100Mbps broadband a reality by 2007
Posted by joe (11 Comments)	Tue Sep 27th '05 04:21:51 PM
Telewest is starting its upgrade with a 10Mbps rollout in Scotland, with up to 100Mbps promised for London by the end of next year Telewest is looking at technology which could eventually boost broadband speeds up to 100Mbps, the company announced today. The cable company claims it will achieve this hundred-fold increase in broadband speeds, compared with the average connection today, thanks to its investment in Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) standards. Telewest is hoping to launch a service based on DOCSIS 3 middleware — which will allow download speeds between 50Mbps and 100Mbps by the end of 2006. In the meantime, the telco also announced that it has begun rolling out a 10Mbps broadband service in the UK. Initially only available in Scotland, the 10Mbps service should reach London at the beginning of next year with the rest of the country following over the next 12 months. Telewest is upgrading all of its blueyonder broadband packages, with the 'elite' service being boosted from 4Mbps to 10Mbps. The company also announced the price of this service has dropped from £50 per month to £35 per month. DOCSIS3 works over hybrid fibre co-axial cable, but Telewest is also planning to upgrade its Ethernet service to allow users to plug Ethernet cable straight into the back of a computer without the need of a modem. UK Online and Be are planning to roll out 24Mbps ADSL2+ services later this autumn in London, potentially stealing a march on BT's planned 8Mbps offering. Telewest plans to be competitive by offering 10Mbps purely for Internet access, and running digital TV and video-on-demand services over a different part of their cable network. "ADSL2+ is really being hyped at the moment, but a lot of the bandwidth on their cables will be taken up by IPTV. We offer true digital TV over our cable network already, which means we can offer 10Mbps of pure Internet surfing." a spokesman for Telewest said. Britain is rapidly catching up on Europe and America in terms of broadband technology, according to Telewest. "Britain was the last country to launch broadband, but our take-up rate is faster than both the US and France. We're playing catch up, but we're catching up fast," the spokesman said.
News Source: ZDNet	Genre: Tech

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger..
Posted by joe (10 Comments)	Fri Sep 23rd '05 08:12:16 AM
The KVM over IP was enabled finally around 1am, after many hours of screwing around installing slackware I've got some main services up. Update: all services restored. We're now running Slackware 10.2 and it's secured to the motherfucking hilt and running the very latest of everything. As with every other slackware box I have ran, I will not have any trouble with hax0rs.
	Genre: Site Update

Man builds up lots of static
Posted by Pud (10 Comments)	Fri Sep 16th '05 10:24:38 PM
An Australian man built up so much static electricity in his clothes as he walked that he burned carpets, melted plastic and sparked a mass evacuation. Frank Clewer, of the western Victorian city of Warrnambool, was wearing a synthetic nylon jacket and a woollen shirt when he went for a job interview. As he walked into the building, the carpet ignited from the 40,000 volts of static electricity that had built up. Mr Clewer said that after leaving the building, he scorched a piece of plastic in his car. His clothes were measured by firemen as carrying a current of 40,000 volts, the Reuters news agency quoted Mr Barton as saying.
News Source: duh	Genre: Comedy

iPod news
Posted by harry (11 Comments)	Wed Sep 7th '05 07:45:53 PM
Motorola ROKR & iPod nano http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/ http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/ iTunes 5.0 Not sure there is a whole lot new here http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/
News Source: Apple	Genre: Apple

Paypal freezes Something Awful's relief fund
Posted by donkey (3 Comments)	Sun Sep 4th '05 12:30:17 PM
Quote PAYPAL HAS frozen a relief effort set up by popular web site Something Awful. SA received $20,000 in less than half a day, and then Paypal decided to shut the fund down. What's the problem? "We have received more than one report of suspicious behavior from your buyers." I guess you are not shocked to find that SA is not actually selling anything. Paypal is demanding "proof of shipping" information to the aggrieved parties, conveniently listed in a table on the site. The number of scammed parties listed is all of zero long, and if you want to submit an explanation, you need to pick at least one from the list of no aggrieved parties. It appears there is no one you can call, no one you can mail, just a form that is broken. Check out SA for the full rant. It really is crazy how much money PayPal makes on this sort of thing (2.35% on $20k is a lot for doing nothing!) and yet they offer such awful customer service
News Source: Teh Inq	Genre: Internet

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