Posts Tagged ‘modem’

Bad Geek Squad

August 5, 2010 |  by Nick  |  No Comments  | 

A while ago I had a customer come to me about fixing a laptop and fixed it and I even brought down to her house.  When I was there she asked me if I could take a look at her desktop, So I said sure.  She told me she been paying for internet and haven’t been able to use it. There was that yellow annoying triangle on the network connectivity icon in the tray area, so I said ok, lets check the TCP/IP settings and it was all set to auto, nothing was changed, it all seemed normal.  I asked her where the cable and modem was, she showed me.

Now, before I continue I wanted to say that Geek Squad had set up their network and it didn’t even worked and charged them roughly around 150 dollars according to their invoice.   I was like wow, and they didn’t even get it to work and charged them anyways. I was kind of upset that Geek Squad would do that and I don’t support Geek Squad.

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The Sony Daily Edition

August 27, 2009 |  by Nick  |  1 Comment  | 

Sony is calling their new eBook reader the Daily Edition.  As in, newspapers.sonydailyreader.190

The Daily is at the high end of the price range at $400.  More significantly, the Daily throws another punch in the match against the Kindle from Amazon, like the Kindle DX, although the Daily only has a 7inch screen, which doesn’t match up to the Kindles 9.7inch screen.

However, Sony added a 3G Modem to provide free 3G wireless connectivity to the Sony eBook Store.  Users will be able to buy and download books, newspapers and magazines, with no monthly fees or charges for basic wireless connectivity, assuming they can get connected to the AT&T service. Sony is expecting to have other ways of access.

The highlight of the Daily is the introduction of a Library Finder application.  Sony is working with a e-book distributor OverDrive and over thousands of libraries in the OverDrive network, users will be able to enter their ZIP codes into the application and download electronic books with a valid library card. At the end of the lending period, the books just vanish from the reader.  Though book selection will most likely be limited.

Physically, the Daily — which won’t go on sale until later in the year — will have a display housed in an aluminum shell that can be read in either portrait or landscape mode. In portrait mode, about 30 to 35 lines of text will visible, making the experience very similar to that of a printed paperback book, Sony says.

1964 Antique Modem

June 12, 2009 |  by Nick  |  No Comments  | 

I recently can across a neat video of someone testing out a 1964 modem and I thought it was really neat to just think about how people connected to the internet back in the sixtys, which I didn’t have a clue that the internet was working back in the 60’s but again it was basically just little of data back then, but not a whole lot.