Which Cat To Use?
Recently, as part of my never ending effort to keep from falling behind on things technical, I find that the Cat5e cables that I’ve been using for so long are no longer the standard and haven’t been for quite a while now.
Archive for the 'Hardware' Category
Chrysler Offering Wireless Internet In 2009 Model Cars
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I just ran across something in the LA Times that I can’t help find a bit disturbing. It seems that some bright young genius has decided Chrysler should offer wireless Internet services … IN 2009 [...]
Flashback
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Troubleshooting the monitor problems I had today got me into a kind of “digital nostalgia” frame of mind. Specifically I’m thinking about the differences between today’s computers and the machine’s I started out on.
Just touching on one aspect there is still a massive difference. Take memory as an example. [...]
Disaster! Monitor Needs Replacement
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I had a disaster today. I was minding my own business getting organized for some things I was planning to write when all of a sudden with no warning at all my monitor went dark. The hard drive light kept blinking occasionally like it always does and the lights [...]
Freeware App: FileZilla Portable
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I recently wrote about the FileZilla FTP Server and Client programs but there was a version of it that I hadn’t mentioned. The FileZilla Client program, which is the version that most people will need, is also available in a portable apps version.
Even though I’d spent time browsing the programs [...]
Toshiba’s new High Def Disc Format Going After Blu-ray
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Ever since the “format wars” between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray ended a while back with Blu-Ray coming out on top, lots of people have been pretty much assuming that it’s now safe to go ahead and start buying Blu-Ray equipment and titles without having to worry about some other format coming along [...]
Rented Routers
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I don’t know why this hasn’t occurred to me until now but because of the way our DSL service is arranged, we’re using a wireless router that’s supplied by the ISP for so much a month. It’s not a lot but it IS rented and if there ever comes a [...]
New EU Plane Fitted With Spycams To Detect Facecrime
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When I first read this story I thought it just HAD to be a joke or something but it’s actually real. The EU is testing a new prototype system of cameras mounted in strategic places planes to monitor the facial expressions of passengers in order to detect terrorism and “air [...]
SoCal Selene Group Dropping Out Of Google Lunar X Prize Competition
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For those who haven’t heard of it, here’s a ‘nutshell’ description of what it is from the Google Lunar X Prize website:
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images [...]
News Flash, Calculators Aren’t Dead Yet
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It’s amazing sometimes how far things have come in technology. I remember a time back in the early 1970’s when the first digital calculators came out. Texas Instruments built most of them, HP followed soon after and then there were more. Progress was slow at first, a simple [...]
