http://slayernine.com/word "Internet, Life and everything else" Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:16:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last year or so we have seen some incredible changes take place with AMD and ATI. The ATI 4870 was a real step in the right direction with low cost high performance cards in comparison to nVidia's offerings. Now in fourth quarter 2009 we have seen ... http://slayernine.com/word/?p=83 It seems like just the other day I was reviewing the 4870 and here I have just purchased a 5870 a week ago now. Thoroughly enjoying it aside from some issues witheyefinity that I will elaborate on later. http://slayernine.com/word/?p=82 Well to update my previous postings about load balancing two internet connections I have indeed succeeded finally. I was able to get PF Sense to work properly using different hardware. However I discovered a deep hatred for firewalls that inspect my packets too vigorously. Its just an ... http://slayernine.com/word/?p=80 Clark Connect was a total failure as I found out mid installation that they do not support multi wan for the community edition. Once again I find out that you are required to fork over the dough for multi wan support :( Giving PFSense another go, found the issue was ... http://slayernine.com/word/?p=79 So starting on Saturday morning when the guys from Shaw Cable came over and setup my new internet connection (plus some other things for phone and tv) I've been trying to load balance my two internet connections. You are probably saying, hey man why do you want to do ... http://slayernine.com/word/?p=76 Yes it is finally announced and with even more delicious features than I was expecting!!! Wifi, Multitouch, xbox live integration to name a few! Check out this picture: http://slayernine.com/word/?p=75 Well I finally finished my first post secondary endeavor. This last semester I took my last class in the evenings and it was likely the easiest class I took in the last couple years. It feels good to be done. I started off in Computer Science back in 2005 ... http://slayernine.com/word/?p=73 I'm running the Windows 7 Release Candidate and I am surprised how much better I like it in comparison to Vista. Everything just has a very correct feeling about it. The best new things: 1. Taskbar - they took off from where Vista started and finished the job. 2. Wallpaper slideshow, its ... http://slayernine.com/word/?p=72 Yesterday I spent a few hours building a mini pc to run a popular firewall product by Astaro. Their security gateway is a lot more than just a firewall as it can handle almost any networking task you throw at it.  It does everything from load balancing to virus scanning ... http://slayernine.com/word/?p=69 http://slayernine.com/word/?p=65