Don’t get your hopes up, I’m not taking sides here. I just wanted to show how the companies differ in basic switch configuration. Now for you who don’t know who Extreme is, they are the purple ones, better known as Extreme Networks. They offer some pretty nice products that compete very well with the likes [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Better DNS Service
Today I would like to take a moment and tell you about a FREE service that does more than just DNS for you. This service can be utilized by a single user or an entire data center. OpenDNS.com is a website that allows you to utilize it’s services by adding them as your primary/secondary DNS [...]
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Free International Calling
I found this on the blog Daily Cup of Tech (link on right) and thought it was pretty interesting. The website freely allows you to connect to international land lines for free. I tested it from my cell to my wife’s cell and it worked just fine. Pretty neat.
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Broadcom BCM4306 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
In my last post I mentioned that I needed to install a non standard package to get my laptop wireless device working. Well, I decided that because it took me about 20-25 minutes to find the fix for this I would post it so I can save someone some unneeded grief. To get the wireless [...]
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And then there was Ubuntu…
Quite recently my eyes were opened to a Linux distribution called Ubuntu. The latest release from the open source company Canonical is called Feisty Fawn. How can you deny or refuse a name like that. Well, I figured I would dedicate a post to how much I truely enjoy the OS vs it’s or Linux [...]
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