Ok... I wish someone could tell me why Steorn would want to pitch a "fake" device? Anything financially to gain (trying to defrauding investors before he disapears with the money? Just trying to get in the news for personal reasons?)

How many of you think he's lying and he knows it, and how many of you think he actually believes his own claim?

Just wondering...

I just bought something similar for our company. A 1TB Buffalo Technology TeraStation NAS for $800. It has 4 SATA 250GB drives (Upgradable) and has a pretty good web based control panel. I've got it set at RAID5 right now (Can loose a hard drive and it keeps going) but it reduces the storage capacity to 750GB. They have a 1TB home version you can get for under $600 if you search nextag.com for TeraStation. The only differences between the home version and the PRO version is that the home version uses EIDE hardrives instead of SATA, and you have to take it apart to swap failed drives, where the PRO has front load bays.

I've only had it a week, but so far so good....

Does anyone have a link to ABC's preview/trailer for Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America trailer? I wanted to show a friend so he could get a laugh....

By the way, The other Engadget article talking about the PRE-N router above is here:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/14/airgo-claims-current-802-11n-specs-interfere-with-802-11b-g/

:)

I had the same problem in our office building. We are on the 4th floor of a 5 story building and occupy the entire 4th floor (approx 100' x 100').

We have executives that are constantly moving from offices to conference rooms and require a wireless connection at all times. Our laptop wireless people (8 in all) were getting dropped 3 to 5 times a day. I tried every configuration I knew with our existing wireless access point and finally guessed that it was a combination of Wireless routers in other businesses on other floors, as well as low signal strength from our router.

We purchased a new Belkin Pre-N wireless router and got rid of our access point ($89 cost - I was sorta sold on the whole %800 range increase). I configured the router per it's instructions to be strickly an access point (we already have a router).

I then used a program called NetStumbler on one of our wireless laptops to scan and get channel info on all wireless networks within range, such as CHANNEL and SIGNAL TO NOISE. Channel 6 was unused, so I set it to that channel and configured all of the new laptops to talk to the Belkin Pre-N with their existing internal wireless cards ( I know they won't be getting that 800% range because their not PRE-N as well, but the reception was improved no the less)


I've been running on this configuration for a few weeks, and while we still have the occasional employee getting dropped, the frequency has been reduced by 90%.

Also, as a side note, I remember reading an article in Engadget a few weeks back stating that Belkin Pre-N wireless routers cause interference with other wireless network devices that are not PRE-N. All I can say is, "O well, too bad for the other floors in our building, because my wireless network is working much better now, for under $100 bucks".


:) Ted

My favorite article was on the nightvision scope made with the disposable CVS camera. I now own 2 cameras and am converting one to underwater use for my trip to Mexico.

Here's the Article
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/23/turn-a-single-use-camcorder-into-a-recording-nightvision-scope/

Come on guys.... You and I both know we'll eventually have Petabyte storage the size of our pinky nail... and in 100 years that will be small beans. It's all a matter of time. 5 years may be unrealistic to most for such a leap... but the speed at which technology seems to be changing makes it not an impossible statement... We went to the moon in 1969 with less technology than I have in my MP3 player. You put enough brains and money into a room and I bet they could pull this off in 5 years.

Here's a video of their presentation at the DEMO convention in Phoenix, AZ!!!
http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/62978.html

I WANT ONE!!!!