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It costs a bit more, but the Linksys WRT54GL is the way to go for a reliable router, especially after you flash it with DD-WRT. This firmware provides the power of much more costly routers at a reasonable price. Port triggering, site blocking, advanced wireless capabilities and more. More reliable than the [...]

I finally found drivers for my personal UT-41 USB GPS device. It seems that it usesa Prolific PL-2303 USB-Serial conversion driver. Click here to go to the download page for Windows, Mac, and Linux. No Vista drivers yet (but why would you want those, anyway?).

If you have an Dell Inspiron 640m or e1405, and the screen flickers off and on when you disconnect it from the AC power and it is running on battery, it seems that downloading an older Intel graphics driver, rather than the latest one from the Dell web site might fix the problem. Here [...]

Here is a good article explaining dufferences in the types of flash drives.

You know how when you start typing in the “to” field and Outlook suggests email addresses that you have used previously? That is called Outlook MRU (Most Recently Used), and it is stored in an .NK2 file on your PC in the \Documents and Settings\[Profile]Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook director. Next, have you even needed to [...]

Well, it figures. Just as soon as I praise Meraki, they go and change the game. No more $50 routers apparently. I am still trying to figure it out. Do I need the $150 version so I dont get ads? Or will the $50 still work with no ads? [...]

I just finished setting up a test mesh network using 2 Meraki Minis. What an easy setup. They are really and truly plug and play, the web interface is flexible, and the devices themselves just adapt to their environment.
I initially connected one directly to a LAN port on my Linksys/dd-wrt router, connected everything [...]