Once again, as soon as you mention the word Geek, this blog engine adapts to it by generating a binary post ID.
Money is a far superior gift than a gift card. While it may seem like a heartless gift at first - it also says, “I want you to be able to buy whatever you actually want without the hassle and tie-in of a gift card”
Hey Now Jeff,
Some good gift ideas.
Coding Horror Fan,
awesome, i just emailed the link to my mom and girlfriend. 
I was looking at this router just the other day. I was having a lot of trouble trying to figure out what it had over the cheaper and newer DIR-655 model. The DIR-655 marketing blurb says, “Need to give voice, gaming, or media streaming priority over other data? The DIR-655 has integrated Intelligent QoS (quality of service) technology to do just that.” Isn’t that the same thing as the gaming router claims to do?
In the end I couldn’t decide so I just bought an extra Ethernet card for one of my Linux boxes. I’m sure using it as a router will be superior anyway and still cheaper even if I have to hook a wireless AP in later. I didn’t feel the need to agonize over the details of a 10$ Ethernet card like I did over 100$ routers.
Argh! I’ve been remiss in not mentioning Ron L. Toms’ store, another great source of geek gifts:
Catapults ho!
Jeff:
I’d be surprised if your router actually works right out of the box. If you - like many of my neighbours - just plug it in, then you’re probably connecting to “dlink”.
I’m actually a little more surprised as well that you’d install a driver for a router, which is a stand-alone device that you can configure without having to put yet more “crapware” on your machine!
If I may be so bold, I had fun writing up this (mostly useless) guide: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/12/07/home-is-where-their.html
I read your post then saw this. I thought it was funny seeing as what your company does.
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i wanted to get this for xmas, but i don’t think it’s quite out.
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Joel: so that’s how it is at your house, eh? Xmas prison rules?
After this weekend’s experience of gaming over a $40 Belkin Wal-Mart special, I think I’m going to consider this D-Link.
Thanks for the links. Although I must say this looks like a list geared towards the 20 percenters. Where is our list - the 80%er list
The wi-fi finder T-shirt is super cool.
It’s too bad that in Argentina, only a very rich guy can buy as much as you ;). A high end computer is 1000 dollars, and that only has like 2GB RAM, pirated Windows, Core 2 Quad Q6600, and Geforce 8600. But of course, some of us nerds are much devoted to overclocking.
Jeff,catapults…catapults!Do you want to start a Roman conquest? Neighbours of Jeff BEWARE!
What do you use on the client end, Jeff? I want to make the plunge to 802.11n (especially for browsing photo collections – when they’re 10MP pics, it really shows the bandwidth limits navigating through them, at least when depending upon the client to resize instead of resizing on the server-side).
…sorry, didn’t actually regain the original thread after existing the parenthesis there: Anyways, I’d have already made the transition if these Dell laptops came with draft 802.11n. The dongle route just isn’t appealing.
You geek!
“So it’s like money, but not as good?”
- Dogbert, talking about gift cards