* Backspin: The connected culture unconnected * Gearhead: DSL, Part III (in which we get back DSL) * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Backspin: The connected culture unconnected
If you have been following Gearhead recently you know of the trials and tribulations that have been experienced here at Gibbs Towers with our DSL connection.
To read this week’s Backspin in its entirety, click here.
Gearhead: DSL, Part III (in which we get back DSL)
Last week we were relating our ongoing struggles with DSL (see Gibbsblog for a selection of your comments on this topic), which concluded with us being disconnected from the world. Our solution, at least until AT&T restored our service, was to set up a wireless connection to our neighbors, the commander and his lady wife, that allowed us to piggyback on their cable broadband service.
To read this week’s Gearhead in its entirety, click here.
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
We need a national broadband policy
I make the case in Backspin. What do you think?
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My laser is bigger than your laser
According to the American Physical Society’s journal, Physical Review Letters, a team of scientists just built the world’s longest laser out of a fiber optic cable and it could be really useful …
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The sounds of failure
Hitachi has a knowledge base page that has real recordings of disk drives failing …
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Time sink #4
For the second Time Sink of this Friday I offer you a collection of games …
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Time sink #3
Today’s first bottomless pit that will suck your life away is a simple looking problem that starts out easy and quickly gets aggravatingly difficult …
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Time sink #2
Following on from my last wildly popular post on this topic I have another fiendishly clever and remarkably time wasting site for you to get lost in …
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Time sink #1 (first of a series)
I know you’re busy and you have better things to do so I feel I should apologize up front for bringing this I’m-not-sure-what-the-hell-it-is to your attention as it is gauranteed to waste at least 20 minutes of your valuable time …
