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Netgear FVS114: IPsec routing on the cheap

This review will take a look at NETGEAR’s FVS114 ProSafe VPN Firewll 8, which supports up to eight LAN-to-LAN or remote-client VPN connections.

Although named a “VPN firewall,” the FVS114 is actually a fairly traditional router enhanced with VPN capabilities. If fact, as you’ll notice from some of the screen images used in this article, the FVS114 management interface is very similar to what you’ll find in NETGEAR’s routers targeted at home consumers. However, the FVS114 is housed in a blue metal box, a design that NETGEAR generally uses for its business-class products.
by Craig Ellison.

PS3 available pre-installed with Linux

Linux distributor TerraSoft is accepting pre-orders for Sony Playstation3 gaming devices pre-installed with Linux, alongside the PS3’s native gaming OS. Additionally, TerraSoft, IBM, RapidMind, and Vivendi game publisher High Moon Studios are offering seminars to help game developers exploit the PS3’s Cell architecture.

Sony’s Playstation3 does not run Linux as its standard OS. However, the device’s Cell BE processor has been supported in the mainline Linux kernel since late last year, and TerrSoft has offered a version of its Yellow Dog Linux for the Playstation3 since October — a month before the PS3 actually shipped.
from LinuxDevices.com.

D-Link DSM-510: Save a little, lose a lot

When I reviewed D-Link’s DSM-520 last year, I found it to be a capable network multimedia device suitable for playing digital media in the family room. As with all of these types of devices, I found that it had issues. But overall, it did about as well as any multimedia box I had tested up to that time.

Now D-Link has come out with a “little brother” to the DSM-520 that takes a different approach to the media-serving problem. In this review, I’ll check out the capabilities of D-Link’s DSM-510 to see how well it stacks up to its big brother.
by Jim Buzzbee.

A New Wave of Computing

Briefly, quantum computers are designed around the concepts of quantum mechanics. While the basis of traditional computers is the bit, which can only occupy one of two states: on or off. Quantum computers are built around the qubit (quantum bit), which, in the most simple terms, is capable of occupying multiple states at the same time, when necessary–being both on and off (zero and one) simultaneously. Whereas traditional computers would have to manipulate its bits to achieve the desired result, quantum computers must manipulate its qubits. Now what does this all mean, you ask?
by Ryan Passey.

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