MetricMike

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by MetricMike 15y ago
Google announced the winner as Kansas City last month. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2011/tc201... has some interesting notes about the implications of Google running the service and disrupting the ISP market. One st
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by MetricMike 16y ago
LMS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system Blackboard is an LMS that many major universities use to provide online support for classes. At my university (University of Richmond), I can sign on to blackboard.richmond.edu
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by MetricMike 16y ago
To use Google's DNS servers you have to put their IP addresses manually into your network settings ( http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html ). If you don't set these, or set them back to using the "default" you'll use your
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by MetricMike 16y ago
Collaboration with Mono on .NET would be the "killer" news for me. With Java looking increasingly shaky, it'd be nice to have a second "write-once, run-everywhere" paradigm. While this may not end up being the greatest of reasons, a lot of
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by MetricMike 16y ago
Searching for "cell phone public" brought me to this: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cell_directory.h... Cell phone numbers have been going public this month for the last 6 years. =(
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Open-Source Could Mean an Open Door for Hackers(technologyreview.com)
1 points by MetricMike 16y ago|0 comments
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by MetricMike 16y ago
For example, I really enjoy the solutions that Valve/Steam and Blizzard/Battle.net came up with. I give them a CD Key and they give me unlimited opportunity to download and install the game that key goes to. Steam even goes one step further
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by MetricMike 16y ago
To your first point: Can you link to anything that would back this up besides anecdotes? I'm unconvinced that "I am surrounded by pirates" is more authoritative than the NPD's report. To your second point: As devinj pointed out, there are a
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by MetricMike 17y ago
I'm taking a networking class in my CS program and one of the (at least, I think) interesting topics we covered was the distance issue when linking two nodes together on a network. We got around to talking about really big networks (like
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NASA to Boost Speed of Deep Space Communications(space.com)
3 points by MetricMike 17y ago|1 comments
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by MetricMike 17y ago
Thanks! I've been trolling the Wikipedia pages for both of them but that's easily the best summary I've come across so far. =)
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by MetricMike 17y ago
The article states SATA 3.0 should have a maximum throughput of 6 Gbits/second. But isn't that the same expected throughput of USB 3.0? What advantage would I have in using SATA 3.0 (Revised?) over USB 3.0?