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Continue reading →: Nows the time to buy a Dell in China
With Intels Core Duo 2 out and the 975P chipset, its way out in front in terms of performance. However, AMD has just dropped all their processor prices, so if you don’t overclock, at the budget level, get an Athlon X2 3800+ over a E6300 1.83GHz However, if you go…
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Continue reading →: Wifi Tools
OK, here’s the definitive set of tools that I use to make sure a wifi network is working: * “Advanced LAN Scanner”:http://www.radmin.com/products/utilities/lanscanner.php. This is super useful for figuring out what devices and computers are actually on a network. When you get to a new network run it and it will…
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Continue reading →: Dell Dimension 9200
The Intel Core Duo 2 finally appears in the chinese market as the “Dimension 9200”:http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_9200_cn?c=cn&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn. They have a great “promotion”: right now where if you pay an extra 4000 RMB ($500), you get 2GB of memory and a 20″ monitor. Given that they make them in China, not a bad…
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Continue reading →: Apple Announcements
“The Mercury News”:http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15503747.htm notes Apple announced a refresh of their iPods for the fall selling season and unexpectedly, demonstrated their upcoming set top box code named iTV which looked really cool. Here is what you can now get, in rough order of importance: * Downloadable movies. They are going to…
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Continue reading →: Small Business Server 2003 SP1 Notes
OK, here are the tidbits that I gathered froma quick read of the “planning”:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/plan/gsg/chptr3a.mspx guide and also there are some SBS enthusiasts like “SBS Rocks”:http://www.sbs-rocks.com/Links.htm and the very useful “Documentation by Task’:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/productdoc/topic.mspx for SBS * After you install SBS, you can *not* change the DNS name of the domain, the…
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Continue reading →: Motorola KRZR K1
!>http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motokrzr/images/thumb_motokrzr_k1.jpg!:http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motokrzr/They are here the next generation RAZR is now available from OEM sites. They are expensive at $400 or so, but they are coming. They are basically slightly slimmer and smaller, but the main technical features are a 2 megapixel camera, EDGE for faster data services, a MicroSD memory card…
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Continue reading →: Small Business Server 2003
We got one of these for our office and it is just enough different that it is a little confusing to me. I kind of lost track of how Windows and Exchange worked with Windows NT and Exchange 4.0, so I date myself. Fortunately, “Microsoft”:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/default.mspx has Technet which has lots…
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Continue reading →: Concierge.com Shanghai Restaurants
“Concierge”:http://www.concierge.com/destination/shanghai/eating is the Conde Nast Traveler web site. Aside from T8, they have some other great recommendations including 3 on the Bund. I’ve been there and while the food was very good, the main thing was the amazing view of the Bund. Other ones that I need to check out…
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Continue reading →: ANA
Wow, I flew “ANA”:http://www.anaskyweb.com/us/e/travelservice/index.html business class from Shanghai to Tokyo, it sure is luxurious. The seats are nice and firm. (I sure wish United would upgrade theirs) and they reline to just about flat, but 130 degrees down, so not quite flat. Also they have those cool movie on demand…
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