The Alaska Intermittent Tribune

Many have been debating the “format war” between HD-DVD and Sony’s Blu-ray about who will become the (HD) high definition DVD standard, but the real HD war is just beginning. I believe the real battle begins with the term “HD” and ends with how you will be getting your content in the next few years. (more…)

This just in. A friend who is currently a GCI Internet subservient subscriber forwarded an email they received from GCI regarding a complimentary, gratuitous or “just because they felt like it” speed increase. Hooray! (more…)

Apparently the fine folks at GCI aren’t making enough off their customers by selling bundled packages and burying the best Internet options deep inside the most expensive plans. They’ve gone and fiddled with the default DHCP/DNS settings that causes redirects to their branded Yahoo! search page when a user enters words in the URL path of their browser. Can they really be that desperate for a few click-through dollars? Did anyone really ask for this “feature”?

Gee thanks, I guess.

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