This is the week I said we'd roll our own DSL. On the surface it looks like a daunting task, but it is actually not that hard at all — if you can get past the many regulatory loopholes. But why would you even want to do such a thing? Well maybe DSL isn't available in your area. Maybe you want a significantly cheaper alternative to a T-1 line. Or just maybe you and the kid down the block want to play networked games at warp speed. Well here is how to do it.

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Ready for round 2? :)

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] Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday said it agreed to sell its grocery
] distribution unit to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Buffett must have got hungry when he was out shopping.

Wal-Mart Sells Grocery Unit to Berkshire

Apple Computer could become the first Silicon Valley technology company to treat employee stock options as an expense, with shareholders approving the accounting change today over the objections of the company's board of directors.

The Apple board recommended against the proposal from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, saying it would hinder the company's ability to attract and retain key employees and would produce less accurate financial statements because there is no standard way to calculate the cost.

Apple shareholders approve treating options as an expense

] On June 25, 2001, our former subsidiary, BlueStar
] Communications Group, Inc. made
] an irrevocable assignment for the benefit of its
] creditors of all its assets to an
] independent trustee in the
] state of Tennessee. Immediately thereafter, the Assignee
] began an orderly liquidation of BlueStar that was
] initially expected to be completed in the fourth quarter
] of 2002. However, the Assignee has informed us that it is
] still in the process of resolving some matters among
] BlueStar%u2019s creditors and that the process may extend
] into the second half of 2003.
]
] An ABC under Tennessee law
] is a non-judicial alternative to a plan of liquidation
] under Chapter 7 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. As
] a result of the ABC, BlueStars former assets are no
] longer controlled by us or BlueStar and cannot be used by
] either BlueStars or our board of directors to
] satisfy the liabilities of BlueStar. Consequently, the
] liquidation of BlueStar%u2019s assets and the discharging
] of its liabilities are currently under the sole control
] of the Assignee. Therefore, due to this loss of control,
] we deconsolidated BlueStar effective June 25, 2001, which
] resulted in the recognition of a deferred gain in the
] amount of approximately $55,200 in our consolidated
] balance sheet as of December 31, 2001. Such deferred gain
] represented%2

BlueStar in the news

] Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced a definitive
] agreement to acquire the business of privately held The
] Linksys Group, Inc. of Irvine, Calif. Linksys is the
] leading provider of home networking products with a broad
] line of wired and wireless products for consumers and
] SOHO (small office/home office) users. This acquisition
] represents Cisco's entry into the high-growth
] consumer/SOHO networking market, which is expected to
] grow from $3.7 billion in 2002 to $7.5 billion in 2006
] worldwide (sources: compiled from Dell'Oro Group,
] Synergy). Home networks allow consumers to share
] broadband Internet connections, files, printers, digital
] music, photos, and gaming, all over a wired or wireless
] LAN (local area network).

Very Cool!

Cisco Systems Announces Agreement to Acquire The Linksys Group, Inc.

In a statement, CEO Steve Jobs noted that Gore is an avid Mac user who edits his own videos using Final Cut Pro. However, Gore's support of the Mac has not been unwavering, with the politician having said three years ago that he had switched from a Mac to a PC. Gore was chosen as a director at a meeting of Apple's board earlier Wednesday.

"Al brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having helped run the largest organization in the world--the United States government," Jobs said. "Al is going to be a terrific director, and we're excited and honored that he has chosen Apple as his first private sector board to serve on."

Internet Inventor joins Apple Board of Directors

Online auctioneer eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - news) plans to close its Half.com Web site at the end of 2004, by which time it will have merged all the items for sale on that site into the appropriate categories on the eBay site, a spokesman said on Thursday.

EBay Will Close Half.com Site by End of 2004

] Even the humble Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett, who holds
] only a 21.4 handicap, rewards his CEOs, maintaining
] loyalty with games for Jack Welch in Nantucket or Bill
] Gates in Pebble Beach. The saying, If you really
] want to know a man, play a round of golf with him,
] has apparently been taken to heart by executives such as
] Sun Microsystems - CEO Scott McNealy, who reportedly
] plays 300 rounds a year.

Why a bad golfer makes a better CEO

check it!

eBid.Nashville Govt. Auction Site

] The next round of globalization is sending upscale jobs
] offshore. They include basic research, chip design,
] engineering--even financial analysis. Can America lose
] these jobs and still prosper? Who wins? Who loses?

This seems so Office Space

The New Global Job Shift