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Netflix burns the bridges | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. Netflix burns the bridges. Thu, 09/29/2011 - 21:46 sprior. Netflix has made a bold move, but I believe it did so too early. Netflix has always known that a pure streaming model was its ultimate goal, physical DVDs were just a temporary measure until everyone had enough bandwidth to make streaming work - the name Netflix doesnt even really make much sense for shipping physical media. With this timing however Netflix jumped the gun and heres why.
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Overscan is still an issue when using a home theater PC with a HDTV (or a game console) | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. Overscan is still an issue when using a home theater PC with a HDTV (or a game console). Sun, 05/23/2010 - 21:07 sprior. Last Summer I was experimenting with using a Windows 7 machine as a home theater PC and ran into an issue I thought was obsolete - overscan. Why do I care? What can you do about it? What if my TV does not have a 1 for 1 pixel mode? But Im using a home theater PC, my screen is clipped and my TV doesnt have a one for one pixel mode, what are my options? Before the...
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Getting the Cisco VPN client working on Windows 7 64 bit using Virtual XP mode | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. Getting the Cisco VPN client working on Windows 7 64 bit using Virtual XP mode. Sun, 05/23/2010 - 21:14 sprior. Because 64 bit is required to support more than 3G of system RAM pretty much every machine you can buy today not only comes with Windows 7, but 64 bit Windows 7. The only downside is that this solutions requires an upgrade to Windows 7 Professional which is not otherwise needed for most home users, and that upgrade costs about $100.
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SOPA | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. Religion, World Peace, Intellectual Property, and Sugary Beverages - another view on why SOPA was so bad. Mon, 02/13/2012 - 20:46 sprior.
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Windows 8 | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. Why Windows 8 and beyond is a bigger shift than consumers may realize. Mon, 12/09/2013 - 15:27 sprior. When Windows 8.1 came out users starting asking if this means that Microsoft is backing away from some of the changes they made in Windows 8. Most tech journalists seemed to answer that they werent sure. Well Im sure, the answer is no and heres why and whats going to happen over the next 5-10 years.
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We need a Wifi bandwidth/data caps whitelist for automatic updates | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. We need a Wifi bandwidth/data caps whitelist for automatic updates. Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:17 sprior. The first step though is getting developers to start thinking about this issue.
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pfSense, my next router/firewall | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. PfSense, my next router/firewall. Sat, 09/17/2011 - 23:13 sprior. Multiple static IPs on the WAN interface. Port fowarding with the ability to remap port numbers (external port 80 maps to port 8080 in an internal machine would be an example). Easier administration interface than I had before. Then one day I was browsing newegg.com. S basrebones server product reviews and saw mention of how well some of them ran pfSense. If youre looking for a firewall setup which starts off easy t...
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Consumer Hall of Shame. Religion, World Peace, Intellectual Property, and Sugary Beverages - another view on why SOPA was so bad. Mon, 02/13/2012 - 20:46 sprior.
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windows 7 | geekster.com
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Consumer Hall of Shame. Getting the Cisco VPN client working on Windows 7 64 bit using Virtual XP mode. Sun, 05/23/2010 - 21:14 sprior.