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Comcast-BitTorrent together at last

Comcast has announced that it is going to do packet shaping in a protocol agnostic way according to an article from news.com.  Some people would think that this is a great thing especially those using bit torrent which has been unfairly slowed by many Internet service providers.  You may think the bit torrent is only [...]

Windows Server 2008

(this was a replay to a forum post about the new features in Windows Server 2008)
Paul Thurrott a guy who writes the superset for Windows also does a podcast with Leo Laporte on Windows.  Paul is a nice enough guy but he clearly doesn’t look at the competitors to Windows server 2008 before he posted [...]

Solid-state Drives

(this was a replay to a forum post about the new solid-state drives)
A lot of people don’t realize is about solid-state drives but they aren’t as impenetrable as people think they are.  It turns out that solid-state drive has an seemingly unlimited capability to be read over and  over again.  Even though they have the [...]