GMail now has voice and video chat
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Yey! GMail now officially joins the bandwidth-sucking bandwagon. *groan* How will their offering fare against Yahoo? Will people bite? How will this affect other VoIP providers? Who cares?
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Globelines Broadband DSL DNS servers
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Think of your ISP’s DNS (Domain Name Service) servers as your Yellow Pages to the internet. They translate human-readable addresses (hostnames) into the numbers that computers understand (IP addresses).
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Globelines Broadband shifts to PPPoE. Finally.
Filed under: Geek
Ah, joy. DSL at home went down late in the afternoon of Saturday, May 12. After the usual round of dialing 9198888 and going through the horrors of CSR-speak, a Globe guy did eventually come over to fix things in the early morning of the next day, Sunday.
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How to deal with text scams? Snitch, of course.
Filed under: Geek
You’ve probably received those. Claiming that you won this and that, or that they’re offering such and such loans at such and such rate, or the more ordinary join this and that contest and asking for an “entry fee.” If you’ve ever wondered what to do with the crap, here’s one option: Snitch on the annoying, predatory fucks. I got this from a notice placed by the Anti-Money Laundering Council in the Inquirer:
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Found an online graphical traceroute tool
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Cool. This thing just requires that you input a given IP address or a hostname, and it conducts a traceroute, but not _just_ a traceroute. You can do that on any UNIX terminal with traceroute(8), or even on Windows with tracert anyway, so why bother, right?
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5 things users hate about websites
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Found a good article about what turns people off when browsing. It lists five.
Here they are:
Globelines Broadband DSL subscribers get a speed boost. Really.
Filed under: Geek
As advertised, users of Globelines Broadband DSL enjoyed a speed boost starting the first week of August. Those using the starter residential package which originally had 384kbps as its maximum speed now enjoy a 512kbps rate. Support personnel report that the implementation of the upgrade started last July 31. There are no additional charges, hidden or otherwise, that are involved with the client-friendly move.
