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what’s a good router?

My 8 year old DLINK router is acting weird (i keep getting disconnected when I try to connect wirelessly)
what do you guys think about this router? (No more dlink.. they suck… LINKSYS is good right?)
(supports 802.11n)Looks good to me. But you know what they say about assholes and opinions.I had mucho problems with my [...]

Magento

Not feeling like doing anything custom, so I’m setting up Magento for my wife’s new web store. Its PHP, which pains me… but its also Zend. Which is why I picked it over Zen-Cart or X-Cart.
Am installing PHP5 and all the other pre-reqs now. Anyone used Magento?Wow. You have [...]

.pdf file … print option disabled

One of our co-workers recently had an article published in an online magazine and we got a copy of the article from the publisher in .pdf format. For whatever reason, the print option is disabled. I guess they don’t want us printing the article.
Anyone know how to "undo" this?They don’t want [...]

A couple of VPN questions.

1. Does anyone know, or know of a good explanation of, how to set up a L2TP VPN based on a Windows Server 2003 machine? I’m tired of dicking around with little metal boxes running proprietary OSes that are impossible to configure without a special training class offered by the manufacturer.
2. Why do IPSEC VPNs [...]

Recommend a new laptop for me. v. help

Got around $1500 to spend towards a new laptop. Can you all recommend something for me? I’m thinking about an xps What do you want to use it for? Desktop replacement/gaming, sager laptops from a vendor like pctorque will be your best bet.
I think the XPS line is overpriced for what you get. [...]

i NEED a raid card

for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?

i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]

Apple Student Developer connection

So I here about this developer connection through apple where a student pays $99.99 and he/she gets a hardware discount. I was going to purchase this happy shit if it were worth it…Does anyone know what the cost of a MacBook Pro would be?!?
You get a $100 discount just for being a student, and [...]

Does anyone actually LIKE Windows Vista?

I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]

Apple skewered over missing DNS patch

Apple has come under fire for failing to patch the critical Domain Name System (DNS) flaw which prompted a (rest of) industry wide response earlier this month.
For anyone just back from a trip up the Amazon, the discovery of a domain spoofing by security researcher Dan Kaminsky sparked a massive patching effort [...]

ID3 tags for itunes

For whatever reason my mac’s OS is really screwed up and programs close unexpectedly and it is annoying. I am going to have to reinstall OS X. But my main concern is itunes. I have a lot of songs on my external hard drive that I have on itunes. When I transferred them over some [...]