Category: Technology

Why I think Ultrabook has a chance

As CES is approaching us, the IT industry is very excited, and many will expect hands-on experience on a fully built Ultrabooks, a term coined by Intel as the next generation thin-light laptop. To me the Ultrabook seems more like a marketing hype than any real innovation, however, I fully support bringing the “Ultrabook” to… Read more »

Microsoft celebrates IE6 funeral with cake

It might not be completely accurate to say that Internet Explorer 6 is completely dead. The celebration at Redmond, WA. came after Net Application reported that usage of IE6 in the United States during the month of December has dropped below 1%. It is not the first time that Microsoft wanted to bury IE6 in… Read more »

Cisco blunder: ūmi dead in the consumer market

The news was first broken and speculated by Larry Chaffin at Networld World when Chaffin spoke to a friend about the Cisco UMI fire sales at Best Buy and noticed discontinued support for the UMI from the Cisco telephone support. Yesterday, Cisco spokesperson told CRN officially that Cisco has began withdrawing the UMI from the… Read more »

December Promotions!

There are only a few weeks left in December, and don’t let these awesome promotions slip away before it is too late! These offers ends on December 31, 2011. Myriad Supply giving out free iPad2!! Details: All our customers will receive a free iPad2 for every $25,000 spent at Myriad Supply! There is no limit,… Read more »

Cisco Quick Tips/Answers #3

Another entry to the series. Some customers make purchase of new Cisco VoIP phones and could not get the phones working, and one of the problems is incompatible firmware. All Cisco phones come with SCCP firmware by default. Make sure to check with your hosted VoIP provider or network engineer to confirm which type of… Read more »

Solid-State Drives might just get even cheaper and bigger.

source: Computer World Hot on the heel of my post yesterday about the rising prices of traditional mechanical hard drives (HDD), and the declining price of Solid-state drives (SSD), today, Intel, Micron doubles the density of NAND flash memory, which is what the vast majority of the current SSD use as their storage technology. The… Read more »

Ever wonder how much a fiber or Ethernet cable weigh?

Do you ever wonder how much a fiber or Ethernet cable weigh?  Most scales don’t pick them up, so we’ve decided to help you out! Here is our handy chart for cable weights. An Excel calculator to calculate Ethernet Cable or Fiber Cable weight at any length is also available for you to download and… Read more »

Hard Drive Shortage, SSD Manufacturers smirking?

→ Follow Up Post The natural disaster that struck Thailand and hit the Bang Pa-in Industrial Park sent Hard Drive prices sky-high, and the consumers has already felt the pinch with prices of many hard drives rising more than 100%. Many news outlets have focused on the effect the flooding have caused on traditional hard… Read more »

Cisco Quick Tips/Answers #2

Today, we are going to give some quick pointers when considering the Cisco Aironet 3500 Series Wireless Access Point and Cisco’s CleanAir™ technology. All thew new Cisco CleanAir™ 3500 APs require a controller. There are no stand-alone autonomous version available as of current. The Cisco CleanAir™ Technology is supported on all Cisco WLAN Controllers. However,… Read more »

Microsoft ICS Nuisance and netsh

What is Microsoft ICS? It stands for the built-in Internet Connection Sharing function in Windows since Windows 98 SE for sharing a single internet connection from a PC with multiple internet connection interface to other PCs in a LAN. Now, you might ask me why I’d ever do that instead of using a stand-alone router/switch?… Read more »