As I write this sitting at home, I am looking down at 3 and 4 bars of AT&T 3G!!! It would seem that AT&T has made good and turned on tower 310410-16920-206172994, which I believe is located in Tansi behind Hiawatha Lake. My house sits in the overlap between this new AT&T tower, and tower [...]

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I just received my Asus Transformer Prime Android Tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich. Being a person who loves to customize my gadgets around a uniform theme, I started to create some custom wallpapers for my new device. I discovered quite quickly that switching between Landscape/Horizontal and Portrait/Vertical posed some interesting changes for creating custom wallpapers. [...]

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Congress right now is considering two bills, that if passed will cripple the Internet in America. In the Senate it’s called the PROTECT IP Act, S.968. The House it’s called the Stop Online Piracy Act, H.R.3261.The rationale is that big media companies are lossing profits to “piracy”, so they have lobbied (i.e. bribed) congress to pass legislation to lock down the [...]

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TCG will be doing some fundraising soon. We are looking to organize a couple of LAN parties this winter to benefit the United Fund of Cumberland County. In getting geared up for this, we have opened up our first game server! Right now we are hosting an Urban Terror server at: games.taborcg.com (207.144.150.60) If you are interested in trying it out [...]

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The purpose of this guide is to show how to create new users WITH “Legacy FileVault” enabled on upgraded or fresh installs of OSX 10.7 Lion. For years, the “solution” given to us by Apple for data security was “FileVault”. Starting in OSX 10.3 Panther, users could “encrypt” their home directories. Home directory encryption is [...]

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It’s surprising and comforting this emotional reaction I am having to the news about Steve Jobs. The creations of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak inspired me when I was very young, the Apple ][ and the first Macintosh. These amazing machines gave me my love of the possibilities of Computer and Technology that pushed me [...]

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I decided to write up a comparison between these two devices as a way of coming to terms with my own indecision. When comparing the two units, I have taken time to understand that some of the strengths and weakness of each are based on things that neither Apple nor Google can control, such as [...]

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Kristen and I made a midnight run to Cookeville for the express purpose of doing some 3G mapping. Our Time was limited so we decided to map north of the Interstate. We did indeed get 3G single in Baxter and along 70N from Baxter east to Cookeville. Inside of Cookeville we received strong stigmal all [...]

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Last week, without fan-fare, AT&T turned on 3G coverage in the City and surrounding areas of Cookeville, TN. I can confirm that the coverage along i40 stretched between mile marker 277 west of the city to 290 east of the city. There is also coverage in Downtown Cookeville, the Tennessee Tech Campus, and the business [...]

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It’s amazing how much I learned from the experiences that start out like: “So I bought my wife a……” In this case the “….” is an Amazon Kindle. My wife is quite the Bibliophile. She not only works in a Library, she also binds books as a hobby, and in currently continuing her education for a masters [...]

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