I always thought there was something really strange about the WHOIS searches done at Registrars. Specifically the searches would have to be done on their website, a normal "whois" lookup through Linux wouldn't show up registered the next day.

A story is developing regarding domain name registrar Network Solutions front running domains. According to multiple sources on DomainState.com, it appears that domains searched via NSI are being purchased by the registrar thereby preventing a registrant from purchasing it at any other registrar other than NSI. As an example, a random domain which DNN searches such as HowDoesThisDomainTasteTaste.com can be seen in this whois search to now be unavailable to register at other registrars but at NSI it can be purchased

Full article at domainnamenews.com

A Goverment Employee used an On Call IT service to perform a "seven level" format on his hard drive that possibly contained federal evidence.

Scott Bloch runs the Office of Special Counsel, an agency charged with protecting government whistleblowers and enforcing a ban on federal employees engaging in partisan political activity.

You can find the list of 100 of the first domain names ever registered at http://www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com

Which has the full list, and what rolls in at number one? Well its SYMBOLICS.COM!

You can check out the full list here.

I noticed quite a few of my visitors are finding my article about

MySQL Thread Caching and a Busy Site

And looking for the http://www.ftatalk.com mirror.

Heres the mirror http://www.satfix.net most of the articles on http://www.ftatalk.com are located on this site so just load it up, register and go.

It looks as though Comcast has fired a few employees for talking out of script.

In the wake of the discovery that Comcast is blocking some peer-to-peer traffic (and even blocking some Lotus Notes e-mails), the company is attempting to keep the PR machine well-oiled by giving customer tech support reps some talking points. And if they deviate from the script and admit that Comcast has been using Sandvine to send forged TCP reset packets, they're likely to lose their jobs.

Although this is the first time I've heard of Hulu, I'm sure its not the first time most readers have heard of Hulu. A joint venture by NBC and NewsCorp provide its tv shows, moves and mashups of AOL (TWX), Comcast (CMCSA), MSN (MSFT), MySpace, and Yahoo (YHOO). Some of the shows and movies that will be available are shown on Hulu's main page of their site. Some include Hero's, Conan, Arrested Development, 24hrs and Battlestar Galactica. I've already signed up to be apart of their beta, you can too by visiting their main page at http://www.hulu.com

Read the full article at newteevee.com

Hitachi has released their new 35mm thick LCD's, if you take a look at some of the pictures you will see just how slim this product is. They have released three different sizes of the TV in 32", 37" and 42". Hitachi is now the first company to officially have the world's first thinnest LCD TV's.

MySpace is trying to drive more visitors to its site, or rather keep the visitors from leaving them for Facebook. It looks as though the games will be provided by a 3rd Party company that has private label games.

MySpace is set to launch a new casual games area on the site early next year, reports The Wall Street Journal. The games will be provided by Oberon Media, a company that specializes in developing private label gaming sites for major Internet brands including Yahoo and Microsoft.

It looks as though Dell has reached a deal with the Office Supply Chain Staples to offer Dell products within their stores. You will see Dell equipment sold inside Staples starting November 11th.

Dell has reached a deal with the office supply chain Staples to offer Dell desktop and notebook computers, monitors, printers, ink, and toner. Starting November 11, Staples will begin selling Dell products both in its physical stores and online at Staples.com. Initial models to be sold in the Staples chains include the Inspiron 1721 and 1521 notebooks, and Inspiron 530 desktops.

It looks as though the once though anti-aircraft software glitch that killed multiple people in South Africa, actually wasn't software based. But was human intervention and software that caused the incident.

Have you found Digg slow during the peak hours? Well peertopress.com has a top 10 for Kevin Rose on how to speed up Digg. The article was put on Digg's front page, and the comments left on peertopress.com website are pretty hilarious.

If you buy a song off iTunes, you'll be paying a 3 cents for each song in tax. Then new tax is to compensate artists for the reproduction of their songs.

Vito Pilieci, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, October 19, 2007

OTTAWA -- The Copyright Board of Canada has approved new taxes on digital MP3 music files - at least for files that are downloaded legally.

Never really thought and still don't think Powerline based Networking would take off. With the increase in speed to 400Mbps, this will defiantly give a lot of fiber technologies a run for their money.

What happens are your workplace when the internet goes down? Has it ever been down long enough for you to wander the hallways or work in the offline world? Does it even affect your duties?

The United States Goverment has ordered an investigation into possible health concerns over the use of wireless networks and causing health issues within americans.

Nice little story about how The Pirate Bay obtained an anti-piracy Organizations Domain Name IFPI.com

Over at the Ask Apache site there is an article about Google Analytics and how to speed up your page load. You can read it here: Speed Up Google Analytics with Urchin.js

Ever notice that sometimes your sites take a while to load all the way because google's urchin.js file is taking forever?

You may recognize this problem when you see something similar to this in your browsers status bar "Transferring data from google-analytics.com..."
Time To Setup?

