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I hate bad news specially when they affect me in some way. The Bryant Park Project was my choice here in Arizona at 5 AM which made my morning commute a reality is being cancel tomorrow on July 25, 2008. If you don’t know what I am talking about the Bryant Park Project is a NPR show with a focus on discussion instead of the regular news and interview program, the focus was to attract a younger audience with a different format. I consider the show good podcast material, but appeareantly everything is being cancel. I hope the Bryant Park Project members find new opportunities, good luck.

The FCC pretty much gave Comcast a slap in the face and made it clear it has no right to interfere or restrict what protocols it’s clients request (no formal action taken yet). The whole time Comcast argued that throttling P2P was an effective way of reducing and controlling the network congestion created by this specific protocol. And so far we know what the FCC thinks of all this.

The fact that the FCC agrees that ISP’s manipulating the protocols it’s wrong but also fails to prevent the trend by the big providers of placing bandwidth caps. Comcast is the shinning example of what the ISP’s really want which is full control over the network and what goes through the same network. The original plan called for

• Regaining control over the over subscribed lines
• limit or restrict protocols that may be use for entertainment
• place limits on the amount of bandwidth (prices won’t go down)
• offer preferential services for a fee

The amounts of bandwidth hungry applications has increased that’s a fact and the ISP’s have no intentions for upgrading the networks to meet the demands instead they want to treat bandwidth like a limited resource. The sad reality is that P2P offers a truly distributed medium with a lot of potential if optimized. Perhaps they could make use of the masses and redistribute the content at a local level. But controlling not optimizing the network is in their best interest, bandwidth caps are inevitable.

I just would like to say that we live in the United States not in Australia meaning our traffic has no need to travel across the ocean to reach the country where most sites are hosted, so why should I be held to the same standards as the Australians?.

• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080711-comcast-loses-fcc-head-slams-companys-p2p-filtering.html
• http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5huAOgy6g1S5wW-7ft0FRuIypdzLQD91RD0RO0

Finally some one with a useful blog came up with a useful idea. Like the title suggest TechCrunch.com is trying to organized a team to build a dead simple Internet tablet capable of delivering the full internet (porn capable) experience for $200 dollars. So far TC is proposing a Linux ARM powered tablet, 512MB of RAM and 4Gb solid state drive.
Features

• built in camera
• one USB port

Using Linux means TC wants the community to help with the creation of the OS specific for the tablet and of course porting and creating applications. I for one welcome our new overlord the “open tablet”.

I have two suggestions which are to cut the amount of RAM down to 256MB a few bucks more for 512MB may not seem like much but if put into the thousands it will add up. Remove the camera. Every penny counts. The USB port is an awesome idea.

I am excited and I call it OT short for Open Tablet.

The coolest site ever

If you ever find your self sorrounded by the non open source world like the office then direct your browser to http://cb.vu/.

Have fun

Hint

su – root “root”

reboot

Ubuntu 8.04 made the beautiful integration of Compiz for eye candy. However not all the settings were made available the only options offered by default are None, Normal, and Extra which are a group of settings for different levels of eye candy. If you want to enable the remaining Compiz settings like

• Desktop Cube
• Water Effect
• Cube Reflection
• Ring Switcher

You need to install the CompizConifg Settings Manager which will open the doors to all the remaning features.

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