Re: Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

2009-09-23 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: On 09/22/2009 09:27 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: I would much appreciate a report on its VLAN support, actually. They mention Link Aggregation and trunking. I have a 16 port version that does this and also calls it

Re: Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

2009-09-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: You can number and name VLAN's. The range is 1-4092, but I read only 64 simultaneous are available. Yes, this is because each VLAN on the switch is modeled as being its own seperate instantation of a bridge, and each instance takes up system resources. [...] There's

Sansa, Rockbox, Free Software for antiques (was: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux)

2009-09-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes: It's worth shopping around for these, too: NewEgg offers Sansa products, refurbished, at quite a bargain. They've got a 2Gb Clip in today's mailing for $24.99. Woot! often has refurb Sansas at good prices. Also, consider installing Rockbox

Re: Sansa, Rockbox, Free Software for antiques (was: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux)

2009-09-23 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:59:21PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Luckily, the Sansa devices seem to be nigh indestructible--so if you get one onto which you can load Rockbox, you shouldn't need to worry much about how you'll never be able to replace it when it breaks :) I've been using