I made my dumb appliances smarter with the Internet of Things Sometimes I forget things. In particular, I forget to transfer my clean but wet laundry from the washing machine to the dryer. When this happens,... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Networking |
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Mixing power-line networking with Wi-Fi proves intoxicating You may recall my failed attempt at using a second Wi-Fi router in repeater mode in order to overcome some signal-strength issues in the... Type: Blog post Tags: Networking |
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Time Warner slings free Maxx upgrades to counter Google Fiber I've been chronicling the slow progress of Google Fiber moving into my metro area, my city, and eventually, into my house. Since Google Fiber... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Networking |
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My first foray into password management For Internet users, the week of April 6 was undoubtedly one of the most annoying and harrowing in recent history. OpenSSL's Heartbleed bug was simultaneously... |
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Google, I love you, but you're bringing me down I was listening to LCD Soundsystem the other day, and New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down somehow coalesced my feelings... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Internet Operating systems Personal tech |
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Local game streaming: Coming soon from the PC Nvidia's Project Shield was one of the most intriguing new products on display at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. This handheld gaming device combines the... Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming Networking |
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Freshening up a home network can yield big bandwidth benefits One of the funny things about being a PC enthusiast, for me, is how there's a constant ebb and flow of little projects that I... Type: Blog post Tags: Networking |
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Postponing the podcast Despite the pain that it causes us (and you, but mostly us), we are delaying this week's episode of the podcast. As usual, we want... |
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Podcast scheduling update I promise we're not making this a habit. We're delaying the podcast by one more week. I know you were expecting an episode, but I wanted... |
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Goodbye, Google+ I asked Google to delete my Google+ account the other day. I did it without second thoughts, without regrets, after using the service for barely a... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Internet |
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Have Internet, will travel To borrow the first line from The Streets' magnificent A Grand Don't Come for Free, it was supposed to be so easy. After a brutally... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Personal tech |
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Podcast delay update... but you already knew that In an egregiously belated fashion, I'm checking in with a quick update to say that we are delaying the podcast by one week and will... Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report Podcast |
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If data can be lost, it will Murphy was right. If something can go wrong, it will... eventually. Earlier this week, the water main connected to our house burst, submerging... |
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Delaying the podcast, because we care In what is sure to be a wildly unpopular decision, we've decided to push the podcast back a week. From the underground lair of Damage... |
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A belated podcast scheduling note You'll have to forgive me for the tardy timing of this blog post. What with Christmas vacation, followed by a crazy work week, topped with... Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report Podcast |
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Congratulations to our 100th episode giveaway winners! A week after we posted our big 100th episode of the TR Podcast, we're now ready to draw and announce our 5 lucky winners of... |
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The TR Podcast: Help us celebrate 100 episodes If you're a regular listener of the TR Podcast, you're probably aware of the fact that our next episode, set to be released this Sunday... |
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Our slow migration into the cloud There's been a lot of talk about the cloud lately. I'm not sure exactly when clouds came to represent noisy server farms thousands of miles... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Internet |
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I got up this morning and retested the Intel system with DDR4-2666 memory. I'm not going to type up all the results here, but I will note that there i... | +20 |