How Many FLOPS Are In Game Consoles?
Published on May 26, 2008 to OpinionAnalyst Opinion - Floating Point Operations Per Second - FLOPS - one of the more obscure processor performance indicators, and one of the oldest ones. Read more
Comcast Gets 30 Days To Explain How It Administers Internet
Published on August 21, 2008 to Business & LawThe Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday gave Comcast Corp. Read more
How The RIAA Tracks File Sharing at Colleges
Published on May 14, 2008 to Business & LawAn anonymous RIAA representative has come out detailing the organization’s methods in seeking out file sharers on college campuses in the United States. In many ways the method is almost identical... Read more
Samsung Instinct: How Bad Marketing Could Cripple A Great Product
Published on May 29, 2008 to OpinionOpinion - Now that SonyEricsson's Xperia X1 has officially been postponed to Q4, we are certain that you soon will see predictions that Apple's 3G iPhone, if it really launches in June, could be... Read more
How The U.S. Olympic Swimming Relay Team Compares To Dell's MP3 Player
Published on August 13, 2008 to OpinionAnalyst Opinion - I was watching the Olympics over the weekend and couldn't help but cheer when the US swim team beat the French. Read more
How To: Diary of a New Home Network - Part 3
Published on February 16, 2006 to NetworkingIn this final installment, Tim Higgins makes a bonehead move during cable termination and shares lessons learned from the whole escapade. Read more
How To: Diary of a New Home Network- Part 2
Published on November 2, 2005 to NetworkingTim Higgins is back with Part 2 of his new home network adventures. This time it's all about the connections - wall plates and patch panels, that is. Read more
How To: Diary of a New Home Network- Part 1
Published on October 18, 2005 to NetworkingDesigning a system to distribute communications and electronic entertainment services around a new home can be a daunting task. But with the right approach, you don't have to be a master of the home networking universe to do it, and you might even have fun! Tim Higgins recently did just that. Read more
How To: Manually Setting Up the Linksys WRE54G Wireless-G Range Expander
Published on September 2, 2004 to NetworkingLinksys' WRE54G Wireless-G Range Expander [reviewed here] is a WDS-based 802.11b / g repeater that Linksys says works only with its WAP54G access point and WRT54G and WRT54GS wireless routers. But with a little effort, you can get it to function with any 802.11b or g product that supports WDS-based bridging and/or repeating. Read more
How To: Tips for Fixing XP File and Printer sharing
Published on January 6, 2004 to NetworkingUsers of WinXP and Win2000 frequently can connect to the Internet, but have problems getting File and Printer sharing to work properly. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, sometimes only some machines on a network can share, and sometimes machines can share, but only in one direction. Read more
How To: Sniffing the Air
Published on September 28, 2005 to NetworkingThe nice thing about wireless LANs is that you don't have to be physically connected to use them. But that strength also opens the door to security problems. Derek Boiko-Weyrauch shows you how a popular open source tool can be used to keep tabs on WLAN activity. Read more
How To:Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 3 - Adding an iTunes server
Published on August 24, 2004 to NetworkingOur third installment of Jim Buzbee's series walks you step-by-step through adding iTunes serving to the tricks that Linksys' little wonder can perform. Read more
How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 5- Moving to Unslung
Published on October 7, 2004 to NetworkingIn Part 5 of his Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 series, Jim Buzbee introduces us to the Unslung firmware that is the next step in the evolution of this little box into a general-purpose Open Source application platform. Read more
How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 2 - Adding NFS
Published on August 10, 2004 to NetworkingIn the second installment of Jim Buzbee's explorations of Linksys' little NAS-enabling marvel, he explains how to get set up to do your own hacking and walks us through adding NFS support. Read more
How To: One Internet connection - Two Private LANs
Published on November 12, 2003 to NetworkingThere are times when having two separate networks - both sharing the same Internet connection - can come in handy. For example, I recently helped a community center with its network setup. They needed to provide Internet connection to tenants who were renting space, in addition to their own shared Internet. They also shared a number of folders on the network, but weren't too careful about password protecting the shares. Read more
How To: Using m0n0wall to create a Wireless Captive Portal
Published on September 29, 2004 to NetworkingThe freedom of wireless networking is now a reality for everybody with a suitably equipped device. At one time too expensive for everything other than corporate use on a business network, Wi-Fi is now mainstream. In many respects, this is due to Intel's extensive marketing of its Centrino brand, launched in mid-March 2003. Read more
How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Part 1
Published on August 3, 2004 to NetworkingOnce in awhile a product comes along that you just know is going to spark the imagination - and hacking skills - of enthusiatic tweakers. Linksys seems to have done it again with its Linux-based NSLU2 Network Storage Link. Our correspondent Jim Buzbee has agreed to chronicle his adventures with this little wonder for TomsNetworking readers in a multi-part series. Part 1 describes how Jim managed to get a root login. Read more
How To: LAN access for Wireless Clients without an Access Point
Published on July 25, 2003 to NetworkingHere's the problem. You're cheap...uh, make that frugal... have one or two wireless laptops that you want to get connected to your LAN, and don't want to buy an access point or wireless router to do it. Can it be done? Read more
How To: Getting VPN to work through NAT firewalls
Published on May 20, 2003 to NetworkingWith the rising popularity of telecommuting and the increasing need to protect their electronic assets, companies large and small have been turning to Virtual Private Networking (VPN). The good news is that many savvy IT departments realize that many of their telecommuting employees share their broadband connections with consumer-grade routers. Those folks have made their lives easier by using "NAT friendly" VPN gateways and VPN clients that don't require any changes to home users' router settings in order to successfully set up a VPN tunnel. Read more
How To: Adding Internal Wireless LAN to a Notebook
Published on January 27, 2005 to NetworkingToday's notebooks all come with the ability to host an internal wireless LAN card. But cost-sensitive buyers may choose to forego that option and later regret it. But as long as you're willing to do some homework, our How To shows that it's not that hard to add a WLAN card yourself. Read more
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