Okay it has happened I am joining the 21st century if you want to read my tweets, and they are not many I plan to tweet more on my up and coming roadtrip,but if you really want to know here is the addy My twitter feed so there ya go folks.

People seem underwhelmed by Chromium OS, but maybe Google has a bigger plan: how about producing a netbook running Chromium OS, and giving it away? The small hardware costs would be covered by advertising *in the Web apps*. Would you use one?

Like there is no ad’s on Google to start with? Of course I would try one for goodness sake, Baldy

Would You Accept Google’s Free Netbook?

Going back to the article concerning the demise of CompuServe one of the early providers that lost out was also Sprite, one that was costly and hard to access. There was one more that I really have let slide to the back of the tiny little brain but if some one can think of it feel free to drop me a note. Baldy

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The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL. The service, which provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service, had seen the number of users dwindle in recent years. At its height, the service boasted about having over half a million users simultaneously on line. Many innovations we now take for granted, from online travel (Eaasy Sabre), online shopping, online stock quotations, and global weather forecasts, just to name a few, were standard fare on CompuServe in the 1980s.

CompuServe users will be able to use their existing CompuServe Classic (as the service was renamed) addresses at no charge via a new e-mail system, but the software that the service was built on, along with all the features supported by that software, from forums for virtually every topic and profession known to man to members’ Ourworld Web pages, has been shut down. Indeed, the current version of the service’s client software, CompuServe for Windows NT 4.0.2, dates back to 1999.

Darn I have been in computers way to long I remember( old guy moment) when the only options for the Internet was AOL and CompuServe and then came the local dial ups. Now I know it might be time to retire. Baldy

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R.I.P. CompuServe

Okay thanks to LC the Paradox is now available on your Cell Phone or PDA. Just another way to check out the news and see if I have been doing anything.
Everyone knows that I never do anything but there is always that hope and dream. LOL I hope that you enjoy the newest addition and that you make use of it if so desired. And a big thanks to LC for the time she put in, Baldy

Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins to help protect the mobile worker.

Personally I use all but two of these little rascals and I might have to check into the others even if I do run Linux I would really hate to pick up a bug that can spread to my more uninformed Windows Users friends, Baldy

Seven Must-Have Firefox Security Add-Ons

Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home. The little plug-in computers start with a gigahertz-class processor and are capable of acting like home media servers or network and Internet-connected devices that can run many software-based services.

Only one little problem there seems to be no video drivers included in the package, which might make it a tad bit of a handful to setup. Baldy

Marvell Offers Mini Plug Computer for Consumer, Network, Appliance Designs

The fastest way to raise the hackles of most U.S. IT professionals is to mention offshore outsourcing. Among them, there is a common perception that U.S. corporations are cutting IT budgets by laying off lots of IT professionals and shipping their IT jobs overseas, and generally wrecking a lot of IT departments in the process.

This perception has been driven by two sources: 1.) the media, which has latched on to outsourcing stories, and 2.) by several large and prominent U.S. corporations such as Dell and Citibank that have outsourced much of their consumer customer support to offshore companies in India.

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Okay as you all know, or I hope that you do Comcast has started to enforce a bandwidth on it’s users. While a 250 gig a month cap sounds like a lot, but if you have more than one computer and more than one user, what with movie,iso’s, podcasts, chattting, IM, and streaming music the bandwidth can add up fast. While I have not as of yet done a system wide check of the bandwidth I use monthly, I do have yearly total on this machine one that sits in the living room and has very little use beyond downloading mail and some chatting and surfing. The Grand total for that is 20 gigs for the year. Not much you say but this is not a work machine it downloads no iso’s and I test a lot of different Linux distro’s in a month, not to mention the podcasts and other downloads I have on other machines. Should the providers be thinking caps at all? After all they are the ones that advertise the fast download rates they offer, the advantages of using them to download the huge DVD movies that you can now get online yeah one of those is over 7 gigs by itself , and you see how the providers offer everything under the sun to get users and then they stab the users in the back and enforce a cap for the right to use the services that they themselves have offered. While I understand that business has to make money and there is nothing wrong with that concept it is the idea of offering somethings and and once they have the users the tell them no no you use them too darn well. Will we all be under caps before long or is Comcast once again just playing bully to it’s customers? Don’t forget they have been caught more than once using unethical methods to cap users. I for one am glad I don’t have comcast and I hope I never will. Well I am off the soapbox of now and I hope that I will never have to deal with this issue in my time. Baldy

Suppose someone wants to send you a large file. They could try to send it via email, but many email servers impose limits on file size. They could try sending it over during an instant messenger or Internet Relay Chat session, but that’s slow, as the file actually gets transferred twice: once to the chat server, then to your machine. File transfer services like RapidShare and MegaUpload are fine, but not for confidential information. Of course, you could set up an FTP server on your box, but you don’t want to leave that door open all the time. Luckily, there’s now an easy solution: droopy.

Easy file uploads with Droopy