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George Ou

George Ou
George Ou, a former ZDNet blogger, is an IT consultant specializing in Servers, Microsoft, Cisco, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, IDS, VPN, Wireless LAN, Security, and IT infrastructure and architecture.

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George Ou's networking and security insights keep enterprise managers in the know and vendors up at night.

  • Saying goodbye to ZDNet

    By George Ou | March 27, 2008, 7:16am PDT

    ZDNet blogs has been my online home since 2004.  With the help and a lot of guidance from David Berlind, Stephen Howard-Sarin, and David Grober, I was brought in to the world of blogging and...

  • 55W PC power supply powering the dual-core computer

    By George Ou | March 26, 2008, 12:35am PDT

    Most computer builders in the world think I’m nuts for endorsing the use of 330 watt power supplies for a high-end performance computer.  Conventional “wisdom” says that anything...

  • Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control

    By George Ou | March 24, 2008, 1:05am PDT

    Bob Briscoe (Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre) is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet.  He wants the world to know that TCP (Transmission...

  • HDMI survival guide for home theater

    By George Ou | March 20, 2008, 10:59pm PDT

    There’s a lot of money to be made in the HDMI cabling and switch aftermarket and unfortunately that means a lot of consumers are getting tricked in to paying outrageous prices.  I’ve...

  • The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analog

    By George Ou | March 19, 2008, 11:36pm PDT

    What happens when you want to just want a bunch of phones in your business, hotel, or organization and you don’t need a bunch of fancy and complicated features on the phone?  It’s...

  • Fraunhofer IIS shows audio technology at VON.x 2008

    By George Ou | March 19, 2008, 9:47am PDT

    In the world where chip technology improves exponentially, acoustic engineering isn’t so simple and it presents a huge hurdle to overcome to the world of telephony and video conferencing. ...

  • Japan's ISPs agree to ban P2P pirates

    By George Ou | March 16, 2008, 8:59pm PDT

    Four of Japan’s largest Internet provider organizations have come to an agreement with copyright holders on how to tackle the illegal file trading on P2P (Peer to Peer) networks.  Comprised...

  • AMD Shanghai won't get HyperTransport 3

    By George Ou | March 14, 2008, 5:45am PDT

    HyperTransport 3 which was once slated for AMD’s Barcelona server processors seem to be delayed again on Shanghai until some time in 2009 when it finally arrives for the...

  • Building the 200 inch 1080p HDTV

    By George Ou | March 11, 2008, 11:38pm PDT

    Yesterday I helped my friend build his 200 inch 1080p HDTV for his entertainment room and it was a beast of a task. But when it was all said and done, I think he was quite happy. Pictured above...

  • Early photos of AMD Shanghai CPU

    By George Ou | March 10, 2008, 5:18am PDT

    Credit: Fuad Abazovic, Fudzilla Photos of CPU-Z highlighting AMD’s 45nm Shanghai quad-core processor appeared on Fudzilla last week.  It confirms that AMD’s latest processor will have...

  • Asus' 8.9" Eee draws crowds at CeBIT

    By George Ou | March 7, 2008, 12:57am PST

    Here in CeBIT 2008, crowds descended on Hannover Germany to see the latest technologies. Germany is certainly a lovely country but there’s nothing lovable about the 5.60 Euro per gallon gas...

  • AT&T's degrading service and my landlord's ban on Comcast

    By George Ou | March 5, 2008, 8:14am PST

    With all the negative attention headed towards Comcast lately, AT&T’s problems seem to be slipping below the radar.  Unfortunately for me, those problems are first hand for me as...

  • A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

    By George Ou | March 3, 2008, 4:17am PST

    I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal.  This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a...

  • Intel christens Silverthorne as "Atom"

    By George Ou | March 2, 2008, 9:02pm PST

    Intel has officially announced its new branding for the “Silverthorne” processor and the “Menlow” platform.  The Silverthorne processor will be called the “Intel...

  • Microsoft's free enterprise search is a must try

    By George Ou | February 28, 2008, 2:21am PST

    At the Heroes Happens {here} event in LA yesterday which saw the launch* of Windows Server 2008, one of the relatively hidden gems of the event in my opinion was Microsoft’s free** Search...

  • FCC hearings: Comcast versus Vuze

    By George Ou | February 26, 2008, 5:56am PST

    The FCC held its hearing on Comcast’s Network Management practices at Harvard University yesterday.  Vuze executive Gilles BianRosa whose company filed one of the two FCC complaints against...

  • Leaked Intel Nehalem performance projections over AMD Shanghai

    By George Ou | February 24, 2008, 1:41am PST

    It appears that the rumors about Intel’s next major microprocessor “Nehalem” being a huge juggernaut may be true according to leaked documents from Sun Microsystems (removed...

  • Why Satellite Internet service is so slow

    By George Ou | February 23, 2008, 11:07pm PST

    I was reading in the news today about an experimental geosynchronous communications satellite being launched by Japan and I got to wondering about why Satellite Internet service has such...

  • One year till death of analog TV in USA

    By George Ou | February 19, 2008, 5:16am PST

    Analog TV will no longer be broadcast one year from today on February 19th 2009, are you ready for the conversion to digital TV?  This may or may not affect you so here’s what you need to...

  • Cracking open a Toshiba HD-A30 HD DVD player

    By George Ou | February 19, 2008, 2:46am PST

    Updated 3:00AM - By now the news is out that the end of HD DVD might be near since Toshiba is considering its options that may include the possibility of stopped production on HD DVD products is...

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