Archive for March, 2005

New study on oil depletion… Let’s start our preparations now.

In the post View from the Peak, WorldChanging brought to my attention a story at Salon about a report by respected energy research group John S. Herold, Inc. about peak oil estimates of various oil companies. The Salon article makes a few conclusions from the research. Herold’s projections have enormous ramifications both for stockholders...

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DoS (Denial of Service) Attacks against DSLReports.com

DSLReports.com has recently come under a few DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. Some have speculated that it relates to their coverage of the Pluto Data credit card theft coverage. The coverage made it into an article at MSNBC.com that mentioned BroadBandReports.com (same website as DSLReports.com). Regardless of why it happened, it has happened. The...

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DSM-320 Digital Media Receiver

I purchased a D-Link DSM-320 Digital Media Receiver some time back. This product interested me as it was a video thin client of sorts. The DSM-320 utilizes Intel’s UPnP AV protocol which attempts to create a standard method for consumers to distribute media throughout their homes. Devices like these will likely play a large...

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