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Apple Airport Extreme
$179, Apple. Features USB port to plug a printer into, lets the Airport become a wireless print server WPA/WPA2 Security with 128-bit WEP Guest Networking – you can create a secondary wireless network (‘John’s Guest Network’) with a different password … Continue reading
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Tagged 802.11N, apple airport, dual band, networking, wireless print server, wpa wpa2
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No more mouse hot swap in Windows 7?
This isn’t headline news or anything, but it sure is annoying when OS features that have worked fine for years suddenly stop working. Case in point, I purchased a new Kensington Orbit trackball yesterday and figured I could just unplug my old microsoft … Continue reading
Nice deal on the Tyan 4985 Quad 1207 motherboard
The bad news is newegg stopped selling the Tyan 4980 Motherboard I featured in my 16-core workstation build last year. Fortunately, they are selling a better one now. The TYAN S4985G3NR Thunder has FOUR expansion slots to the 4980′s one. This means you … Continue reading
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DIY 16 core workstation part 4: Case & Power Supply
One very important detail on this build is the case. Building a system with a server motherboard requires an EATX case (Extended ATX). EATX cases are the only things large enough to hold the Tyan S4980 motherboards. So which one … Continue reading
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Affordable inkjet printing
You realize how expensive printing is when you have to buy new ink. So I decided to figure out what it costs per page to print in color and black and white. I assumed that laser printing would be the most … Continue reading
Western Digital MyBook World Edition II 2TB Ethernet External Hard Drive
This is a great looking product, extremely easy to use, holds a massive amount of files, and its one of the cheapest Network Attached Storage (NAS) products you can buy. Unfortunately, its performance is TERRIBLE. The average new SATA hard drive in your desktop … Continue reading
AT&T did not deliver
4 weeks ago, I orderd AT&T DSL after I received a flyer promising a $200 gift card, A free 2-wire wireless home gateway, and guaranteed $35 a month fee for 2 years for the “Elite” service. A few days later I got a message saying … Continue reading
Comcast Cable Vs AT&T DSL
Pretty interesting. the AT&T DSL Elite service which is $35 a month boasts 6 Mbps Download and 768 Kbps Upload. Comcast cable charges $49 a month for this service. This is how fast my Comcast measured at 9:30 AM on … Continue reading
Buying a Socket 771 Quad-Core Xeon CPU
I’ve recently spent time researching Socket 771 Xeon CPUs, to figure out options when upgrading or building from scratch, finally I’ve been able to connect some dots. There are two series of Quad-Core socket 771 Xeon available: The Clovertown 53XX and the Harpertown 54XX. The Harpertown … Continue reading
Dual Quad-Core workstation on a budget – part 2
In my last post I wrote about trying to obtain a dual quad-core workstation on the cheap, I wrote that buying a new bare-bones dual Xeon setup (case, power supply and empty motherboard) would run $500-$700. Well the reason I started this article is … Continue reading
