I'm am pretty upset about this. A Florida based personal information brokerage company appealed to the state Supreme Court for the personal data of drivers accross the state.  Their claim was based upon the fact that public information is covered by a 1997 federal law that required the release of personal information to duly constituted authorites AND THEIR CONTRACTORS.

 They won.

I just thought I'd post about a product I find tremendously useful. ClarkConnect is a free, closed source Linux distribution. Its focus is on being one of the best SOHO or Small Business Router and Firewall appliance. It can be setup in about 15 minutes and offers the features of routers costing many thousands of dollars. Add in the magic word 'FREE' and some solid support and its a winner in my book.

Here's a feature list:

At least according to PC World. Its an interesting point they make. But, I will say that I'm quite happy with the scurity of my Vista systems. Heck, I've been happy with Windows since SP2 and IE7 came out for XP.  Here's the link on Digg .

Here's a woman who signed up for the 'unlimited' plan @ $59 a month and at the end of the month received a bill for -- $14062.27. Yes, you read that right, fourteen thousand dollars. Oh, and her service never actually worked.

  Here's a link to the video on Youtube: Largest Sprint Bill Ever

And, thanks to the Consumerist you can call a direct line to Sprint, just in case you need to discuss this.

I was recently given the chance by a friend of mine to help her setup her new Asus Eee UMPC. My first impression of this thing when I first started with it was, "Holy cow how am I ever going to be able to fit my big hands on that tiny keyboard". From then on, it was really smooth sailing. The OS they pre-load on it is a custom Asus rendition of Xandros Linux running IceWM as the window manager, and I have to say, they really put some thought and effort into this thing. I was immediately impressed with the layout of the GUI. There are tabs at the top of the screen to switch between your different sections, for example Internet applications, Games, Education and Settings. Then inside of those tabs are icons that are literally your computer background...that's right, there is no computer background, your background is an interactive icon style navigation tool. I just thought that this was the neatest thing ever! Exploring a little more, it's pretty easy to setup things like wireless network and user preferences. However, in exploring I came to find out that they had hidden the terminal somewhere, and I needed it to configure the wireless to use WPA Enterprise. Come to find out, after finding the terminal, that many other Eee users were having the same wireless issues and that the Eee was actually incapable of doing it regardless of what you try to do to it. So, needless to say I was very disappointed. So I gave my friend two options. It explains in the manual how you can use an external CDROM drive to install windows XP (Very smart move Asus) and I said I could either install Windows XP, but she would need to buy a USB cd drive and they run about $50 or I told her I could try this thing I found that by putting Ubuntu on a Pendrive and then booting from that, I could install Ubuntu Linux on her Eee and it would then be capable of getting on the wireless....