For those of you that happen to have an iPhone 3G or are getting an iPhone 3G-S this is a must read. (please note, links are provided for those that have no idea what I am referencing so they can find out)

As you all know Apple has recently upgraded the iPhone OS to 3.0, on the laundry list of features is Internet Tethering. AT&T claims not to support it but in fact it works like a charm showing up as standard iPhone Data usage. Now you may be thinking, I have a BlackBerry, I can tether with it if i pay $30/month, why is the iPhone so cool? Simple. Over the 3G connection on the iPhone 3G/3G-S you can be in a call with the handset or using a Bluetooth headset, you can be texting and using the internet on that nice MacBook. But not only can you do all that at the same time. You can take that shiny new MacBook, ans share the connection out to the Wireless and Ethernet adaptors (yes, both at the same time). Meaning you can connect 2 clients via the WiFi interface and 1 or more (would need a hub or switch) clients via the Ethernet interface. This means you can provide an internet connection to a decent sized group of people anywhere you go.

What PETA says...

Here’s something rather unexpected.  You would hope to expect better, from an organization that claims to care for animals.

The following story is from This is True dated 17 July 2005. It is Copyright 2005 Randy Cassingham, all rights reserved, and reprinted here with permission:

“Ethical” Defined

After more than 100 dead dogs were dumped in a trash dumpster over four weeks, police in Ahoskie, N.C., kept an eye on the trash receptacle behind a supermarket. Sure enough, a van drove up and officers watched the occupants throw in heavy plastic bags. They detained the two people in the van and found 18 dead dogs in plastic bags in the dumpster, including puppies; 13 more dead dogs were still in the van. Police say the van is registered to the headquarters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the two occupants, Andrew B. Cook, 24, and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, identified themselves as PETA employees.

Linksys WRT54g/GS

Imagine this, you are downloading some torrents (Open Source or Independent of course :p), and all of a sudden your Linksys router crashes and has to be rebooted. You wonder why this happens? I will tell you why, using the Linksys provided firmware the router caches the connection stats for 500 connections, eventually using torrents will cause the router to overload from all of the connections. Whats the soution to the problem you ask? Theres a distro of linux designed to run on certain routers. This distro is named DDWRT.

If your like me, you don’t watch Oprah… However you probably got an email from a friend or coworker with a link to a site where you can print coupons for a free 2 piece grilled chicken meal. Sounds great huh?……. Wrong! (mostly)

For those of you who have, or are thinking of getting Comcast, read this.

First off, I have been with Comcast since September of 2008. In that time I have found the service to be decent and in some instances even reliable. However the company themselves, leaves more to be desired.

In a hundred mile area ranging from Monterey to San Jose, Thursday April 9th was a quiet day. In fact, to repeat a cliche, it was “too quiet”.   Shortly after midnight, technically saavy vandals attacked 8 fiber optic backbone lines in Morgan Hill, cutting virtually ALL communication in the region.  Land lines, Cellular service, credit card processing, ATM communications, fire & security alarms and Internet service were wiped out, with eight well placed cuts.

Here are some videos which show examples of the new features Windows 7 has to offer. If you can remember in an earlier post I just provided a list and basic descriptions of the features. Well here is Microsoft showing them off at the 2008 Professional Developers Conference.

When most people think of streaming music on the iPhone, apps like Pandora and Last.fm come to mind, however with the release of 3.0 on the horizon, another method has arisen.

What I’m talking about is the rework of CORE Audio in 3.0. This nifty little upgrade allows for such things as the interface to the bluetooth stack for stereo audio over Bluetooth. Another nifty little bit of this is that you can now enter the URL of an MP3 or AAC stream into the address bar in safari and have the CORE audio process play this stream.