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Lately I had bought several el-cheapo USB-ethernet modules for work. I needed cheap ones just to run a tftp server on an aging P4 machine running on Fedora 12.I got this off dealextreme.com for less than $5. I’ve read the reviews and it seems to work pretty well on Windows. It’s severely cheap looking and ...
We brought you a first look into Singapore’s Next Generation Broad-band Network (NGNBN) a few years back, slated for 2015 as the official completion date. At this point in time, a substant …
Many of us who have tried Fedora 13 are facing the issue of not having unrar (a basic program to untar your .tar file) because of the “free software” issue of Fedora’s re …
After the recent spade of bad publicity by Apple - specifically, the pointing of fingers to iPhone’s competitors to defend itself from an engineering fault - many of these companies that were brought into the circle of shame retaliated. And between all of these ‘come backs’, Motorolla has the best of em all.As of July ...
If you’re a veteran system administrator, you might remember an era of extremely expensive hard disk storage, when any serious network would have a beefy central file server (probably acce …
Spec offers up to 7Gbps of wireless bandwidthWireless networking has changed the way we are able to access data in our homes and offices. Today we can move around the home while downloading documents and file without interrupting access to the internet. In the past, an internet connection meant using wires.Like most things in the ...
I’ve got an e-mail lately from a reader which reads,“Hey dude, I’ve been looking for a solution to copy files from a remote Windows PC to a Linux PC without installing any free programs. My company only has PuTTY on Windows XP and I can’t seem to use scp like how we usually use it ...
Windows 7 comes with an option that allows an Administrator to easily allow/prevent other users (with no admin rights) to run executable programs. This works well especially if you share your PC with guests and you would not want them to run unnecessary programs. Or it could be just to prevent your less tech-savvy Dad ...
With the recent release of Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala, there have been posts on problems getting the Huawei USB dongles to work. After doing a simple search, it seems that this problem lies with a bug in the kernel and bug fixes are on the way. For the meantime, here are two ways to ...
I noticed something fishy on Facebook a couple minutes ago. A few of my friends posted this message on their profile update on Facebook, via their mobile phone.I’m 8 1/2 pounds lighter thanks to the FREE trial pack of this new colon cleanser that I got! visit ExpressColon.net to get yours! efOThere are ...
Looking through the list, some of these gadgets brought back bitter-sweet memories. Remember those days when it was unbearably funny to see your friends talking on their cool “N-Gage”? No doubt the concept of a portable gaming mobile phone was plausabile but what’s with placing the phone microphone at the side of the device? What ...
The race to fast boot times is on, with MontaVista making the latest headlines. The embedded Linux vendor announced in the United States Tuesday its latest system is able to boot in one second, and released a video demonstrating a vehicle dashboard system going from cold boot into a “fully operational” state in that time.The ...
The rumors may be getting closer to the truth, or vice versa, as a report surfaced from Taiwan today that Apple plans to releases its much discussed tablet computer this October. Guesstim …
Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition and Athlon II X2 250 target the mainstreamAMD’s Athlon II CPU dieIntel and AMD have both been touting their capabilities in the multi-core race. Each s …
AMD beat its time to market estimates for “Istanbul”The sluggish global economy has meant that not only were consumer computer sales down, but sales in the enterprise computing space for servers and data center computers were down significantly as well. The only thing for chipmakers like AMD and Intel to move ahead with new processors ...
Intel has released some details of the next-generation Atom platform, code-named Pine Trail. One of the most interesting revelation (apart from the late 2009 launch date) is that Intel is …
Smaller transistors mean lower prices are comingSamsung Electronics has announced that it is shipping its 32GB moviNAND embedded memory card, built using a 30nm-class NAND manufacturing pr …
Prior to this application, there were several attempts at making WM 6.1 to work with Facebook. Sadly, most applications break and were highly unstable causing lots of frustrations. Therefore, users had to rely on opera to access mobile Facebook webpages which have very limited functionality.Just recently, Microsoft released a Facebook application which is available in ...
If you happen to have a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, you would have realized how bad the memory leakage problem is. Prior to this application (which I will introduce in a while), one will either have to soft-reset their WM phone every few/several days or to use a less-superior memory release program. The former is ...
While there’s no doubt that Intel’s Core i7 CPUs lead the field when it comes to performance, that power comes at a price. Performance enthusiasts on a budget have been patiently waiting f …
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