You are being preyed on

Do you have a free checking account? A free credit card? Do you perhaps even get money back from your credit card company? Ever wonder who pays for all these freebies? This Frontline report (also embedded below) provides some answers and sheds light on the shady things going on in …

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Singing the praises of

Here's a chicken-and-egg problem for you. And you can be part of the egg. I'll show you how in a minute.

I bet you've noticed that bajillions of websites have little links that say "next" and "previous", right? Like previous page, previous item, previous whatever. And sometimes there's "up", too …

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D*mn sp*mmers

Ok, the spammers yet again figured out how to circumvent my anti-spam measures. So yet again, I've disabled anonymous commenting. Only this time it's final. And I have a mess of seven bajillion comments to clean up.

I'm just so sick of these people: :barf:

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Comcast, DHCP and MTU

If you are a Comcast customer (particularly in Illinois) and your Voice-over-IP (or other large-UDP-packet-using) application does not work as it should, don't worry, it's their fault. :P

For some reason, they include

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OPTION:  26 (  2) Interface MTU             576
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in the replies from their DHCP servers, which leads your computer …

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Losing my Faith in Debian

I really do not like the way things are going in recent times within the Debian project. I feel that a group of people has gained way too much control over how things are run, and those people do not seem to care about users, they seem to care about …

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LinuxTag is not free any more (Update: or is it?)

Just now, I was thinking about which weekend I'd have to reserve to go to LinuxTag, which will be taking place in my current home town, Karlsruhe. Turns out that I don't even need to decide that: They will be charging 35€ to get in this time around. The show …

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Don't shop at K&M

If you ever thought about shopping at K&M Elektronik, don't do it. They suck. Here's why:

I bought a wireless card from them a while ago, which, over time, bit the bulletkicked the bucket. I am supposing that I was seeing thermal problems, since the card would always …

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