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Gallery: Installing draft-n WiFi in Psystar

Installing a D-Link DWA-556 802.11n WiFi card in a Psystar Open Computer and turning on Airport in the Leopard Network System Preference. by Jason O'Grady

Tags: Draft-N, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Home Networking, Wireless, Networking, Personal Technology, Jason O\'Grady, Psystar, Open, Computer, Clone, WiFi, D-Link, DWA-566, Install

Image galleries 2008-05-15

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Fastest-growing sites in US in August 2008

  Jul-08 Aug-08 % Change Rank by Unique Visitors Total Internet 189,134 188,937 0 N/A BEIJING2008.CN 459 5,832 1,171 193 Activision Blizzard 1,174 4,566 289 249 NFL Internet Group 7,482 13,902 86 69 HotChalk Network 3,622 6,239 72 176 ...

Tags: Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-09-30

The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC

The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PCWhy such an expensive processor?Surely you can cut a couple of hundred dollars off the price and not lose too much performance by getting a lower spec processor.That way you could keep both hard drives (great for keeping the data separate from the...

Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), video, PC, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app

Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...

Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Top Web companies in April 2008

Parent Audience, 000 Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) 1. Google 128,188 1:46:39 2. Microsoft 122,059 2:17:01 3. Yahoo! 117,065 3:08:40 4. Time Warner 105,566 3:40:04 5. News Corp. Online 76,453 1:49:21 6. eBay 67,047 1:52:41 ...

Tags: Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Gallery: Installing a WiFi draft-n card in the Psystar

As I've mentioned before, one of things that I should have ordered with my Psystar Open Computer was a WiFi card. For the low price of US$399 the Open Computer doesn't come with WiFi and my office is on the other side of the building from my cable modem –...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Card, Draft-N, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Psystar: Just how loud is it? (updated 2x)

Today was my second day with my spankin' new Psystar Open Computer. Following are some observations. I don't have a wireless card in it yet and my desk is too far away from my router to string an Ethernet cable, so I'm offline for the...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Database Administrator

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Gallery: Psystar unboxing, innards, maiden boot

I posted a gallery of 23 pictures of the Psystar Open Computer unboxing. Pictures include the shipping box, the innards and the maiden boot. Some notes: The fan is quiet. Much quieter than is heard initial video of the Psystar someone posted. I think...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Innards, Wireless LANs, Modems, Cable, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Components, Hardware, Personal Technology, Telecommunications

Blog posts 2008-05-06

32 mln insurance quotes were submitted online in 2007, 2 mln policies bought

US consumers submitted requests for 32 mln online quotes and purchased a record 2 mln policies online in 2007. The number of quotes requested online increased by 15%, and the number of auto insurance policies purchased online increased by 37% from 2006 to 2007. It’s clear that the Internet has...

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Top Web sites in France in January 2008

January 2008 Rank December 2007 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Internet 29,231 1 1 Google Sites 20,814 2 2 Microsoft Sites 19,072 3 3 Orange Sites 15,331 4 4 Iliad/Free.fr Sites 13,057 5...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Site, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-28

D-Link DGL-4500 GamerLounge Xtreme N Gaming Router

The D-Link DGL-4500 GamerLounge Xtreme N Gaming Router offers decent performance and a long list of features for home wireless networking and hardcore gamers. However, it lacks support for simultaneous 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands along with random resets during heavy loads. You may want to wait for a successor to...

Tags: Home networking, Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Games, d-link DGL-4500, router, D-Link Systems, network

Product reviews 2008-02-26

Top US advertisers in December 2007

Advertiser Spending Impressions, 000 1. NexTag $60,955,600 30,080,566 2. Countrywide $38,346,000 18,373,534 3. Sprint $37,340,500 5,467,605 4. AT&T $37,239,800 7,730,829 5. InterActiveCorp $32,841,100 8,864,357 6. Experian $29,245,800 11,472,443 7. Netflix $26,711,600 9,865,749 ...

Tags: Advertiser, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Top search engines in December 2007

Search engine Searches, mln. Share, % Total Internet 66,221 100.0 Google Sites 41,345 62.4 Yahoo! Sites 8,505 12.8 Baidu.com 3,428 5.2 Microsoft/MSN 1,940 2.9 NHN 1,572 2.4 eBay 1,428 2.2 Time Warner...

Tags: Search Engine, Search, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-25

Top-selling songs in the US in 2007

Crank That, Hey There Delilah and Big Girls Don’t Cry were the top-selling tracks in the US in 2007. Top-selling digital songs in 2007 Title/Artist Units Crank That/ Soulja Boy Tell'Em 2,909,000 Hey There Delilah/ Plain White T's...

Tags: Feat, AM

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Neat picture: Computer running in a fish tank

Yes, that's a real computer and a monitor submerged in a fish tank, with the power on. I found this while I was sorting through the leftover pictures I took from SC07. It has not been photoshopped. Here's a high res version if you'd like a...

Tags: Data Center, Computer, Data Centers, Storage, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-11-20

The iPhone and the British and German phone markets

Tomorrow sees the iPhone being unleashed on British and German markets four months after its US debut.  It'll be interesting to see how it's received. The German carrier is Deutsche Telekom, while in the UK the exclusive carrier is O2 and both networks have been busy promoting...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Europe, Carrier, 3G, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-08

Blu-ray vs HD-DVD: Bonus play!

A few months ago I predicted that it was game over for HD-DVD in the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD blood match, with Blu-ray the winner. Why? Because there are more Blu-ray players, Blu-ray disks outsells HD-DVD 2 to 1, more content is available on Blu-ray and Blockbuster, a major distributor of...

Tags: Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Benchmark Brief for Lotus Domino Web Access on HP ProLiant BL480c Server Blade With Lotus Domino 7.0.2

A workload designed to replicate a typical Domino Web Access user environment was tested against an HP ProLiant BL480c server blade with two Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5160 processors (3.00 GHz/1333 MHz FSB) to determine the maximum user load this server can support. The test was conducted against a Domino 7.0.2...

Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, Blade Servers, E-mail Servers, Utility Computing, Groupware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software

White papers 2007-01-01

Amazon to Google: Hands off our trade secrets

In "Google to Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon: Hand over confidential, competitive info,” I present Google’s underhanded, hypocritical move to snare direct competitors into revealing confidential, proprietary details of competitive operations to the “do no evil” Google: Google will apparently do anything to ensure its $122 billion market cap free-content by Google's...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-24

Wireless USB a step closer

Wireless USB devices are one step closer to being reality as Staccato Communications submits six potential products to the FCC for certification.Wireless USB will change how we connect digital cameras, MP3 players, printers and flash drive to our PCs The six Staccato devices are:SC3221R USB External Host Wire Adapter HWA...

Tags: wireless USB, USB

Blog posts 2006-09-28