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I've used a free eFax number as my main fax number for many many years now. I only receive the occasional fax and having a separate line and a fax machine of some sorts just wasn't worth it. Looks like eFax might be phasing out the free service. Recieved this on my second eFax number […]

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Whats the big deal with everyone getting excited about the Amazon Yellow Pages. I've been waiting since the early to mid 90's for something like this. In fact, this is one of the first useful things I thought I'd see on the net back then. There have been a lot of attempts over the years […]

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Tyler Hamilton inteviews Dermot O'Carroll, senior vice-president of network engineering and operations at Rogers Cable as stated in his blog here. The actual article is published in the Star here. I'd like Dermot to explain how Rogers can make claims as stated in the article: “Rogers is promising eight hours worth of back-up power in case […]

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As predicted in this post the dam has broken and the connection was totally fried for a period today. Serious degredation in cable TV reception in the last 2 weeks as well. Was down for an hour only today but this is likely a sign of more downage coming up.

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ISP typically take the way too aggressive approach as Verizon seems to be doing. This certainly doesn't surprise me. From this article: Since mid-December, users have complained on Internet message boards and to Verizon customer service centers that they are not receiving legitimate inbound e-mail from Europe and Asia. Verizon, they say, has taken the […]

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According to this article, Google is looking for a job candidate that include the following duties: “Identification, selection, and negotiation of dark fiber contracts both in metropolitan areas and over long distances as part of development of a global backbone network; contracts and negotiation for managed metropolitan services and long haul wavelength services to fulfill […]

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Looks like Adam is having the time of his life with getting Internet connectivity at his new place. I know how he feels. I went through the same thing here with Rogers and FCI Broadband (used to be called Futureway) when I first moved in. I've written about these idiots before here. I would have […]

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For those of you looking for legitimate uses for BitTorrent and also looking to download Redhat Fedora Core 1, 2 or 3 you can find the torrents here. They are downloading extremely nicely for me right now. Be nice to see a lot more legal uses of BitTorrent like this. Perhaps I should start a […]

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Yesterday's Pittsburgh Steelers game against the New York Jets was a typical Steelers playoff game (very aggravating). I've been a Steelers fan since I was old enough to know what football was. Having gone through the Bradshaw (and company) glory days, it has been very difficult to watch the Steelers struggle in the last 4-5 […]

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Ok, I must not be getting something here. Why in my life time would I ever pay a monthly service fee to access my own video, photos etc from my own computer??? Just maybe I'd pay for software to do this which is likely available from a number of vendors. Am I missing something here??? […]

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