I have been using Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop as my primary collaboration client for nearly four weeks now. During that period, I reported a number of bugs and voted for many other bugs and feature requests. Unfortunately, Zimbra Desktop is as yet unsuitable for productive use.
Zimbra Desktop itself is actually the Zimbra Web client, [...]
I recently picked up the CoolMax CN-350 NAS for only $20 after a $30 mail-in rebate and a $10 Google Checkout signup bonus. So far I have been pleased with the device. It comes with the following noteworthy features.
* Fast Ethernet (100Mbps)
* USB2
* CIFS/SMB or FTP access (network)
* Attached [...]
My father recently purchased a new eMachines T5082 without asking my opinion and as such I have been tasked with configuring it. The first question, of course, is why is Windows Vista so awful slow the system is unusable? Let us list the reasons.
First, the base of this model ships with only 512M [...]
I finally bought a Scythe Kama Bay. It’s a product of solid construction. The 12cm fan it ships with is reasonably quiet, for me, even at +12V. It won’t spin up at all at +5V, but probably will at some higher voltages. It has a dust filter in behind the swiss cheese metal mesh in [...]
My Biostar Socket 754 NForce3 mainboard arrived today. For $50 as of this writing it’s about the cheapest Socket 754 mainboard you can obtain. It doesn’t sport any bells or whistles, just the entry level functionality you’d expect from an inexpensive mainboard.
The retail kit includes a floppy cable, ATA cable, manual, and I/O [...]
My vanilla green PCB eVGA GeForce 6600GT AGP is a nice break from the previous two XFX 6600GT cards I had in my possession which both failed to function on numerous test systems. In stark contract to the XFX offering, the eVGA card worked immediately upon installation in my ECS K7S5A mainboard from several [...]
I have heard almost nothing but good things about Philips’ DVP642. I finally ordered one in July from Amazon as they had the cheapest price at the time. It was on backorder for a month, during which time the price rose around $10. Nevertheless, I still snagged the player at a good [...]
I was in the market for a portable MP3 player recently. The cheapest iPod or Rio Karma I could find was hundreds more than I wanted to spend, even refurbished. Fortunately, someone suggested I look at CD based portable players. It had not occurred to me, as I own no CDs of [...]
I recently picked up the DI-524 from Fry’s Outpost.com for about $40 after a $20 mail-in rebate. Considering 11b equipment with similar functionality is going for basement prices of $20, on the surface it seems to be a reasonable deal. I was only interested in the 11g functionality, and do not intend to [...]
I took some time to play with my Omni View SE today. While it is a little old, it’s still a solid device. It has multiple inputs on the rear, including all the inputs for the console, unlike cheaper KVMs that have some or all of the console inputs on the front. [...]