Maxwell Thelen

When you watch satellite TV you are, of course, receiving a broadcast from a satellite, but where is that satellite? Up in orbit in the outer reaches of earth’s gravity. Do you have to move your dish around every minute to keep it pointed at the satellite? Of course you don’t, that is because the satellite is in “Geostationary Orbit.” This is a fancy way of saying that as the earth turns the satellite moves in orbit so that it stays in the same place relative to the surface of earth. So, is geostationary orbit “space” that can’t be owned or is it the upper reaches of airspace that nations are usually acknowledged to be sovereign over?

This is your LAN, this is your LAN on drugs, just kidding. However, this is traffic on my router while streaming Netflix to my laptop (which you probably do) and uploading a DVD to a server from that laptop at the same time (which you probably don’t do). Props if you know which stream is [...]

I recently installed Windows 7 Professional on my Asus Eee PC 1000HE so I thought I would give an initial review for those interested in doing the same or similar.  So far the experience has been very pleasant the install was quick and painless and as soon as it booted up it had every single [...]

I am now finished with my military training at the Signal School in Fort Gordon, Ga.  I am headed up to Virginia Beach where I will start law school this fall at Regent.  I have had my netbook for almost six months now so I thought I would take some time to write some opinions [...]

In the world of networking Cisco dominates, atleast in the Army portion of the world.  I finished the Cisco IT Essentials course about a week ago and now I am in the Cisco Netorking portion of my signal officer education.  It is the entire first semester of CCNA prep in 10 days – very intense, [...]

As technology has become an increasing part of the way people conduct their lives day to day it may be necessary to rethink the way home networks are implemented.   As experience streamlines information technology many devices that were separate have become one and functionalities have been added.  For instance, that ordinary looking wireless home [...]