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   Review - Ubuntu

   8.04 RC (Apr 21, 2008)

   The RC is the best Ubuntu release ever. N-vidia video works flawlessly. Just check the menu set up and be sure screens and graphics is enabled under OTHER. This will get your max resolution going.. Wireless works after install with MadWifi and NDIS Wrapper works without tweaking for Super-G. Those having mounting problems with NTSF partitions should check out the help and addons and read the help files or forums. This is one sweet Linux distro.

2. Comment - RadioShack calls itself 'The Shack' in attempt to modernize image

   8.04 RC (Aug 3, 2009 - 9:40 PM)

   Given the absolute lack of knowledgeable employees and terrible customer service Radio Shack has to have been in the longest coma in history. This is a company that once had no less than two dozen company owned factories pumping out product. Today Radio Shack is little more than a satellite tv / cell phone reseller. The innovation that built this company is long gone. It is just a matter of months before the last customer out the door will shut off the lights.

3. Comment - Time Warner Cable responds to bandwidth cap complaints with price cap plan

   8.04 RC (Apr 13, 2009 - 5:22 AM)

   I am all for Time Warner charging whatever they want so long as the FCC renders the local franchises nul and void and then requires open competition across the board. The problem is that there are many areas where TW or Comcast are the only high speed providers and this schema is being protected by local government entities.Force TW to go up against Comcast or Cox or AT&T or any real competition and lets see how long those rates last. A free market with plenty of healthy competition is the American way - not some schema that provides all the protection offered public utilities, yet little regulation against gouging.

4. Comment - AT&T and Comcast are surprise participants in RIAA anti-piracy plan

   8.04 RC (Jan 29, 2009 - 1:10 PM)

   Comcast wont be happy until it is pure text all the way. In spite of their ridiculously high cost and low service broadband they still have poor network infrastructure, ongoing equipment issues and poor reliability. Perhaps they could take a break from tooting their horn and actually provide a decent level of broadband service. Pretty easy to advertise all that super fast, abundant and ever-increasing bandwidth that customers never seem to see..

5. Comment - AT&T may follow Comcast in monitoring Internet traffic

   8.04 RC (Jan 24, 2008 - 8:54 PM)

   It would be nice if the FCC would eliminate monopolies in broadband markets. I seriously doubt that broadband providers like Comcast and AT&T would be so bold if they knew subscribers would jump ship. As it is, there is just one choice in many markets so subscribers are paying these providers to dictate to them and even define what a subscriber surely intends to do. Allowing companies to adopt a posture that file sharing equals crime makes as much sense as declaring that anyone with a hunting license is prone to be a criminal. This is just over the top.

6. Comment - FCC opens the Comcast throttling debate to public comment

   8.04 RC (Jan 15, 2008 - 6:09 PM)

   This Comcast logic is incredible. Here is a company that encourages subscribers to download videos and music from its sites, brags about speed in its marketing and for the past several years has frequently touted how it is increasing bandwidth to it's customers.
   
   Comcasts throttling practices don't even match their own statements as Comcast will throttle traffic in the predawn hours when network usage is at its lowest. This isn't about managing traffic, but filtering traffic content. If Comcast had any other motive then why did it spend months denying that it was injecting its "shaping" techniques into the user experience? ....the experience that has been marketed as fast with lots of reliable bandwidth.
   
   I would love to see congress hold hearings,subpoena Comcast's internal communications concerning the implementation of these techniques and review company records and documents concerning their real practices. It would be particularly interesting to see how and why Comcast has "managed" USENET usage, P2P, file transfers and why Comcast (time and time again) advertises increased bandwidth only to back 'er off weeks later.
   
   It find it amazing that Comcast falls back on "reasonable network management" when local Comcast subscribers deal with poor QOS, third party voip and other service interruptions, poor reliability and downtime while charging very profitable rates for usage.