Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Feb

7

Map Showing the International Undersea Cables

By Jon Heizer

The vast bulk of international telephone and Internet traffic travels through underwater cables. This map shows the cables that were in use as of the end of 2004 and gives an indication of where traffic is heaviest.read more | digg story

Feb

7

Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 Comes Out Friday!

By Jon Heizer

The Mozilla Organization is set to release a public version of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 for public testing this Friday!read more | digg story

Feb

7

Out of Town

By Jon Heizer

Sorry for the silence lately.  I had to go out of town for business at the last minute.  Things should pick back up now that I am home.

Jan

30

Feds Want A Wiretap Backdoor In All Net Hardware and Software

By Jon Heizer

hinks the federal government is too intrusive? You ain’t seen nothing yet. An FCC mandate will require that all hardware and software have a wiretap backdoor that allows the government to tap into all your communications.
Now this is going a bit overboard…
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Jan

24

Disney buys Pixar

By Jon Heizer

“Walt Disney has announced that it is buying Pixar, the animated studio led by Apple head Steve Jobs, in a deal worth $7.4 billion. Speculation about a deal being imminent raged on Wall Street for the past few weeks. Disney has released all of Pixar’s films so far but their current distribution deal was [...]

Jan

23

Tripod perform at a Comedy Festival: “Make You Mappy Tonight”

By Jon Heizer


Jan

20

Freeze your hard drive to recover data: Myth or Reality?

By Jon Heizer

About 2 weeks ago, I had an article about hard disk recovery on the front page. One of the suggested solution to let people recover their data was to put their HD in the freezer, does this solution actually work? I tested it, and I have some pictures of the process.
Interesting…. Any of you [...]

Jan

19

NASA: Launch Was A Success. The 10 Year Journey Begins.

By Jon Heizer

Jan. 19, 2006 The Atlas V Launch Was A Success. The 10 Year Journey Begins. The spacecraft will cross the entire span of the solar system and conduct flyby studies of Pluto and Charon in 2015. Watch it live @ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/nasadirect/nasatv/tv-ie.htm
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Jan

17

Dual VIA CPU on Mini-ITX

By Jon Heizer

“The VIA VT-310DP is the latest in VIA’s growing line of highly acclaimed Mini-ITX mainboards and introduces dual processing power and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to the Mini-ITX form factor for the first time. Combined with the VIA CN400 digital media chipset, the VIA VT310 DP enables the development of a wealth of high density, low [...]

Jan

17

Great Sites to Telnet Into for Fun

By Jon Heizer

“Here is a listing of great Telnet sites for fun.
I like telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl (port 23) the best.”
There are some fun links here to play with. Check it out.
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Jan

17

Intel’s New Logo

By Jon Heizer

Here you can see Intel’s new Logo on the site of BMW’s F1 car.

Jan

15

Feeds Moved

By Jon Heizer

RSS 2.0 http://mysunfire.com/feed/RSS .92 http://mysunfire.com/feed/rss/Atom http://mysunfire.com/feed/atom/