Posts by concentricity

Seriously, how is that not a MacBook Air? Oh right, the Windows logo on the option key!

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 How is paying your fair share a burden? That is the most asinine thing I've ever heard. One of the biggest problems this country has right now is giving a free ride to people that don't want to...

Quote: Originally Posted by freediverx The tax break is not "free". It comes at the expense of government services such as education, at a time when education and other vital services are under the worst strain in almost a...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Google also showed off the Chrome Web store, and revealed that it would take a flat fee of 5 percent from all transactions, leaving developers with 95 percent. That's higher than the 30 percent...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro No, the marketers have munged up the terminology so bad everything is labelled a switch in product descriptions. Easily half the descriptions interchangeably use switch and hub, some even in he same...

Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler Theoretically you could hang a 2 port router/switch off of a gigabit hub, providing one internal connection to the LAN hub and one external WAN port. This would mean that even LAN->WAN and...

The very nature of a hub is that it acts as a repeating bridge (which is a clearly defined network device, not a general term here) between separate physical network segments, essentially making multiple wire segments act as one. There...

I'm sorry Hiro, but this is just completely wrong. All routers are switches. Each and every port on even the cheapest home router is its very own network segment, with a collision domain limited to the device (computer, NAS, whatever)...

Unfortunately, Hiro's response is, um, mostly wrong. First, you don't have any collisions (well, unless there's something wrong with the Mac or the Router). I'm not going into long detail, but feel free to lookup collision domains. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Newtron People without cable are a tiny niche market. Apple does not serve tiny niche markets. Not anymore. They aim straight for Mr. Average, but they are even more acute: They want Mr. Average who has...