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The PNY Quadro 4 900XGL Professional MCAD Testing Of Nvidia's Flagship Workstation Card By -John Fiegener September 16, 2002 Its been a while since we have gotten our hands on a new Nvidia professional level video card. Last time we here at (tool.) tested the Elsa Gloria II "Quadro", we were quit impressed with the performance of that entry into the professional MCAD graphics card arena. Elsa had always been a producer of high quality gaming cards in the day. It's too bad they left that market space. Let me first give you a quick introduction to who we are here at (tool.). tool. is a Product Design and Development consultancy. We ideate, design and engineer...
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The Actiontec Wireless Ready Home Gateway SOHO Connectivity - Copper Need Not Apply By, Dave Altavilla November 5, 2001 SOHO (Small Office Home Office) products have certainly gotten sexier with the advent of Broadband ISP services brought to the home and small businesses. No longer are we limited to the primitive functionality of a simple ethernet hub. Now we have technologies like Routers, Gateways and Access Points, which were historically thought of as higher end "enterprise" solutions, making their way to suburbia and the average home user or small office. This new area of opportunity for various OEMs, as we mentioned in our review of a similar...
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ATi's New "Catalyst" Software Package Improved Performance, Reliability & More! By, Jeff Bouton June 13, 2002 In a quest to maintain their position as a leader in the video card market, ATi is constantly looking to improve the end-user's overall experience. This applies to their latest hardware releases, as well as new and improved software developments. As we've recently seen, ATi has begun to seriously address some issues that have plagued them in the past. Lately, we've seen a marked increase in their efforts to improve driver performance and reliability. It seems like this year alone they have released updated drivers at an ever increasing pace,...
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The Compex DynaStack DSR2216 16-Port Switch It's Time for a "Switch" By Jeff Bouton 5/12/2002 In recent years, we've seen a major shift in the way companies are marketing their networking products. With the increased popularity of DSL and Broadband, the demand for more bandwidth has made technologies that were originally designed for the commercial market, available to the average single end user or small office. In years past, the only way the average user could network their computer was using a serial cable. Today, the enthusiast can put together their own 100Mb high-speed network for under $150, giving them the ability to transfer hundred of megabytes of data in...
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The Compex Parallel Broadband Internet Gateway Powerful, Flexible Connection Sharing Made Easy... By, Marco Chiappetta February 21, 2002 As Internet Service Providers (ISP) begin bringing broadband into the hands of more and more home and small business owners, the need to secure and share this bandwidth has become increasingly necessary. Up until recently, if you were "talking tech" at home, rarely would the words "router", "gateway" or "firewall" get mentioned. Times have changed though. Now users are blessed with high speed internet connections and hardware prices have dropped so low that many homes are now equipped with multiple PCs. ...
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The D-Link DFE-910 Network In A Box Award Winning Performance By Jeff Bouton 6/12/2001 In the past, networking home computers together required the installation of a few network cards and a simple hub. Usually, installing the cheapest 10Mbps network cards would be more than sufficient for file transfers and possibly sharing a modem with Internet Connection Sharing software. With the ever growing popularity of broadband internet services, multimedia demands, and online gaming, users required a more robust solution for their networking needs. First came the introduction of 100Mbps Ethernet to the commercial market. Once reserved for high end networking environments, Companies...
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D-Link DHN-920 - 10Mb Phone Line USB Network In A Box A Home Network For Dummies By Dave Altavilla - September 11, 2000 The proverbial "free lunch", this is what Home Networking really delivers to most people and what draws consumers down the isles of the retail store peering at boxes. Let think about this for a moment. Most households these days are quickly justifying the expense (if it can be afforded) of adding a second computer for the kids or possibly the spouse instead (in many cases ladies, I realize there may be a fine line between the two anyway). Now, each one of these machines needs access to the internet and printer service. The rest...
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The D-Link DWL-920 Wireless Network Nice and Easy... By, Jeff Bouton March 14, 2001 Tonight we?ll be taking a look at the latest home networking product from D-Link Systems, Inc. D-Link is one of the world's leading manufacturers of Networking, Connectivity, and Data Communications products. Although they are mainly known for their commercial products, D-Link has also made a name for themselves in the Digital Home Connectivity market. With a wide array of products available from standard Network Interface Cards to Switches and Hubs, D-Link has secured a solid share of the home networking market. D-Link has been successful competing with such...
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The Elsa Gloria II Quadro SDR Professional Graphic Solutions for High-End 3D Applications May 26, 2000 - By John "Tool" Fiegener Allow me to introduce myself. My name is John Fiegener. I am the Founder and Owner of tool. Inc. We are a Product Design Group specializing in mechanical design of products mainly in the consumer market. I do much of my work with the help of CAD applications and powerful workstations driving the software. An example of one of my more recognizable pieces, would be the lock I helped design for the Kryptonite Lock Company. You can thank me for keeping that snazzy new Mountain Bike you have, safe and sound. ;-)...
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The GeForce3 Ti 500 and nVidia's Fall Lineup...New Hardware & Software Enter the Detonator XPs and Titanium By - Marco Chiappetta Edited By: Dave Altavilla October 1, 2001 NVIDIA is at it again. Just when we were all getting used to the idea of a new chipset standard from the 3D graphics giant, we're thrown the proverbial curve ball. The timing couldn't be any better. ATi, NVIDIA's main competitor, is about to ship their next generation product and what better way to steal ATi's thunder, than to release a new product of their own? Better yet, how about a whole new line of products? Just about this time in 2000, NVIDIA not only unveiled the GeForce 2 Ultra...
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Home Grown Networking and Modems from ActionTec Electronics https://www.actiontec.com Not long ago, "Home Networking" was a segment of the PC and Peripheral Market that did not even exist. However along with the huge success of the Personal Computer and the Internet within the mainstream and "Family/SOHO" (Small Office/Home Office) space, came the Multi-PC Household. Soon, for today's average family, one PC was not enough. It was as if the "Great Telephone Line Battle" was raged again but this time on a different precious commodity, "Computer Time". Now instead of hogging the phone lines for voice calls, Teens are sucking up MHz. and bandwidth in the Chat Rooms and Web Pages of the Internet....
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