August 11, 2008
One of the first routers to offer a Coax Mo CA connection that allows it to feed data for set-top boxes is the Actiontec MI424WR Router. It runs a BusyBox distribution of the embedded Linux operating system. Its antenna is removable and a reverse polarity SMA connection is also used.
Backed by Actiontec Electronics Inc., a company based in Silicon Valley, California which is engaged in designing and selling networking and broadband equipments, the MI424WR Router is given to Verizon customers, particularly its FiOS customers. The Verizon FiOS edition is branded in the firmware and on the clamshell and is labeled as revision C or D. Revisions A and B have large squared off clamshell that is not Verizon branded.
It is becoming increasingly easy to download, create and store high quality audio and video files but the multitude of formats and conventions can make managing them quite confusing. While there are a number of products available to handle various media formats, it is rare to find one that handles as many formats as Blaze Media Pro, let alone do such a great job as Blaze Media Pro does. This all in one video converter can convert any type of format and I do mean any. Blaze Media Pro supports CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC for audio and MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV for video. Blaze Media Pro also does a great job with video editing, merging and extracting as well as CD and DVD ripping.
Red Hat Linux was originally made freely available to anyone who wished to download it. The product line was eventually split into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora. RHEL was designed to be stable and with long term support for enterprise users while Fedora served as the community distribution and project that is sponsored by Red Hat.
Red Hat makes available the complete source code to its enterprise distribution through its FTP site. Some groups have taken this source code to compile their own versions of RHEL, with usually the only changes being the removal of any reference to Red Hat’s trademarks and porting the update systems to non-Red Hat servers. These are the so-called rebuilds which do not get commercial support or consultancy services from Red Hat. They also lack any software, hardware or security certification.
This isn’t something I typically discuss but I figured this is something I simply have to show you. Normally when you think of online shopping you think computers, electronics and perhaps books but I just discovered EyeBuyDirect.com. While it may not seem obvious to purchase eye glasses online, when you see the price tag you understand just what Eye Buy Direct is about. You can choose from a selection of stunning eye glasses for under $10 complete with prescription. These kind of savings put whatever discount you may get on consumer electronics to shame.
