https://www.fplanque.com/categories/net-usage/ Recent content in Net-Usage on fplanque.com [EN] Hugo -- 0.134.3 en-us Sun, 12 Jun 2022 01:58:05 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/mobile-wireless/still-no-usable-wifi-hotspots/ Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:31:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/mobile-wireless/still-no-usable-wifi-hotspots/ I travelled from Paris to Amsterdam this week... (for a business conference). I took the Thalys speed train. They offer WiFi on board... supposedly via satellite with fallback to multilink 3G when necessary. The reality is it works only 50% of the time… https://www.fplanque.com/work/productivity/im-sucks-and-so-does-email/ Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:41:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/productivity/im-sucks-and-so-does-email/ Over the last 6 months I have refrained as much as possible from using Instant Messaging, if it was not for scheduled conversations. I mean, IM is cool in a "netmeeting" kind of way. But having an IRC/MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/Whatever Messenger open all day,… https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/video-conferencing-future-is-now/ Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:28:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/video-conferencing-future-is-now/ Okay now, sometimes I really feel stuck in south of France when I need to be working with people in Paris! Phone + email was cool until my phone bills rocketed in the past few months... :-/ Recently, I decided, with a couple of business partners, to… https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/urgent-business-proposal-blah-blah-blah/ Mon, 03 Nov 2003 01:51:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/urgent-business-proposal-blah-blah-blah/ Ever wondered how it comes you now receive at least five of these urgent requests for assistance a day? Check it all out at this pretty complete site: http://www.scamorama.com/ Make sure you read at least one of those hilarious stories where the… https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/unsubscribring-from-spam-still-not/ Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:55:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/unsubscribring-from-spam-still-not/ Following up on wether or not to unsubscribe from spam, Cédric [site gone] adds some clarifications: I am talking about the particular case of a spam email that defeated my filters and ended up in my Inbox. This is the one I want to get rid of. I don't… https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/unsubscribring-from-spam-not/ Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:42:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/net-usage/unsubscribring-from-spam-not/ Cédric posted some interesting thoughts about whether or not to unsubscribe from spam. Cédric advocates that unsubscribing has become less a trap than it used to be, basically because spammers are better off collecting new masses of addresses than… https://www.fplanque.com/work/blog-media/google-blognoise-blogger-responsibility/ Sat, 17 May 2003 20:59:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/blog-media/google-blognoise-blogger-responsibility/ We have talked about the annoying BlogNoise problem before. And most bloggers have agreed that Google would probably be smart enough to fix the problem shortly in order to provide a better service to their users. A great part of the BlogNoise is… https://www.fplanque.com/work/mobile-wireless/trendspotting-mobile-spam/ Mon, 12 May 2003 18:02:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/mobile-wireless/trendspotting-mobile-spam/ It's already making me sick... and it's only the beginning :( Mobile SPAM is coming in all flavours! First there is SMS spam. Your phone beeps in the middle of a meeting as if you just received an alert, you check what's going wrong... but no, it's just… https://www.fplanque.com/work/blog-media/google-blognoise-a-semantic-approach/ Fri, 09 May 2003 11:20:00 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/work/blog-media/google-blognoise-a-semantic-approach/ As Russel points out (original article gone), the quality of searches is dwindling at Google as the result of BlogNoise. It seems to me that Google could easily cut out a lot of blogcrap of their search results if they performed their searches on a post… https://www.fplanque.com/tech/syndication/syndirella-0-9a-rocks/ Sat, 18 Jan 2003 00:39:36 +0000 https://www.fplanque.com/tech/syndication/syndirella-0-9a-rocks/ Two days ago Dmitry Jemerov aka yole released Syndirella a pretty cool GNU GPL news agregator with a lot of interesting features like being able to agregate blogs which don't provide any RSS feed! Looked like FeedReader had just gotten better!!…