Thankfully, in the opinion of yours truly, it appears that new Juniper Networks Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer - Lauren Flaherty has given the boot to Juniper's humorous but creepy ad cartoons. The ads ran for an unusually long time, for the past five years. Although I personal...

Is it possible to pair two ports of my 4-port USB hub, to form a USB female-female gender changer? Can I then connect typeA male end of USB cable modem to this and put a USB-LAN adapter to the other end of this pair, effectively getting a male USB modem to female LAN converter? This through a LAN ca...

Earlier this week, yours truly enjoyed a free online Hulu.com movie titled: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project . In the movie, even a one-legged dog missing an ear and going by the name of "Lucky" would be considered fair game for being the butt of a joke by famous insult comic - Don Rickles . That...

Last we heard, Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning had inked a deal with Hollywood to bring his vision, sci-fi actioner Citizen Seige, to life in a CG flick. What happened? Lanning tells Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield: "We’ve got the Citizen Siege film in development. And we now have an even better idea...

I saw a BigFoot KillerNic (killernic.com) in the Microcenter the other day, and wondered how good it really was, so I bought it figuring if it sucked I could return it.  It did, and I did. I put the KillerNic up against the real world experiences I could simulate in my humble home, and compared...

Ä°lan verdiÄŸime piÅŸman deÄŸilim Osman YaÄŸmurdereli ile akıllara “Gizli aÅŸk mı yaÅŸadılar?” sorusunu getiren Betül Åžahin, her ÅŸeyin yanlış anlaşıldığını ileri sürdü. Osman YaÄŸmurdereli’nin ölümünün ardından gazeteye verdiÄŸi ilan nedeniyle akıllara “Gizli aÅ...

If you’re a Quake nerd, then there’s a good chance you’re smacking your lips in anticipation of August—the month when QuakeCon is held. For the uninitiated, QuakeCon is a bring-your-own-computer LAN party held in Dallas, Texas. It’s named after id Software’s Quake FPS. So what’s going ...

Filed under: Gaming There's nerd and then there's Commodore 64 nerd. Bring them together in a Commodore 64 LAN party and you've got a nerdstorm of mythical proportions. The world's first Commordore 64 LAN party was held in nerdistan Cincinnati last weekend. It consisted of eight C64s with Ethernet c...

A Border Gateway Protocol ( BGP ) Autonomous System ( AS ) is identified by a number in the range 1 to 65535. AS numbers in the range 1 to 64511 are assigned by InterNIC . These are reserved and globally unique AS numbers. AS numbers in the range 64512 to 65535 are known as private AS numbers , and ...

Ottawa-based company Wi-LAN just opened up a can of legal whoop-ass, dishing out healthy servings to not only RIM but Motorola and UTStarcom. Wi-LAN has patents relating to both CDMA and Wi-Fi, and the ones they’re claiming infringement on are “MultiCode Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum&#...