Thursday, January 31, 2013

Windows 8 Pain Point #3 - Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6150

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So, I've been on Windows 8 for a couple months now, and all in all it's not too bad.  One trend that has started to irritate me quite a bit is the fact that my WiFi connection continually drops.  It's intermittent, but for whatever reason, my adapter just disconnects from the WiFi router.  Then, when I go to reconnect it, Windows tells me I can't connect back to the...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Anonymous allegedly strikes ussc.gov

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According to mashable.com, Anonymous defaced ussc.gov and posted a YouTube video describing their intentions (embedded in the article) to declare "war" on the U.S. government in response to Aaron Schwartz' suicide.  They encouraged people to download "warheads" to be launched at supposedly vulnerable assets within U.S. government networks.In the YouTube video, it shows a...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

FoxFi acquired by PDAnet

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I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE (SCH-i515), and my go-to app for WiFi tethering since Summer 2012 has been FoxFi. FoxFi originally only had one version, which was free. When activated, it sets up a wireless router instance on your phone. Fortunately, it's pre-set to use 802.11n and WPA2-PSK. All you have to do is accept the default SSID (FoxFi73) or create your own, set the password,...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

Office 2013: Impressions after Day 1

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Installation: The install is pretty standard.  The new aspect to the install is that you now have an option to either enter a product key or enter in your domain account to complete the process.  I chose the product key option, but I'm assuming the domain account allows end users to perform approved installs without having to pre-stage the product key.  It probably calls...
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