Information technology, computing and related
Netgear DG834N faults Once more to the breach, dear friends… I was just going to toss the old Netgear DG834N in the shed but it was more or less working so I have patched it up and tried that. There is only so much you can do when one connection is corroded and the shoddy,
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Netgear WNDR3300 issues I wouldn’t touch Netgear’s WNDR3300 wireless router with a bargepole. First off, unlike the DG834N Rangemax, this one has no modem – you have to connect it to an existing ADSL/cable modem. Secondly, it’s not ‘dual band’ it’s ‘one band – or another’ Thirdly, while it promises: “more wireless channels, less interference
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Coolermaster Cosmos with Enermax PSU I’ve had my previous case for over a decade and felt is was time to change. The old chassis is a massive, solidly built 1mm steel Supermicro SC750 server case that’s still good enough to hold its own, though it’s been through a few fans and power supply in that
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Netgear DG834N issues I tried a lot of faffing about I finally detected the culprit – and it wasn’t the WN311b adapter which has given me more than few problems in the past… J’accuse VOUS Netgear! The problem was a fault with the DG834N – several faults actually. Despite being only 18 months old –
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Netgear DG834N issues My thoughts on this hardware combination: (Insert strings of your worst expletives) Yep, that about sums it up. Darned thing has been flaky from the first day I got it, lately though it’s really starting to hack me off. The router itself is great. The problem is the wn311b – and it’s
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Keeping your mailbox clean 1) Always have an up-to-date anti-virus package and ideally use at least one spam filter. 2) Don’t accept mail with attachments even from relatives if you can help it (unless you are specifically expecting something) – and not ever from strangers! 3) Use different emails as appropriate: One for family and
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These a cursory reviews of several books I was reading at the time, as I did a module on Visual Basic during a HNC in Computing and Software Engineering Visual Basic Controls in a Nutshell By Evan S Dictor ©1999 O’Reilly & Associates: ISBN 1-56592-294-8 In a nutshell, it’s an excellent resource. That’s a posh
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Windows 2000 Server for Dummies by Ed Tittel with Mary T. Madden, James Michael Stewart ©1999 [ www.idgbooks.com ] IDG Books ~Dummies Press ISBN 0-7645-0341-3 Actually I’m quite a fan of the Dummies range which can be quite enlightening at times. The sometimes irreverent cartoons are always good too. One thing that intrigued me though
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