Monthly Archives: May 2008

Mini Apple TV – no its not a new product

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I have just retired a Mac Mini running 0s/X 10.3.9 from a role monitoring networks using Nagios. Built from source on this machine Nagios has been a good and reliable tool but recently I decided to virtualise this monitoring and move it to Ubuntu. That went well but left me thinking what I could do […]

Too much bandwidth for a Draytek 2820 ?

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Some time ago I had issues with Draytek 2800 routers on adsl lines that were getting above 7 MB download speeds but that were having problems sustaining connection and found that a command had been added to the CLI which allowed setting the maximum download rate to a value that was less but more reliable. […]

Terminal Services Client V6 notes

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Since I moved to a Vista 64 bit desktop – I have noted some of the subtle and not so subtle differences in the terminal server client. Specifically the annoying popup about not being able to verify the server you are connecting to and its “fix” – Always connect, even if authentication fails Server authentication […]

IE 8 and Windows XP Service Pack 3

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I picked this up from Microsoft today and would suggest anyone using IE on XP should take a good look at the instructions regarding removal and reinstallation. I’m in the process of upgrading my backup machine to XP SP3 – seemed fairly painless and no errors – but like SP2 only longer 🙂 I notice […]

Xobni (thats Inbox backwards to you) ..

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Finally – after the loss of Lookout (bought by Microsoft and thrown down a deep hole) – I was really hoping someone would grasp the nettle of Inbox overload – ala Splunk and other information management tools. So today was my lucky day. There it was in my inbox – a tool called xobni that […]

Oops I did it again ….. again

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My main phone is a TyTN II with Orange. I depend on it for my normal contact with clients and for it to have problems is really not a great option. So I have to ‘fess up. I’ve had the phone handset replaced twice in the last three weeks !! Both times the unit was […]

Vista on a TC1100 tablet PC

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If you’d have asked me about this a few weeks ago – I’d have been dubious about the performance – even about the viability of this. After a disk failure I was left with the decision of what operating system to put back on to the new larger disk I used to replace the faulty […]