The ability to use another transmission line if the regular line is busy.
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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- Blog posts 2008-09-22
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- Comcast submits plan to limit heavy users"Second Stream", or Setting Up the "2-Tiering" Stage?"Comcast will do this by creating a second stream of traffic for recent heavy users that will have a lower priority when compared to its other customers..."The new scheme would seem to be a lot fairer than...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista?
- How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista?Long Live Windows SupportNot only is the lifecycle well-documented, but nobody supports their products for as long a lifecycle as Microsoft. Microsoft is still supporting Windows 2000, released 8.5 years ago, and Internet Explorer 5.5 on it.Apple supports only the last two OS...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-21
- Softgroup .Net ListView (zip)
- Integrated in-place editing of items/subitems with TextBox or TextButton, support for alternate background and foreground colors, enable/disable columns sizing,enable/disable columns swapping, integrated sorting mode with custom data types, gets/sets headers background color, gets/sets headers foreground color, gets/sets headers gradient background color, gets/sets headers font style, enable/disable column headers gradient effect,...
- Software downloads 2008-09-16
- SteelEye Technology Announces DR for Hyper-V
- As Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V makes its way into the market, quite a number of virtualization technology suppliers have announced support. Recently SteelEye, a company with deep expertise in high availability/clustering solutions, joined the party by announcing SteelEye DataKeeper support for the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...The Last QuestionIf you really want to confuse people about this issue, have them read Asmiov's "The Last Question". Then see if they think about this issue the same way.Take care............WayneWhy is there necessarily a conflict?As a former science teacher, I handled the topic of...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...
- Professor Michael Reiss, Director of Education for the Royal Society, seriously irritated most of his fellow Royal Society members and a good chunk of the scientific community by posting a blog entry on September 11th suggesting that creationism and intelligent design should not automatically be excluded from science education. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
- The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Klondike Solitaire (exe)
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- Software downloads 2008-09-12
- What are we breathing now? Let me guess...
- What are we breathing now? Let me guess...AIRSO!please stop using my AIR hold your breath so we can get clean air. you are messing it all up for usGET A REAL JOBBreathing deeplyconfident in the fact that the human system is excellent at filtering out all manner of substances...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Dell Inspiron Mini 9
- We've known for some time that Dell was working on a Netbook-style laptop--the same kind of small, low-power, inexpensive system made popular by Asus and the Eee PC line. And even though there are not many surprises in the new Inspiron Mini 9, it's still an excellent example of the...
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld becomes McCain
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- 2008 BMW 128i Convertible
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- Product reviews 2008-09-05
- Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?
- Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?How did we not see this?This is brilliant on Microsoft's behalf. They do get rid of the anti-trust sentiments at least the plausible ones and still have their share in the market.Now, don't misunderstand me. It's going to take a lot more...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- gigaBug (zip)
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- Software downloads 2008-09-03
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- Software downloads 2008-09-01
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