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May/08

Virtual Machine And VPN

ExtremeTech podcast episode #128 had an interesting way of combining the two methods. Some VPN clients like Cisco has the option set by admin to disconnect all external network connections except the active VPN connection. This makes the user part … Continue reading

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May/08

Microsoft Publisher 2007 Freezing Problems

I have been doing work and everything was going fine till I started up Publisher to do my title page. First Publisher froze and then all other explorer related windows froze like explorer, desktop (it’s funny the desktop seems to … Continue reading

10

May/08

More Nas Talk

I have done some more research into NAS devices and specifically the Drobo/DroboShare and Netgear’s ReadyNas NV+ / Pro. The Pro line is the new product line of NAS systems. Currently they do a 2 and 6 bay version but … Continue reading

07

May/08

Server Hardware Upgrade

I managed to find a PCI network card lying around and installed it into the server. It now has 2 Netgear FA311 cards and I can now try and get a dhcp proxy server going. I will try this sometime … Continue reading

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May/08

SonyEricsson K800i No Sim / Battery Problem

I switch between my K800i and my Motorola Ming. The K800i is a great phone but it does have it’s problems when it comes to swapping sim cards in and out. In order to take the sim card out of … Continue reading

06

May/08

Canon Hacker’s Development Kit (CHDK)

I found an article on Life Hacker and it appears that people are creating cool firmwares for Canon cameras. The best thing about it is: Free as in beer Adds new features Scripting functionality DOES NOT OVERWRITE FIRMWARE The last … Continue reading

05

May/08

New Theme Adjustment

I have made minor adjustment to the post list on the new theme. I moved the post categories to the top next to the post time and renamed the comments.

04

May/08

Think Post Problem

Not even a week in and Think Post has a problem. Think Post had a database failure related to password server. When Thunderbird checked for new email, it prompted for a password. I have had this problem before so I … Continue reading