Like many IT professionals, I have friends and family who ask me various computer help questions, and also get me to do system upgrades. This is usually for Windows XP based systems. Recently my inlaws were hinting that they wanted to upgrade.
For a few years now they’ve had an old Athlon 1800, 384MB of DDR [...]
OK, rather than continue to whinge about this macbook keyboard I took it in to an Apple Service Centre. As I’ve said, the symptom I have is that the keyboard works fine if I type slowly, but if I type fast, I get lots of characters missing. