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XFINITY Wifi mobile app forces connections to insecure wireless networks
Comcast provides the "XFINITY WiFi" app for Android and iOS mobile devices. In addition to providing maps to branded wifi access points, the app instructs iOS users to install a device profile. This profile configures mobile devices to connect to open, insecure networks without any warning to users. (Note: the iOS app is examined in this post, ( Read more... ) -
Nothing ever changes.
"...the illusions of nationalism allowed the underlying population to believe that the common good was bound up with the business advantage of these captains of solvency into whose service the national establishment was gradually drawn ... Uncritical devotion to the national pretensions being a meritorious habit, it is also a useful article of ( Read more... ) -
Internet Update
So just to keep a running history of this stuff really, I ditched Sonic a couple of months ago for Comcast "Business" internet service. I already get cable tv from them, four cablecards that have been miraculously trouble-free (knock on wood). So adding 12mbps internet service and voice turned out to be cheaper than the DSL from Sonic and POTS ( Read more... ) -
Cleaning up Redhat/Fedora
So I discovered that 'yum erase avahi' removes a stupendous list of complete garbage from a fresh install easily. There are a few packages that somehow are dependencies that are collateral damage that you'll probably want to reinstall immediately afterwards ( Read more... ) -
Dear Apple iTunes people.
1. You made the laptop computer.
2. You made the OS running on the laptop computer.
3. You made the iTunes program running on the OS on the laptop computer.
4. You made the iPod.
5. You made the OS running on the iPod.
6. You even made the frigging dock cable plugging the iPod into the computer.
Thu Sep 10 22:51:05 ernie \[0x0-0x1d01d\].com.apple. ( Read more... ) -
Razoo
[EDIT: As is often the case, the malfunction occurred much closer to home. Turns out (as I had sort of suspected) that I signed up for service on their site myself; so I could contribute to the EFF. Razoo are great people and tried very hard to help me figure out how my account was created ( Read more... ) -
i made a new userpic
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Speakeasy vs. Sonic DSL
So I recently made a change from Speakeasy over to Sonic.net. It was a little sad for me, since Speakeasy overall had been very good to me for the last four years. Their network performed well, and their customer service was friendly, helpful, and generally very clueful ( Read more... ) -
4/9/2009 NEVAR FORGET
always there
a constant reminder
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