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Wireless performance woes, continued…

Posted by John Adams on November 27th, 2008

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Lately I’ve been examining the actual performance charastics of wireless networking devices.
I recently purchased a  Netgear WNR3500, and testing with iperf tells me that I see a maximum of 35Mbit/s. Many commenters have written in to ask me to try forcing the 802.11 connection to 802.11g, so I did that by installing my [...]

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VOTE!

Posted by John Adams on November 3rd, 2008

It goes without saying that tomorrow is one of the most important days in our country’s history. When you go to the polls, do everything you can to ensure that your vote is counted.
If you’re in California, vote No On 8. It brings hate crime directly into the state’s constitution. 
In San Francisco, vote Yes on K. [...]

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Tag Galaxy

Posted by John Adams on August 14th, 2008

Tag Galaxy is a 2008 thesis project from Steven Wood at the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. It allows you to explore flickr tags while looking at solar systems that represent photos and related tags.

Check it out at http://www.taggalaxy.de

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Macjournal, how I love you.

Posted by John Adams on July 24th, 2008

For the last five years I’ve used Macjournal in one edition or the other (professional, standard, and the original free edition) from Mariner Software. I just dropped $34 on the new version, primarily because of it’s auto-encryption feature.

It’s become my repository for all things of interest at work, meetings, and conferences. When I left my [...]

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