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Help with internets

System:
Dell Inspiron 1520
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2Ghz 2gig RAM 32bit
Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
My Internet has been acting up lately — just a series of kicking me on and off. When I do get on, I seem to be capped at like 10kb/s whenever I try to download anything. I tried diagnosing it on [...]

Email Bounce Error Help

Can someone help decipher these errors that an outside user is getting when trying to send mail to our server:
X-POP-User: lfindlay000.centurytel.net
X-Envelope-From:
Return-Path: <>
Received: from D1R99811 (72-161-234-79.dyn.centurytel.net [72.161.234.79])
by mail960c35.nsolutionszone.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with SMTP id m6V04ULW007741
for <>; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:04:34 GMT
From: "Linda Findlay" <>
To: "Lilia Guzman" <>

Apple skewered over missing DNS patch

Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.
For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort [...]

I have a Sun Colabt Qube 3 just sitting here, kickin’ it.

I don’t have much use for it. How useful/useless is this thing?makes a good server but harddrives are a PITA to replace so dont rely on itI think we still have ours from when we had an internal mail server at work… I guess Comcast didn’t want it back… It’s been almost 6 years.That [...]

Amazon Cloud

I am really, really impressed with Amazon EC2/S3/Queue/SimpleDB. There have been a few issues of downtime lately, but basically I’ve written a web application using Perl/Catalyst/MySQL/Ubuntu (and sometimes Solaris) that needs to sale to 100K hits an hour or so, but will remain idle most of the time. In other words it needs [...]