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Lenovo Ideapad K1 - Icecream Sandwich options

2012-08-02T19:19:00.002-04:00

Well, this is a change. Lenovo finally came out with the long sought after Icecream Sandwich update for their K1 tablet last week, and what appeared at first to be a major disappointment turned out...

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Killing a project

2012-08-02T08:37:00.001-04:00

One of the nerdy things I'm fairly interested in is computer security, and I've been banging on about the need to get people to understand, and in the case of Ubuntu, implement domain management as...

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Galaxy Nexus with Jellybean

2012-07-21T22:52:00.004-04:00

I've been hesitant to recommend the phone I have for a fairly major reason which I'll come to in a moment, but I'm going to give a cautious thumbs up to it now that I've updated my Galaxy Nexus to...

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Lenovo Ideapad K1 Ice Cream Sandwich update

2012-07-05T11:32:00.000-04:00

Update: 3rd August: I've put together an article explaining what's available now here. Update: 30th July Lenovo has finally released ICS: The update does not include the Google Android app...

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On the Surface, a good idea from Microsoft

2012-06-19T10:01:00.003-04:00

Microsoft has announced a new tablet, the Surface. It's a powerful 10" tablet that will run Windows RT - a combination of Windows 8 and Office, recompiled to run on the ARM CPU, a processor used in...

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Apple's hissy fit: probably a bad thing

2012-06-14T11:03:00.000-04:00

The take-home for a lot of commentators after Apple's recent WWDC was that Steve Job's threat to "go thermonuclear" against Google has finally come to pass. Aside from the sniping against Apple's...

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Oracle and Google: Control over inventions has limits

2012-05-25T10:01:00.001-04:00

Has it really been two years? The verdicts are in: After Google used some Java-related standards (the language, and some APIs) in the Android operating system, Oracle has been told that Google did...

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T-Mobile and the AT&T fall out

2012-04-10T08:34:00.001-04:00

During the last year, T-Mobile made a number of changes to the way its run in order to make it more appealing to its suitor, AT&T. Fortunately, the AT&T deal went south, but T-Mobile still...

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Tip of the morning: Amazon Cloud Drive and Android

2012-03-26T10:06:00.002-04:00

If you've tried downloading anything from Amazon Cloud Drive that isn't an MP3, onto your Android device, you've probably been pretty annoyed at the experience. On the default browser (and other...

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Save Lenovo

2012-03-25T23:15:00.001-04:00

I've been using Thinkpads since the late 1990s, and only recently, and reluctantly, switched to a different laptop maker for my main home laptop. They were solid, had beautiful designs, were well...

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Horse thieves and the Copyright Posse

2012-03-23T14:08:00.000-04:00

I don't need a horse, and wouldn't benefit from having one. And had I lived the life of a surf in the Middle Ages, I wouldn't have needed a horse then either. But had I lived in the Wild West, I...

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Tables, css, and correct layout

2012-02-02T09:43:00.001-05:00

Did some brand-name-search-product-ing (you know I was going to write Googling, but that would be a violation of trademark law!) this morning because I was curious to know if the lack of "colspan" in...

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VOIPo experiences

2012-01-31T12:32:00.001-05:00

Mentioned in this review (Paid link) VOIPo provides voice over IP services at an extremely low cost. If you have a broadband Internet connection, you use VOIPo to replace your home phone...

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On the SOPA box: Copyrights, copylefts, and copywrongs

2012-01-23T09:33:00.000-05:00

I don't usually politicize on this blog, it's generally counter productive, but the recent fight in Congress and on the Internet concerning the "SOPA" (Stop Online Piracy Act) law means the tech...

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Kindle Fire

2011-12-23T11:54:00.002-05:00

Got this as a present from my mother and step-father (ironically right after I got my step-father one!) Here's my report on it! 1. When is Android not Android? While much has been made of the fact...

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Amazon Fire

2011-12-08T08:53:00.001-05:00

Haven't spent a lot of time with this, as the Fire I bought was actually for my step-father, but I wanted to make a few comments having used one. 1. It's the right size The iPad may have pioneered...

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Tablets, Netbooks, and the next big thing

2011-12-01T08:26:00.001-05:00

As my regular readers know, I'm somewhat of a tablet skeptic. For the most part I enjoy being a part of this industry, but I actually resented, to a certain extent, the fact that I had to buy a...

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Virtualization options

2011-11-29T08:28:00.001-05:00

Anyone who's heard of virtualization probably has discovered there are many different tools out there to help install and run multiple operating systems on a single computer. While many of these...

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Setting up network bridging for VMs in Ubuntu

2011-11-27T11:18:00.001-05:00

I had cause to set up a network bridge in a new Ubuntu system this weekend. For those unsure of the concept, the idea of bridging (in this context) is to connect virtual machines to a network. The...

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Ideapad K1 First Impressions (some updates)

2011-11-25T13:32:00.001-05:00

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Android and Open Source (Updated)

2011-10-24T11:30:00.001-04:00

(Updates below) I read a lot of commentary about the Android operating system with a large subset of people convinced that Android isn't "free software" or "open source". Much of this is based on...

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When you've already decided the story

2011-09-29T11:11:00.001-04:00

I don't know about you, but if you have any interest in the markets, then the news around a month ago became very surreal. The S&P, a ratings agency, "downgraded" the US debt on a Sunday. The...

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And then there were three

2011-08-23T18:56:00.001-04:00

We're down to three major tablet "platforms", Blackberry, Android, and iOS. HP has withdrawn its webOS tablets, and while some hope that other manufacturers may license the system from HP, it seems...

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Asterisk tip: ast_sip_ouraddrfor: Address remapping activated in sip.conf but we're using IPv6, which doesn't need it. Please remove "localnet" and/or "externaddr" settings.

2011-07-27T17:51:00.000-04:00

Ever seen this "error" message from Asterisk? "ast_sip_ouraddrfor: Address remapping activated in sip.conf but we're using IPv6, which doesn't need it. Please remove "localnet" and/or "externaddr"...

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Low cost devices to hook up to your Asterisk system

2011-06-29T07:04:00.004-04:00

If you're considering setting up an Asterisk PBX (or any other type of VoIP PBX for that matter) you've probably asked yourself what's involved. Obviously you need a computer to run the PBX on, but...

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