4 minutes I got tired of seeing that all the time and so I set up an automated cronjob that runs every 12 hours and downloads the latest version from google, and saves it to my website directory, then I reference /urchin.js instead of http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js.. and my site loads a lot faster!

Shouldn't the Air Force have more than this already implemented? Hopefully this software doesn't take lots of tax money and never go anywhere or even get implemented.

Here's an article from FiringSquad about their trip inside NVIDIA’s Santa Clara campus, which houses many labs and their massive group of grid computers. Good read, images included!

NVIDIA releases a new product, on average, every 6 months. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. But what goes on behind the scenes to make this happen? Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to find out exactly what happens behind NVIDIA’s closed doors. We were given almost unrestricted access to NVIDIA’s many labs and their high-performance computing center; what we saw was impressive.

We were essentially given unfiltered access to see and talk with the people at NVIDIA. The engineers did not have to turn off their monitors when we walked into their labs. We were simply asked to black out any parts of the image that could reveal confidential information.

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Interesting read about Universal partnering with BMG and Warner to develop a new music subscription service to try steal some of the market share that Apples iTunes currently has.

Universal getting ready to take down iTunes? - Universal CEO Doug Morris is looking to partner with Sony BMG and Warner to develop "a new music subscription service that will try to loosen Apple’s grip on the online music market.(more…)[CrunchGear]

I would definitely want to have this laptop. Battery life is one of the key reasons why I like laptops, having to pull out the old charger and find a plug in a coffee shop or Bread Garden is not fun.

NEC's VersaPro VY10A/C-4 laptop lasts 14.5-hours on a single charge NEC's latest VersaPro UltraLite Type VCwon't appeal to any hardcore gamers or mobile movie cutters, but the casual joe (or jane) will likely find its hardware plenty capable of handling those everyday tasks. What's more is that this sucka claims a whopping 14.5-hours of life if you utilize the extended battery, which is pretty impressive for a 12.1-incher.

An interesting technology from Nissan. A car or van in this demonstration is outfitted with camera's on the front, left side, right side and back of the vechile. The camera's then provide video to a lcd screen on the vehicles dash, allowing you to see everything around your vehicle. The story includes a video demonstration of a vehicle parallel parking.

The review and pictures of Dell's first Tablet. The author sum it up stating that the tablet looks like an IBM Thinkpad with its boxiness design.

Top 50 fanboy movies, number one was 'The Godfather' which is true in my books. Lots of other good movies were mentioned as well. If you're looking to watch some classic movies as well, Casablanca and Citizen Kane are also within the top 20.

The Top 100 Fanboy Movies of All Time - Earlier this year AFI re-voted their top 100 American movies of all time. There was much discussion from bloggers and fanboys out there – some more passionate and angered than others. Therefore we spearheaded another vote. We can now put rest speculations of how the fans may have voted for their favorite films, in comparison to the AFI’s.

Just an update from the Pirate Bay in regards to what there current situation is, and a status update on everything that is going on.

Sailing To A New Island With The Pirate Bay - Being in The Pirate Bay team means you have a very busy life. Running the world's largest tracker and dealing with raids and court cases leaves little time for anything else. But as usual, the Pirate Bay guys still make the time to update their fans on their plans to buy an island.

I remember the first Celerons or 'Cellys' back in the day. Cheap and relatively good for someone who can only work on one task at a time. Not for an uber geek or insane multi-tasker as you would be able to tell whether or not you were using a Celeron by just sitting down and using the PC for 15 minutes. Either way, an affordable alternative to the current Intel Core Duos.

Intel Preps Dual-Core Celeron Microprocessors - Multi-core chips are sweeping the processor market and single cores are becoming harder and harder to find. This trend is about to go through the roof while prices plummet to the basement.

I use to work for an ISP and was head of the Abuse Department. We only really received legitimate DCMA's that were then handled by legal. We didn't really seem to get that many DMCA notices, maybe its because we're a Canadian organization?

Corporate critics feel the stinging lash of DMCA misuse - Two recent cases show that companies aren't always fans of criticism, and some will file misguided DMCA notices and defamation cases to scrub it from the Internet.Read More...

Intel's new motherboard X38 is seeing the light of day. One of the biggest features is the DDR3 support on the board. More details below and within each review of the Asus and MSI version that was reviewed.

This could be a damaging blow to quite a few companies within the United States. For instance, take a dedicated server hosting company that relies on one of many hardware vendors like Dell or HP (Hewlett-Packard). Its possible that said vendor will have stock pile of hard drives. Put lets put this into perspective.

If you read the entire article you will see a similar situation that ended with Broadcom filing a complaint against Qualcomm. The International Trade Commission banned Qualcomm from shipping any new chips and hardware into the United Sates, and any chips that were already being shipped to the United States could continue. The ban lasted for 45 days, until an appeal by Qualcomm was successful and then the ban was lifted.

Another hacker finds a way to cause some trouble within eBay's system, using an old administration system.

Hacker exploits forgotten eBay administrative system - A hacker disabled an assortment of eBay user accounts on Friday after gaining access to the vestigial components of an old eBay administrative system.Read More...