Belkin N1 Vision – new firmware
My Belkin N1 Vision (F5D8232uk4) gigabit router has served me well in the past, and although I would next time rather go with a Netgear or Linksys, the choice was made due to it’s gigabit ports (at the time of...
Tagged: performance
Airport Express: Manage access point remotely
Apple has released a number of updates today. In addition to the release of OSX 10.5.4 which fixes a number of performance issues on the 5Ghz wireless channels, the all important Airport 7.3.2 firmware update was released. Will Apple generally...
OS X: Rip your DVDs to your NAS-device
It could be no easier than using Handbrake on OS X. HandBrake does not require any more write-up: you install the app, pop in the DVD, select the target format and your DVD gets ripped to a number of formats...
Optimize Entourage for better performance
Just a quick guideline to get your Entourage 2008 configured with a fully functional out-of-office assistant, global address book and proper synchronisation on the LAN and while connecting remotely – beautiful: MS Exchange admins DO NOT like OS X! They...
Beta: Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 launched
The Ubuntu developers have just released Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) in beta. Since the last release (7.10), Hardy Heron sports now: Xorg 7.3 with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration Kernel 2.6.24 which includes many performance improvements and enhancements GNOME 2.22...
Yamaha YST-FSW150 down-firing subwoofer
In my previous post I mentioned the Yamaha YSP-4000 soundbar. The Digital Experience phoned me the other day, and I have completed my sound-setup with the addition of the YST-FSW150 subwoofer from Yamaha: The 130 watts subwoofer compliments the soundbar...
Belkin N1 wireless router
In anticipation of finally getting broadband I bought myself the Belkin N1 wireless router: I managed to get a R 500,00 discount from Incredible Corruption since the box was opened and the manual was missing. Nonetheless everything else was still...
Use reflection wisely
Reflection gives your code access to internal information for classes loaded into the JVM and allows you to write code that works with classes selected during execution, not in the source code. This makes reflection a great tool for building...
Exceptions in Java
Working with exceptions in Java has become among developers a common task. Most of the time, however, the concept of exceptions is misunderstood. An exception-condition prevents the continuation of a method or the scope that your are in. In some...
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