Some of you will know of my odd status as a PC and Mac user. I switch between both depending on where I am and what I’m doing; you’ll also know of my weakness for shiny Apple hardware and my purchase of a MacBook Pro within hours of their release. So I followed with interest…
The Best Windows PC is… a Mac?
By Howard | Published April 6th, 2006We're beyond baby steps now…
By Howard | Published March 13th, 2006The wizards (nay, geniuses) over at the Max OS X Internals Blog have developed what they’re calling BAMBIOS – software that allows legacy booting on Intel-based Macs. From their post: For example, a regular (that is, non-EFI) version of Linux can be readily booted using this software. [...] Linux works fine, and we have made…
m0n0wall and MS Virtual Server
By Howard | Published March 4th, 2006We recently had the need to simulate a routed environment with low bandwidth/high latency links between remote sites. To achieve this I used m0n0wall – a free software router – running inside Microsoft Virtual Server on multiple virtual NICs. Here’s how to get it up and running…
Things I Have Learned This Week
By Howard | Published February 17th, 2006Thing the first: Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 does not support teamed NICs on the host. This bit us on the arse earlier this week when we teamed the NICs on the hosts of our virtual environment. As a result, although we could RDP to the host desktop, all our guest machines dropped off the network….
SpeedswitchXP
By Howard | Published September 14th, 2005I’ve blogged about this guys stuff before (when I had an Inspiron that overheated) but now he’s saving me grief on a different Dell. SpeedswitchXP allows you to force the speed of your processor to high-speed if speed-step, or Windows itself insists on running it at half speed. Very useful if your 1.8GHz machine keeps…
Virtualise this!
By Howard | Published September 13th, 2005Now this is frickin’ genius. I’ve been using VMWare for a while for building test environments – little ring-fenced domains for testing AD and GP and the like, but I’ve just discovered the VMware P2V Assistant. This clever boot-cd will take a physical machine – perhaps running legacy software – and turn it into a…
More LinkSys Fiddling
By Howard | Published September 15th, 2004The LinkSys doesn’t behave like a real DHCP server either. So, here’s what I did… I’ve disabled the DHCP server on the LinkSys and told it to redirect queries to the house server. The house server is now running DHCP and DNS servers for the house network. With a real DHCP server running, I can…
Question asked, question answered.
By Howard | Published September 14th, 2004I nipped into PC World before I came into the office this morning and swapped the D-Link router for the LinkSys. I’ve just had a chance to try it out at the office to see what it is capable of. Unfortunately, it’s no brighter than the equivalent D-Link – which I find surprising given that…
DSL Routers
By Howard | Published September 13th, 2004D’oh. Turns out that the D-Link DSL-G640T isn’t as good as I hoped it might be. It has a local DNS server, it has a DHCP server – great! BUT, and this surprised me, there’s no way to fix a DHCP lease by MAC address. On my old DI-713P I could put the MAC address…
Dell Tech Support
By Howard | Published September 13th, 2004Have a recent Dell portable? Beware of thermal problems due to a badly designed heatsink!
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