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8 Gig Flash Drive in Swiss Army Knife

Moving in to the 21st century Victorinox Swiss Army has introduced a modern line of pocket knives that include luxuries like a USB flash drive and a high intensity LED light. Other standard features include a pen, scissors, nail file/flat head screw driver, and of course the knife itself. As a bonus [...]

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Posted on Sep 26th, 2008

Comcast employee cancels my internet after receiving complaint

I’ve never been too big a fan of Comcast. At the begining they were nice, but after a months their services just tanked. There would be packet loss at random times of the day, usually during around lunch till dinner time. The web would suddenly grind to agonizing speeds, leaving some [...]

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Posted on Mar 21st, 2008

Xbox 360 Red Ring Of Death Fix

Since the beginning, the Xbox 360 has been an extremely unreliable. Some reports indicate that up to 16.4% of them fail, while its competitors the PS3, and Wii are at 3%. Up to 60% of these failures were caused by the red ring of death. Team Xecuter has now come up [...]

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Posted on Feb 17th, 2008

Comcast Admits Bandwidth Throttling Under FCC Pressure

For months now Comcast has been under scrutiny on how they ran their network and treat their customers. From their P2P throttling, to the invisible bandwidth cut off mark, there have been thousands of dissatisfied customers. Comcast, now under pressure from the FCC is being a little more open about how their [...]

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Posted on Feb 14th, 2008

Who’s Not Using OpenDNS Yet?

OpenDNS was founded in 2006 and ever since then I’ve been addicted to it. Each time I’m diagnosing network issues I manually add the magic numbers for DNS. The four simple numbers are 4.2.2.1; forever embedded in to my memory. So why do I use it you ask it? For [...]

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Posted on Feb 13th, 2008

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