Netgear’s open source router
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
Netgear has gone open source with one of it’s new routers. The Netgear WGR614L does not come with any first-party firmware at all. It allows users to choose from a few different “distros” of open firmware, such as DD-WRT and Tomato. Who knows maybe we will see even distros of Linux for it. This is a huge steep in the right direction for Netgear. I am happy to see companies supporting open source, maybe other router manufactures can take a hint from Netgear.
Product page: here
Tags: Netgear, Open source
So long XP…
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Microsoft News, Windows
Microsoft has said they will not extend the cut-off deadline for it’s OEM distribution of XP, witch is set for June 30, 2008. After that date you will no longer be able to buy a new computer with XP pre-installed. They did say however they will extend support for it (updates and such) until 2014.
Tags: Microsoft, Windows XP
Firefox 3 out today!
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Technology News
What are you waiting for? Go download it…
Track the downloads so far here.
Microsoft says Vista UAC needs work.
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Windows
M$ admitted that UAC prompts needs work, the fact that most of these prompts are confusing to users and downright annoying. I remember back in beta 1 when I first noticed the UAC prompts I quickly found out how to disable this “feature” as I myself was quite annoyed by them.
“Clearly there is work that has to be done around the UAC prompts — in part because of user feedback that they get the prompts at times they don’t necessarily expect them and it is not intuitive.
“If you give people too many prompts in too many situations, they view it as an impediment to getting their work done and they just start clicking ok on everything,” said Charney. He said that the language used in prompts is also confusing.
“We give them dialogues and prompts that don’t help them make the right decision as often as we would like. You can be surfing the Web and get a warning that this site is out of another site’s control, or you may be passing data to another site. What is a user supposed to do with that information?
Quoted from MSFN
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Tags: Disable UAC, Microsoft, Vista, Windows
Comcast’s evil plot…
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Comcast, Technology News
After Comcast figured they could not out wit, or out smart, or even get by the FCC it has seamed as thought that overnight they have become “friendly” with some key P2P organizations who happen to develop technologies for pear to pear services. It just seams to me like Comcast is trying to get on the good side of such organizations to be able to reverse engineer their technologies to be able to control the traffic on their (Comcast’s) networks. What happens when Comcast gets their greedy little hands on Bittorrent’s method of connection encryption? IMO I think they will take that technology and use it to make a filtering system that detects such traffic regardless of encryption type or port number and possibly inject their own packets into the stream. Comcast has already proved they have the power detect the use of BT and also spoof packets.
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Tags: Comcast, internet, open internet, P2P
Is Comcast done with screwing around with bittorrent?
Posted by trm96 | Filed under Comcast, Technology News
I think not… A new study shows that Comcast as well as Cox are still delaying or even blocking bittorrent connections. Right now if you use encryption (and use a non standard port number [I use 2460]) for your bittorrent connections you should be still be safe from their screwing around with your connection. Please support both Net Neutrality as well as Open Internet by contributing to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Tags: Bittorrent, Comcast, encryption, Net Neutrality, open internet
