Daily Internet Digest

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Maintaining a network of home computers can be quite a dilemma if you have not even the simplest and most basic tools in trouble shooting your network. There will come a time when you’ll be needing some items to assist you in quickly reparing your pc and internet connection. You can just simply provide a small shelf in your closet. If you just dont have that space, maybe look for a small shelf, if for an unfortunate reason you dont have a shelf, look for a drawer. A complete loser you can be if you dont have a drawer to spare. In that case go find yourself a card board box. Make it nice and put some label in it so you can easily find it when you suddenly look for it. A basic computer toolkit maust have a Phillips screwdriver, a wire cutter, wire stripper and cable crimping tool that will work for your cable types. You also must have a network cable in hand. SO the next time you buy a cable, buy twice as much so you can keep a spare supply. Because somewhere in time you will need them.

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Web radio is quite strange for us, but it has steadily grown into the user’s way of life. Sort of a habit when surfing.There are thousands of radio stations worldwide, by going online, these stations can each a global audience. How cool can that be? One thing you’re listening to your favorite local station, the next you might be dancing to the beat of a Chinese DJ. Internet radio revolutionized the way we listen to music. It has put us in total control. You can listen to what you want, when you want it. But behind the scene is the great technology that makes this all possible. It is called streaming audio. “Streaming” means that you don’t have to download the entire music file before you can play it. Once a small amount of the file is buffered, the audio begins. An you can enjoy that hard rocking music, you’ve been longing to hear.

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The Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M) driver seems to be the one you’re looking for.  You desire to put that on a CD or floppy and when you start installing xp the blue screen with white text appears on the far end “Press F6 if you need to install a SCSI or RAID driver….” press F6 and put in your disk with the sata driver. I found plenty of sites with the driver download by just googling “Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)”.

People with notebooks usually don’t have a USB Floppy to install SATA drivers from, so you will also have to use nLite to merge them with install CD, or search in BIOS Setup for an entry like “SATA Native mode” and set it to disabled - that will allocate legacy software to detect your HDD as a normal PATA drive.

You have to install the SATA driver earlier than turning the native support off.

Four of the top newspaper companies in the country have teamed-up and invested in ad network, quadrantONE. The New York Times Company, Gannett, Hearst Corp. and the Tribune Company will work on offering a more effective and more attractive package for advertisers that target a wider public audience. The four companies will launch a coordinated advertising sales network by pooling together their inventories to offer a more attractive package for advertisers looking to reach a national audience.

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This is the second time that Facebook has made a booboo. Wasn’t it only last year that this particular social utility added a “news feeds” feature which only resulted to threatened protests from many of Facebook’s users. The company apologized, and I think it needs to do that again as there are reports of new complaints regarding a recently launched marketing program that apparently allows users and friends to see their online purchases. Facebook has been making steps to alleviate the situation but personally I think they need to hasten as a lot of users are getting pissed about how they put it as an invasion of their privacy.

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Launched in April 2007, the Chinese version of MySpace, has a lot of censorship-related disparities from the global editions of the service. Topics of discussion in forums such as religion and politics are not present and they have a system that strains that averts of posting sensitive topics like the independence of Taiwan, Falun gong and the Dalai Lama and several more “inapt issues” has been included. The users are now capable of reporting the “transgression” of offensive users involved in “jeopardizing national security”, spilling state secrets, sabotaging the government, discouragement national unity, and rumors going around distracting social order.

Who could have thought two students from Standford University started this hypothesis and years later, into the well-known, big time with big earnings (they have a net income of US$4.203 billion), Google. They have their search engine (just type in www.google.com), they have your basic email account (Gmail), and you’d always visit this site for videos (Youtube). They have made a lot or projects that all turned into success. They currently have 19,156 employees working on their Googleplex (their heeadquarters) in Mountain View, California. They have secured large partnerships with MySpace and AOL as well. They have been Fortune Magazine’s #1 place to work!

In Multiply, a prospective seller posts pictures of items he or she wants to sell. It ranges from clothes, gadgets, accessories, food and anything else you can think of selling. Some sellers even sell their second hand items (of course, it must be in good condition, if not, the price should be lower than expected). The role of the buyers: they go to Multiply (even better if they have their own Multiply account, some sellers consider that too), search for an item they want, and visit various Multiplt accounts that have them. They will have to choose, to the item, click the picture (infos like price or dimensions are posted) then have it reserved, pay for it, then it will be at your doorstep in a few days.

In some countries (mostly in South East Asia), shopping can be done even without putting your feet in a mall. This makes shopping at the comfort of your own home. All you have to do is log in to the internet, go to Multiply, visit a site that sells items, inquire about it, reserve it, pay for it, then have it delivered at your house in a 2-3 days. Oh yes you read it right, go to Multiply. Multiply is a social-network site just like MySpace and Facebook. You add your friends, make a blog, post pictures, put graphics, music, etc.

People who go on blind-dates sometimes have to lie about certain details about them to get their dates to like them. Internet socializing is just the same, it’s even hard to prove because you can’t see the person, maybe just with a picture and that’s it. People in the internet can lie about their age and even the gender. Some people will just do about anything to get your attention and hook up with it. Internet socializing sites are one of the best things these days, but warn the kids with extreme caution; you are not separating them from the computer until their 30, just advising them what’s right or wrong.