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Like a repeated offender, Linksys is fast losing my confidence in their passion to develop decent products. Notice I did not use the word ''quality''. Just when we thought the NAS200 cannot get any worse, it one ups, or should I say one downs itself to a new low. The very reason why I bought this device over D-Link's offering: the additional two ...

Another age, another round of technological discoveries. In other words, adopting new types of hardware into my household. This time round, it is moving on to use Double-Layer DVDs to archive ever-increasing content sizes. More and more DVD ISO images are appearing all around with sizes exceeding 4.38GB (do not get deceived into thinking it ...

I thought it was that simple. I really did. It has been years now. I am just so used to maxing out my 100Mbps home network. Routine file transfers stream from computer to computer at takeoff speeds of 80-99.9Mbps. It would not be far off to guess that the numerous hard disks in my possession are reaching similar levels of capacity and ...

We consumers never learn this lesson well, no matter how many times we get bitten. Always read the fine print. I bought an additional pair of DDR-400 memory modules for an old gaming PC a couple of days back. It was not state of the art technology when I bought it in May 2006, but I did not need much to play World of Warcraft. By maxing it ...

Us software developers are in a perpetual dire state for more RAM. We can never get enough of it. As soon as we plug in new RAM module, the usual suspects - Visual Studio, SQL Server/Management Studio, ASP.NET runtime hosts, Outlook, Virtual Server/Virtual PC, browsers - swifty scoop up every new bead of rice available and say, ''thank ...