Ramblings of a Lunatic

Friday, May 16, 2003

High Speed Internet Subscribers on the Rise

I just got cable internet from Cableone.net last year. and to tell you the truth, I don't know how I survived prior to that with dial-up. It has made me use the internet for just about everything though. It's just so convenient to have "always on" internet access.

I realized how much I rely on broadband the other day when I was putting together a Linux box just to tinker with. Unfortunately, the ethernet card was bad and I had to rely on my old trusty 56K modem. I didn't end up using it for anything other than setting email parameters and checking them because I could not stand to wait on the pages to load. And as far as updates, forget it. I just waited until I could go grab another card. you can read about the increase in subscribers Speeding's the ticket for U.S. surfers. The number of Americans with high-speed Internet access rose to 19 million in the first months of 2003, giving both cabl>here.

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Safari Updated

Since I reported last week on the vulnerability in Safari, I feel the need to report Apple has fixed the problem. You can read about it Apple Updates Safari Public Beta [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]">here.
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Bush on Rushmore?
Now, how about this pic of president Bush?

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