Lobster Burner

Cost of broad Band

Over the past five to seven years the vast popularity and availability of broadband internet access has grown in to an industry in which a number of Internet Service Providers have become king. These elite group of ISPs’ are the cable companies which include Time Warner and Comcast, These two cable providers have the control of the Broadband internet connection market place, They use their domination to engage in unfair pricing practices which include differing introductory pricing schemes across different target markets. They also require first time customers and those whom have poor credit score to put down a deposit ahead of initiating a new service.

One method of price control the FTC could use is to enact a mandatory universal price cap upon these companies. This would dictate to the cable conglomerates the absolute peak price that they could charge for a basic internet connection account. The FTC should require all cable corporations to do away with prorated first month service and initiation charges. They should also provide the customer with net gear modems and router at no additional cost to the customer.

have been using computers sens the age of 5 (15+ years). That is ,k. Windows9x/ME.XP and Vista ( which I hated and promptly ditched it and ran back to XP). Not to mention flip flopping through every Linux distribution From gentoo to Fedora and every distribution in between The Irony in the distribution hopping is that I started out it on Ubuntu back in 2005 (15 years old) after ten years of usind dos,windows 3.1, windows9X/me and XP and Vista ( HATED IT WITH A VENGEANCE) and running back to Ubuntu or Even Debian.

Pros Linux:

Free

Works on every Plat form Sparc to Itainium and every platform in between

Detected My HP Photo Smart C4200 series 4280 model series Printer and Dell 2005 FPW Flat Panel monitor

Out of the Box printer and File Sharing with Mac OS ( Winsdows requires several hours of registry hacking.

CONS Linux :

More configuration required

Possibility of IRQ and or DMA address conflict or faliure to boot (mostly pre 2.6 build kernel.

Pros Windows:

Point and click

More Software available

Lions Share of the Market

Cons windows:

Need for a Sixty to 150 dollar a year security sofware up date subscriptions

Annoying continuous Nagging from Windows Update

SPY WARE

OUT SOURCING OF JOBS TO THIRD WORLD Countries

After nearly a year I have completed my CompTIA A + Essentials and CompTIA A+ Depot (220-604) Technician with 785 out of 900. The Depot technician is one of the two hardest electives on the A + because it deals with the difficult tasks of a bench technician which in clued configuring network infrastructure and Installation and configuration of both clients and servers as well as maintaining and feature proofing network infrastructure.

After seven or eight months of studding I passed the ComPTia A+ Essentials (2007 220-602) certification exam. My final grade was a 755 of 900 which is a pretty good grade considering how long I took before sitting for the exam. I plan to take the ComPTia (220-604 Depot Technician) Elective in late February or early march. I will post and p date here after taking the Depot Tecnichian elective

Back in early September I purchased a 3DFusiobn NVidia GeForce 6200 LE at a discount from my local Office depot, The card lasrted fine for about two and three quarters months. The a few days ago I was work on my computer as normal, however ididn't hear the Video card fan running.

I shut down the machine and put it on my work bench and removed the bad video card. Then las wednesday I went to the Evga website and purchased a Evge Nvida GeForce 8400 gs, which shoukld arive eithe late to day or early to marrow.

I will post up dates here as they come up.