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Stories · 6

  1. Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the more-than-one-equals-a-trend dept. · 655 comments
    Ant writes "Broadband Reports says that 14 and possibly more states that have or will pass(ed) bills banning community-run broadband. Free Pass shows a map breakdown of the states while Tallahassee.com takes a look at a newly proposed bill in Florida, backed by Sprint, BellSouth, Verizon, and Comcast, designed to bog down the muni-development process."

  2. Getting Broadband To The Bayou

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the hoo-wee dept. · 274 comments
    Caseylite points out an article in USA Today "about the struggle between the city of Lafayette, Louisiana and BellSouth. The big telecom objects to the city installing its own fiber-optic network, claiming unfair competition. The city says its goal is bringing high-speed data access to low income areas to break the poverty cycle, stating a link between broadband access and education and employment."

  3. Switching from Phone to Voice-Over-IP?

    Ask · Upgrades · · posted by Cliff · from the searching-for-the-pitfalls dept. · 103 comments
    An anonymous reader asks: "I am fed up with the telcos. My last phone bill for one line was over $100 _without_ the $45 for ADSL, so i'm looking to cut as many costs as I can. I've compared my current Voice + Internet solution to one consisting of Voice-over-IP and Cable Internet and it looks like I would save over $50 a month by throwing away my land-line phone and switching to Cable/VoIP. I'm new to the whole changing-from-POTS-to-VoIP process though, so what are some of the 'gotchas' involved with switching? Can I keep my existing number? Will calls suck my bandwidth dry? And most importantly, do any of these VoIP providers work with or support Linux?"

  4. NASA Prepares The SIRTF For Launch

    Science · Space · · posted by timothy · from the up-in-the-air-junior-birdman dept. · 14 comments
    Anonymous Coward writes "NASA is ready to button up the SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility) probe for launch. The panorama is of the clean room at Hangar AE on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as the SIRTF team makes final adjustments."

  5. Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS?

    Linux · Linux · · posted by Cliff · from the protecting-your-personal-data dept. · 297 comments
    slick_rick asks: "I'm looking for info on encrypted file systems under Linux to help my employers company move away from Microsoft centric solutions. However the latest HOWTO is two years old, the latest kernel patch dates back to April (and 2.4.3) and even the Sourceforge project has nearly zero documentation and appears to be very dead. Are slashdotters using encrypted file systems? If so, what are your experiences?" We last talked about this topic, just over a year ago, in this article.

  6. BellSouth denies ADSL for Linux users

    Tech · Technology · · posted by Hemos · from the dumb-dumb-and-dumb dept. · 233 comments
    GiMP and 200 others wrote "C|Net has this story about the difficulty of getting ADSL from Bell South for linux machines, and the protest from users in the afflicted areas. " This story has been coming up a lot today. Hopefully the negative coverage will force BellSouth to relent.