Apophis

Last night I did a little bit of thinking about ACTA, SOPA, PIPA and the DMCA. I started to feel overly disgusted with the MPAA, RIAA and their affiliated labels and studios. I felt disgusted with the way that our politicians are bought and sold with lobbying dollars by the industry. Then I had a horrible realization; I helped fund these very things that I despise. I helped fund the studios and thereby the industry associations through my media purchasing history. For every dollar I spent buying ...

Tags: acta, chris dodd, dmca, library donation, mpaa, pipa, riaa, sopa

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So, I have a Logitech MX 1000 cordless laser mouse. It's not the most modern, but I like it. It feels good in my hand, the battery lasts FOREVER and still recharges properly, all the buttons work, and has great range. I have no reason to buy a new mouse.

When I first bought it, I was running Windows XP. If I plugged the wireless base/charger into a USB port, the mouse would behave erratically. It would take on a mind of its own and start jumping across the screen. It had a ...

Updated 08-11-2011 at 08:17 PM by Apophis

Tags: erratic mouse, logitech g930, logitech mx 1000, logitech revue

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As the PR guys have noticed, things have not been so rosey in the DC datacenter recently. There have been a lot of upgrades happening and equipment being shifted around to improve network performance. There is a rather LARGE upgrade coming up that should change things considerably.

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Maintenance Summary:

In a continuing effort to improve the SoftLayer network, SoftLayer Engineers will be performing maintenance

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I just read this article over on InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/...ogle/229402312

Lets just say it got me annoyed. After writing a rather lengthy reply only to find out that IW's commenting system is completely BROKEN (must be their focus on the speed of getting their articles out rather than their excellence), I figured I would post it here.

If you read the article first, my comments in parenthesis will make a little more sense. ...

Tags: apple tv, google tv, information week, thomas claburn

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I got my Cr-48 in today to start playing with and testing. I'm pretty excited.

Out of the box the setup was seamless and quick. Not much to do really! It's certainly a unique take on a laptop though. Setting it up on my wireless was a breeze and once I added in my credentials to sync Crome up with the rest of my browsers I was good to go.

I know there are a lot of detractors of this technology, but having a RAPID booting (1.12seconds) laptop that keeps all your ...

Tags: chrome os, google cr-48

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