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Digg has become a standard in the Technology Blogosphere. Digg can be a useful tool, a source of entertainment, and an object to be avoided at the same time. Many times Digg has been compared to a drug with an initial rush and following crash, it can be a cruel thing. Here is a closer look at Digg and its effect upon the Blogosphere.

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We all knew it was coming. I woke up this morning to see the majority of my professional RSS feeds clamoring about how Google has launched a new productivity suite and what a surprise it was. The going trend of the current Internet culture is to take everything to the Internet and detach your applications and users from physical desktops, theoretically increasing collaboration and mobile productivity. I will admit I am a rather large fan of some of the services that Google has released lately but the idea of using their Word-processor, Writely, to edit and create my files online seems a bit fishy especially in regards to the fact that all my data will be stored online in servers that I cannot guarantee will be safe and secure.

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In todays modern computing field lots of terms get thrown around rather frequently such as SSL, HTTP, FTP, and SSH just to mention a few. I myself didn’t know what SSH meant until recently when I began experimenting with server grade operating systems and remotely patching into the systems for administration purposes. I figured if I was confused about a few terms then there might be a few other people that could use a little bit of clearing up.

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When Vista/Longhorn was first announced their feature sets were huge with so many innovative technologies being incorporated into this new operating system. Unfortunately from the start Microsoft began cutting features left and right in an attempt to get the product out the door. In yet another blow to Vista and the consumer, Microsoft has cut support in 32-bit versions of Vista to play back HD content. Too bad this time around it wasn’t an issue of time but of corporate pressure.

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It feels like it was just a few weeks ago when I reviewed Azureus and a few other Bittorrent clients. Once again I have another little review of for you guys, Azureus 2.5.0.0. This new release features a few security and bug fixes but two items mentioned in the changelog really stick out, the ability to link to your active torrents, and the adjustment of CPU usage especially when connected to a large quantity of peers

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Over the last couple of years companies have been hyping broadband Internet and saying it is one hundred bajillion times faster than dial-up. What they haven’t been telling you is that the initial latency times between dial-up and broadband are a lot closer than one would think. ISPs(Internet Service Providers) have been investing billions of dollars into their fiber networks however there is a serious flaw in their networks, DNS lookup times.

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I have avoided touching Linux over the extent of computing lifetime however I have reached the point where Linux stands between me and my goals so I have taken the time to actually download a linux distribution and utilize it. I have been notorious for using Linux distributions for good torrent testing but this will be a first so it should be very interesting. Just as a heads up if you have any advice feel free to share, I have years of stuff to learn in a few months.

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In a few short years Google has quickly cut a path through the online world with its world renown search engine and recently with its communication system through GMail and GTalk. With an estimated 41 datacenters spread across the globe and billions of dollars in capital Google is by far one of the largest components of the Internet yet they haven’t even touched the actual Internet, until now.

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