation to a survey and when I tried to open the link in Safari I was told that it only ran on Windows with IE or Firefox. I fired up Parallels to access the survey which asked questions […]

Time Warner tries again, fails to justify caps and charges

Time Warner Cable, stung by public reaction to the Internet data caps it is now trialing in several markets, has issued yet another public statement. Turns out, the problem here doesn\’t rest with the caps but with the \’press reports\’ that \’were premature and did not tell the full story.\’ All of which perfectly explains […]

getpwnam() failed for user kenneth, creating invalid credential?

You finally checked your console log, and you don\’t know what to make about these entries?  Never fear… I\’ll help explain it…  Then you can be afraid of the big bad internet… The following is a sample of the console log of someone attempting to connect to \”Power-mac-g5\” via SSH, without having the proper username […]