It's really great to see the influx of ideas from 5 years ago starting to hit the main stream in force. "How does the mobile passerby know about us? How can local business share updates, coupons, announcements to people in the area?"
- Aaron Baer
Sometimes making things more complicated than they need to be because it sounds awesome and is really fun. However, when it really comes down to it simplifying things is the way to go.
- Aaron Baer
good. "If you issue a query for a domain name that does not exist, Google Public DNS always returns an NXDOMAIN record, as per the DNS protocol standards."
- Aaron Baer
This is the type of thing we fought for so long ago with The Personal Telco Project. Is this fight still alive? It was a hard message for many to either grasp or care about. What's the 2x4 that needs to be used upside the head to remind people that a communities power comes from openness, accessibility, and the knowledge to create and control their means of communication. "Most communities that are disadvantaged are still trying to win on networks that they don't own and will never control. Most of us are still cheering when the most powerful voices in culture and society embrace closed networks, instead of properly criticizing them for doing so."
- Aaron Baer
I noticed a significant disruption today around 1pm that I can't determine the cause. Another function that I can't explain yet is that directly dialing 1800 numbers out of the account seems to be disrupted as well. It might take a day or so to determine if service have really changed. Anyhoooo.. good stuff .. good stuff..
- Aaron Baer
After my monthly billing for my Internet and Phone service rose $25 dollars in one month I decided that it was time to buckle down and work on something that I had been thinking about for a long time. Zero dollar per year phone service including long distant. The goal was building a highly functioning [...]
- Aaron Baer
The thought of buying a used iPhone has always crossed my mind especially since the Touch still doesn't have a camera. Pulling the sim and just using it with a wifi connect and Skype..
- Aaron Baer
The thought of buying a used iPhone has always crossed my mind especially since the Touch still doesn't have a camera. Pulling the sim and just using it with a wifi connect and Skype..
- Aaron Baer
Today there was a post on Facebook Security ’s Notes page titled Inside a Hacker Chat which is something that actually happened to me one night back in June. Fortunately I was also able to determine right away that the person at the other keyboard pretending to be my friend Rick was not in fact Rick [...]
- Aaron Baer