New Computer

  
I got a new computer today, an HP Pavilion; Media Center PC: m7470n. The PC has a AMD 64x 4200 Dual Core processor with 2GB of memory.

I'm loading software tonight. Sometime this week I'll starting trading hardware with my other PC ~ I want the Alienware PC to be the media/video PC, not this one.

Not the PC I really wanted, but it was the best one they had in stock ~ instead of ording one and having to take a day off to receive it.

AMD dual core, PCI Express, 2G Bytes of memory. I don't see a video card, the VGA connector is in the wrong place?

Web Site Visit Location

The recorded data over the last three weeks for visits to http://www.interfacebus.com by country:

United States: 43.14%
United Kingdom 7.13%
Canada 5.20%
India 5.01%
Germany 3.39%
Australia 2.28%
China 1.84%
Italy 1.72%
Taiwan 1.69%
France 1.59%
Other 27.01%

700Mhz RF Frequency Band

700Mhz Frequency Band

This is one of the RF Frequency band up for grabs, from the FCC, in a few months which may be used as the new wireless web. I saw a few articles which indicated that some internet companies may want to get into the web business, by passing fees from cable/phone companies for bandwidth usage.

Companies like Google may purchase RF bandwidth to start a 'wireless' web to bypass proposed fees from cable and phone companies because of their high bandwidth usage {video/audio downloads}.

There are a number of bands up for grabs ~ this one seems hot. Many of the bands are being freed up because TV broadcasts are moving from analog to digital which consumes less RF spectrum.

IEEE 802.11n

I added a new page to cover the new 802.11n specification. The page address is here;
http://www.interfacebus.com/IEEE802-11n_Wireless.html

It's the first day so the page is really just a copy of the 802.11g page, but I should be able to update that page this week end.

The IEEE 802.11n standard is still in a draft version.

802.11n supports 802.11b and 802.11g, and also runs at over 300Mbps which is a large increase over the g version that runs at on 54Mbps.

There are some pre-N products out there which were released awhile ago. Netgear just released a wireless router and PC Card based on the 802.11n draft spec which was just agreed to.

Wireless Products

I added another few pages tonight. One page covers Wireless Router Manufacturers, while the other page covers Wireless Print Servers Manufacturers.

Both pages list the type of products the wireless manufacturers produce.

The main page for the web site is http://www.interfacebus.com/, and contains additional pages for computers and equipment.

Protection Software

I added a new page to the OEM software section of the site. Currently the page deals with Protection Software, or Anti-Spyware and Anti-Adware software vendors. This page is listed on the
Protection Software page. This page lists all the major Anti-Virus software vendors. The next up-grade will list the Anti-Adware software manufacturers.

The main software page for the site is listed on the Engineering Design Automation software page [EDA Software].

While the main page for the site is listed on the home page; www.interfacebus.com

RS422 Interface

I divided up the RS422 and RS485 interfaces into their own pages. So the orignal page address lists only RS422 informantion; RS422.

The new page address for RS485 information is here; RS485

RS422 [EIA422] defines a differential interface using a single, unidirectional driver with up tp 32 receivers. The RS-422 interface will support Point-to-Point, and Multi-Drop circuits.

RS485 [EIA-485] specifies a bidirectional, half-duplex data transmission. Up to 32 transmitters and 32 receivers may be interconnected in any combination, including one driver and multiple receivers (multi-drop), or one receiver and multiple drivers.