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12 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Wireless 802.11n Ratified

I waited years and years… then it all happened while I wasn’t paying attention. After 7 years of waiting, IEEE 802.11n Wireless LAN Specification was ratified on September 11, 2009 to provide significantly improved data throughput and range. Technically, the standard is called 802.11n-2009, an amendment to the 802.11-2007. Advantages: 802.11n – even in its [...]

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08 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A Fellow's View of the APAN Meeting

It’s already been two weeks. Sorry for the late post, but I think I owe it to this blog to post something about my trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There I attended the 28th Asia-Pacific Area Network (APAN) Meeting on July 19-24 as a Conference Fellow (i.e. free). APAN is a conference on Networking particularly [...]

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31 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Sysadmin Day

It’s System Administration Appreciation Day!  Happy Sysadmin Day everyone.

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18 July 2009 ~ 6 Comments

MBP: Distorted Video Problem

[18 July 2009] And so it happened to me… On a Saturday morning, I am the latest victim of the Macbook Pro Early 2008 bug. Apparently, according to Apple, it is a problem with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor. In my case, it is more than a distorted video. Upon bootup, it shows these [...]

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01 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Firefox 3.5 Released

Time to enjoy the new release of Firefox. Mozilla has released v3.5 a few hours ago. To update your browser, just click Help -> Check for Updates and go on from there.

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