7/23    Internet's first router:
        http://www.wimp.com/firstrouter
        \_ Wow!  And the first VoIP phone!  Notice that the fans on that
           hardware look just like the fans these days.
           \_ I'm typing on an IBM Clicky Clacky Keyboard.

7/13    http://www.newsweek.com/1995/02/26/the-internet-bah.html
        Why The Internet will never amount to anything.
        \_ More like why I try as much as possible to never buy anything
           online.
        \_ It's funny but when you started to be able to buy flights online
           the whole "fly by standby" thing just dissappeared.  Sigh.
           \_ What, you expect spontaneity to be a cultural trademark of
              the nerd generation?

4/21    "Your fastest Internet in the world is found in Berkeley, CA"
         http://www.csua.org/u/qlt (arstechnica.com)
        \_ lies, damned lies, statistics, and pandering to the crowd.

3/3     If you read this
        http://www.net.berkeley.edu/dhcp/faq.shtml
        and find why it's funny, you're an old Soda geek.  -John
        \_ Nice. Any idea who might have written this? erikk, maybe? There
           are probably a lot of Sodans in IST. -not-that-old-Soda-geek
           \_ Jon?
        \_ Scanning it, I see reference to Phil. What others?

11/4    Holy cow, I got a warning from my ISP that they were notified
        by BSA/baytsp.com that I was copying music/video/software.
        Do they do port scan or something? That's a first for me.
        \_ They hang out on P2P networks and track IP addresses.  -tom
           \_ I believe they are paid by content providers to perform this
              monitoring service, so you should only run this risk with content
              from certain sources (such as Fox movies)
              \_ That's probably true.  -tom

9/25    What's a nslookup equivalent to look up "set type=all"? I don't
        have nslookup anymore.
        \_ I think nslookup is deprecated and you're supposed to be using
           dig and host now.  Do you want the equiv 'host' acommand?
           \_ is it host -av <host>?

9/13    $100M just for creating a map of broadband coverge in the US!
        http://www.csua.org/u/p1v (tech.yahoo.com)
        \_ More porn for THE PEOPLE!!! Obamamama is great!!!
           \_ You are right, it would be much better to spend that money
              blowing shit up in Iraq.
        \_ Your article has been classified as: mistruths and
           misunderstandings.

6/3     Any phone geeks on here?  I want to get a new smartphone, preferably
        with wifi, touchscreen, and 3.5mm headphone jack.  I don't plan to pay
        the monthly $$ for a data plan though, since wifi is good enough for
        me.  That rules out the iPhone due to AT&T's policies.
        Maybe I should get some sort of Nokia N-series.
        \_ Wait one week and get a pre?
           \_ 2 days. but it will have a data plan as well.
        \_ I'm happy with a Blackberry 8320 (with WiFi) from T-Mobile, but in
           order to get everything working via WiFi (e.g. Google Maps, Google
           Mobile, Yahoo! Messenger etc) you need to sign up with their Black
           Berry plan (just for a month), get the service book pushed to your
           phone, then you can cancel it. Then your phone works OK in your WiFi.
           Of course if you just want Safari browser, you can do it right out
           of the box.