C.O.D. Protests The Protect IP Act

Personally, I am sick and tired of the United States government meddling more and more in our lives.  The movie and music industry is using our elected officials like puppets (muppets) and we are sitting idly by and letting it happen.  Well, I signed the petition, and my voice will be heard next election.  G.R.I.P. – Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians.  If we really want to make changes, we have to get those that pander to big business out of office and let them know that we have the power to do it.  After all, they are there to represent Read More…

QNAP QPKGTaipei, Taiwan, March 2011 - QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers announced today 4 new QPKG add-on applications and 3 updates to the original QPKGs for its NAS customers. These QPKGs give users a versatile NAS covering their need from web applications such as Gallery, to media servers and download utilities consisting of PS3 Media Server, pyLoad, and Transmission. These applications improve a QNAP NAS by enabling it not only as a pure storage server, but also a powerful yet energy-efficient downloading machine, multimedia sharing center to game consoles with transcoding capability, IP TV streaming, online photo sharing server, and an all purposed web server with advanced manageability.

QNAP TS-x59 Pro II Series Taipei, Taiwan, March 2011 - QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world-class NAS servers, NVR Video Surveillance Systems, and Network-based Media Players today announced expansion of their popular Business Series lineup of Turbo NAS servers, to include the new TS-x59 Pro II series: the 4-drive TS-459 Pro II, the 5-drive TS-559 Pro II, and the 6-drive TS-659 Pro II. The TS-x59 Pro II lineup sports the powerful yet energy-efficient dual-core Intel® Atom™ D525 1.8GHz processor along with 1GB of DDRIII RAM (expandable to 3GB). In addition to powerful processors, the new models are the first in the industry to support SATA 6Gb/s hard drives. Also new is USB 3.0 support, ensuring internal and external hard drives deliver the highest performance possible.

Taipei, Taiwan, March 2011 – QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers today announced expansion of their entry-level Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of the TS-412U rack-mounted NAS server targeted at the fast-growing SMB and workgroup market segments. The TS-412U features 4 SATA hard drives with up to 12TB of total capacity (using 3TB drives, not included) packaged in a compact 1U rack-mounted chassis. The TS-412U supports 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard drives in hot-swappable drive carriers, giving users more flexibility in selecting hard drives for installation. The TS-412U features a Marvell 1.2GHz CPU and 256MB of DDRII memory, providing sustained high performance with low power consumption.

Most of you have probably seen the commercials from Microsoft touting the cloud experience behind Windows 7 and Windows Live.  The thing is... many of us that have Windows 7 don't really know how to do some of the things they show in those commercials.  In this multi-part series, we will attempt to demystify the "cloud" and show you how to make it happen.

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Some people like quiet computing, others like the wind tunnel experience.  Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.  The winding hum of fans whisking air through my rig is calming for me; much like vacuums to a baby.  However, I am not the norm, oddly.  Many of today's users seem to look towards a peaceful experience in front of the keyboard instead of the days when we thought having a computer that sounded like a hovercraft was cool.  A few companies have made a name for themselves by offering peripherals and devices that marry performance with peace and quiet.  Nexus thinks they have the proper balance with their new FLC-3000 (R2).

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QNAP VS-2008LTaipei, Taiwan, March, 2011 - QNAP Security, a leading manufacturer of Linux-embedded, standalone Network Video Recorder (NVR) solutions today announced its first new consumer-ready standalone video surveillance recording system, the two-drive VioStor VS-2008L (8 channels) and VS-2004L (4 channels). The new models not only reduce the acquisition costs for customers, but also deliver high performance for recording from up to 4-8 video cameras simultaneously. Surveillance video is recorded on the internal hard drives (up to 4TB, sold separately) and the VioStor unit is attached to an existing network and can be configured and monitored from any PC on the network. The VioStor NVR is ideal for secure surveillance of different locations such as home, small offices, convenience stores, retail and healthcare outlets, and more.

Sometimes the stockpile of goodies gets a little too high... and we need to make room! This time around, C.O.D. will be giving away the GlacialTech Alaska Multiple Platform CPU Cooler.  This is a review unit and has some wear and tear, including 1 broken screw.

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For years now, I have been using TinyMCE for WordPress to enhance the editor with some new buttons.  However, I only found myself typically using the "Next Page" button and never really touched any of the others.  I also noticed that some of the new functionality in WordPress 3.1 wasn't present when using the plugin.  In the interest of keeping the "Next Page" button and losing the plugin, you can add some simple code to your functions.php file.

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