IT Legends – Tech in Connecticut

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I have been wanting to watch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World for a few years now. I never got around to it and when it was out in the theater, I wasn’t going to the theater much. So its on hulu.com, I figure I’ll watch it, even though I have the annoying stutter going on. I have a theory that it just could be my router. I’ll be replacing my home router with the (more…)

Well, it happened.  I was at Panera in Glastonbury, CT and was actually using my HTC Modem (for some reason the free Panera WiFi link wasn’t working today) and was writing some stuff.  I picked up my coffee mug and the bottom edge of the cup hit the laptop screen which tilted the cup and some coffee spilled out onto my laptop!  AAAACK.  OK, don’t panic, I know what to do here.  I shut off the laptop ASAP, unplugged the battery and took out the A/C adapter.  You have to do this folks!  Its when powered circuits get wet that they fail.  If they are not powerwed, things (more…)

So one of the software people at hulu responded to one of my hulu posts. So far, ilya has been pretty great in leading me to some help topics. I’ll let you know if we can narrow down my issue. So far, we’ve identified that I “shouldn’t” have one based on my computer and Internet stats.

So I bought this phone, I kinda like it. I decided what the hey, maybe I’ll check out using it as a USB modem. So far, not bad. Its got the nice wireless EVDO broadband and the modem link works pretty well. I can’t receive calls when I’m linked up, but I can deal with that. I’m using it now to post here. There seems to be an issue with using SSL VPN (via my Astaro Security Gateway), but maybe I have to use a different type of VPN to get that to work with this connection. It does connect, but (more…)