Since I have not been able to get anyone at the Internet Archive to give me anything more than a, “yeah, we got your email” regarding their SFLan “project”, I noticed today that someone posted a question about the San Francisco Meraki WiFi project. Right now, they will give one of their repeaters to you […]

Thought I would put these up in case anyone with Vonage VOIP service was looking for Vonage diagnostic tests and tools. They have some beta diagnostic software available as well as a very cool broadband speed test and network status tool available online. I have always used Speakeasy’s broadband speed test in the past, […]

So, some people out there may have heard that the City of San Francisco has been trying to get a municipal WiFi network setup for a while now. I am not sure what the status is, but it ran into some decent opposition (as it should have IMHO) when they brought on Google and Earthlink […]

Ok, I am sorry. I am getting pretty tired of the ridiculous people that companies choose to use to staff their sales and customer service facilities. We have all had the Indian guy on the phone, with the half second lag between talking and listening. Now it seems that Mexico is the next […]

Ok, sorry for the crazy title. I have had a whole slew of people ask me how to get their Cingular 8125 connected to their laptop via a Bluetooth Dial-Up connection, so here is how you do it.
First you are going to need to make sure that you have connected your computer and […]

Ok, how about a little geekery on this gorgeous Friday. First, let me say that I am very thankful for this summer’s weather here in SF, last year was poop. Anyway, I have been noticing some issues with our 6Mb/768Kb DSL line in the past couple of days. The biggest reason I have […]

I have to say, this whole Cingular 8125 battery deal is starting to piss me off a bit. For the second time, my 8125 will not charge. It is really nice to have a phone that not only smokes a battery, as far as “talk time” goes, but also ends up killing the battery […]

Looks like San Francisco is one step closer to having a free citywide wifi internet system. The SF Chronicle reports today that the city will be issuing a RFP (request for proposals) from vendors and system engineers to build, what would be the second, big-city wifi internet access system. Philadelphia has been building their […]

Ok, I like free and I am not complaining here, but Blogger is a piece of crap. I have had problems with their system virtually every day. It is either unreachable due to too much load, or there are crazy errors when I try to publish to one of our sites. I don’t […]