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Up rather early to check out and post some of the best of the best Black Friday Deals at Amazon.  Be lucky you don’t live where I live as the great white North got dumped on last night with one of the the heaviest snowfalls ever and it hasn’t stopped, so for me, a quick … Read More

I’m facing a boot loop issue with my Allied Telesis AT-9424T/SP switch. After powering it on, the system initializes and attempts to decompress the application image, but it eventually throws an exception and restarts. I suspect the issue might be due to an incompatibility between the bootloader and the application firmware versions. Here’s what I’ve … Read More

PC World, citing a MediaTek whitepaper, reports that instead of increasing the physical data transfer rate beyond 23 Gbps offered by Wi-Fi 7, the next-generation Wi-Fi 8—based on IEEE’s 802.11bn Ultra High Reliability (UHR) specification—will focus on improving connection reliability and user experience rather than on theoretical performance. Traditionally, new Wi-Fi iterations (as specified by … Read More

If you’re ready to take to the skies in Flight Simulator 2024, having a powerful PC is essential for enjoying the breathtaking realism it offers. The detailed textures, terrains, and hundreds of aircraft will simply bring an off the shelf PC right to its knees. Microsoft has really upped the ante this time with enhanced … Read More

The largest prime number known to man has recently been uncovered with the help of former Nvidia software engineer Luke Durant and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). GIMPS is a global effort to discover Mersenne primes — prime numbers that are formed by the formula 2^n-1 — and the group acknowledged Durant’s achievement … Read More

Ukrainian researchers have uncovered Western-made components in North Korean missiles used by Russia in its war against Ukraine. These components, which include microcontrollers, came from at least nine Western companies despite strict sanctions. This discovery highlights weaknesses in enforcing export controls and raises concerns about the continued flow of technology to North Korea and Russia, … Read More

With respect to IP Multicast having PIM sparse mode and IGMP snooping in place consider the scenario having 2 x routers connected to LAN switch. The multicast receivers are also connected to same LAN Switch. The connectivity diagram is shown herewith. Below are few points regarding protocols :- PIM Sparse Mode is running on R1/R2 … Read More

I’m wondering how can make dhcp work in this topology? I’m using router as a dhcp L3: ip routing ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! spanning-tree mode pvst ! ! ! ! ! ! interface FastEthernet0/1 switchport access vlan 10 ! interface FastEthernet0/2 switchport access vlan … Read More

Geekom builds some of the best mini PCs currently available, managing to pack an awful lot of hardware into some very small packages. A prime example is the tiny but mighty Geekom A7 R9, which we’re currently swooning over thanks to a very nice early Black Friday discount – one that makes it even better … Read More

A mysterious new Intel Arc graphics engine has made an appearance on GFXBench, featuring significantly faster performance than Lunar Lake’s latest Xe2-based Arc 140V iGPU. Shared on X by Michael (@miktdt), the GPU is listed as Arc 140T, and delivers a frame rate that was over 60% faster than the Arc 140V in GFXBench’s OpenGL … Read More