tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21714805789186087092011-11-27T18:26:46.104-05:00Carson Ball's blog of tech news, hardware, software, and news feeds.carsonbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12066572019824239896noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171480578918608709.post-16435834457732006532008-09-06T12:11:00.003-04:002008-09-06T12:42:33.626-04:00

My firewall / router recently started having hardware issues causing it to lock up about every day or two and would take around 30 or 45 minutes to get it to boot properly; because of this, I decided it was finally time to replace it. I didn't want to spend a lot of money, and wanted something faster than my current firewall - this wasn't hard to achieve since at 800 MHz, even the cheapest

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On my music discussion blog, I mention the problems of Comcast's new policy for music lovers; here I want to present a more general discussion of the issue. If you unfamiliar with this malfeasance, read Kim Peterson's article on MSN's moneyblog.I knew that this policy was being discussed for the last couple of months, but apparently Comcast has, in fact, decided to move forward with it. First

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My newest blog, which is a discussion of music related topics to accompany my album review site is run on WordPress's blogging software. All of my other blogs are hosted by Blogger, so this is a change for me. The biggest pitfall that I have encountered was with submitting my RSS feeds to Google's Webmaster tools in order to ensure that my new posts are added to their database in a timely

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I am running several blogs besides this one and have decided early on to advertise on them. The earliest blog that I worked on that is still extant, Mindless Ramblings, is exactly what the name says. The blog that you are reading now is my third blog. Recently, I have created a music discussion blog to accompany my music review site. My very first blog is no longer in existence, and analyzed

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Last week I purchased the KB-2200 Multimedia Scroll keyboard by Trust and have been impressed with it.First off, all of the multi-media keys seemed to work "out of the box" for me with Ubuntu linux 8.04. On several other keyboards that I have used, I had to spend 1/2 hour remapping the volume knob so this impressed me right off the bat. Speaking of the volume dial, it is large enough that it is

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Privacy Policy Information is never sold (or given) to third parties. What is collected Standard logging information collected by all web servers. Such information includes your ip address, what page you visited, what time you visited the page, and what browser and operating system you used. This information is used for statistical analysis (i.e. what parts of the site

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Recently I received a pair of SPK-VELO-001 wireless speakers by Cables Unlimited SPK-VELO-001 for my birthday.The sound quality is excellent for the price range, and the volume goes higher than I would ever care to listen to. Mounting them on a wall is simple, and I have found that a picture hanger per speaker is strong enough to hold them up, assuming that your walls are sturdy - even through

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As promised, I am reviewing the WindTunnel case by Xclio. I am really amazed by this case, and it is a much better design that I had hoped for.For starters, the only thing that screws appear to be necessary for are mounting the motherboard and power supply. The case has tool-less "thumb screws" for easy access. The drives slide in on rails - which, from my experience normally require screws -

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I am building a matched pair of new computers for my wife and I and will review them when they are finished. Normally we stagger building our computers (replacing the older of the two each time). This works well for keeping them up-to-date, but not so well for gaming. One of us always is running slower than the other, or envious of the level of graphics detail on the other computer. This

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So, I am in the process of building a new Windows box as my current one is about dead (fortunately, my Linux box still functions well) and am planning on installing Vista so that I do not have to worry about not being able to run new software in a year or two. However, I have noticed that the HCL (Hardware Compatibilty List) that I found seems to be rather sparse.This seems odd to me, why would

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Be sure to check out my technology related tutorials on my website. Also, you can subscribe to the rss feed at http://carson.ballweb.org/tutorials.xml.

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Over the weekend I received a ViewSonic VG2230wm 22" widescreen LCD monitor for my birthday. So far, I am very impressed with it.Fedora Core 6 detected the monitor upon start up and instantly configured it to the manufacturer's recommended resolution of 1680x1050x32.I had more difficulty setting it up in Windows XP though. It does not like to play nice with the NVidia FX 5200 (yes, I know, this

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I decided that I missed the technology blog that I used to have, so I decided to create a new one.If you have a tech topic that you would like me to weigh in on, let me know. I plan on discussing hardware, software, technology news, and trends so anything is fair game.

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