If you hate you some telemarketer phone calls, here's one more weapon in the fight against their persistent calls:
If you call a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service you will hear 3 short tones, "doo…dah…dee", thanks to Ma-Bell…. Guess what the telemarketers' software does when it detects these 3 tones at the beginning of your outgoing message? It thinks it has reached a line that is disconnected or is no longer in service. So, it disconnects and does not log …

I thought I knew something about networking, but according to an animated cartoon by telco lobbyists, I've been laboring under numerous misconceptions. For example, I'd always believed it possible to increase both capacity and bandwidth without the kind of traffic discrimination that the telcos would like to introduce. Apparently, that's wrong.
The cartoon clearly illustrates that network neutrality makes it impossible for broadband providers to increase capacity and bandwidth. You've simply got to discriminate between cheap packets and expensive packets to accommodate a large …

The Apartment Therapy blog lets me in on a handy tip for cleaning the microwave.
[F]ill a microwave-safe bowl with about 1-2 cups of water. Add some lemon juice, or put in half a piece of fresh cut lemon (squeezing some juice out first) into the bowl.Microwave until the water is boiling. Then let it sit for a few minutes to let the steam penetrate the interior. Carefully remove the bowl and interior tray. Wipe down the interior with a damp cloth.
Any micro-cook can tell you …

Amazon has just unleashed a Grocery section into beta, touting a product base of 10,000 strong (and growing).
The items are all non-perishables, with a wide selection of snacks, beverages, baking goods, etc., along with a natural and organic section (how progressive).
Ever since the Internet was born (as the legend goes), people have been trying to sell me groceries online. I'm personally still not all that interested, but if anyone can pull it off large-scale, it's Amazon. What do you think, oh savvy readers? Will …

Google is urging grassroots action in favour of net neutrality. CEO Eric Schmidt has written an open letter to Google users asking them to speak out on this issue. Call your representative in Congress at 202-224-3121.
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Do you know your blogosphere from your moblog? What does “captcha” stand for? How about hitnosis or GAD (I have to admit I didn’t know those last two, either!)? Well, now’s your chance to impress your friends, family, and co-workers with the Giant Blogging Terms Glossary. Once you get the hang of these blogging terms, you’ll be a certified blogtastic blogoholic. — Wendy Boswell
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"Automatix 6.1 is now stable (works on both Breezy and Dapper x86)". This will install a plethora of software, codecs, and plugins that many users manually download and setup themselves after installing Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu has been, by far, one of the most feature-rich, fast, reliable Linux distributions I have ever put through its paces. Here's a nice quote to sum up this reviewer's thoughts on the new release of Ubuntu Dapper:
"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu’s Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellent apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."
Now that Dapper Drake is …

So I went to see The Da Vinci Code this weekend.  I had read the book before going to see the movie and I must admit, I was a little disappointed, but it was better than I was anticipating.  It is a neat spin on what could have happened back in the day that Jesus walked the earth.  The basic plot of the book and movie is that the secret to who Jesus was, and what happened in the past, is hidden in paintings that …

Web site Share Your OPML is bringing the social web to your RSS feeds.
After uploading your OPML file (the file that holds all of your RSS subscriptions), Share Your OPML lets you compare your subscriptions to other users with similar tastes, meaning that this could be a great way to find new web sites and feeds that you might like. The Share Your OPML homepage also has a list of the current Top 100 feeds.
Though the site is still somewhat young, it’ll only get more useful as more people use …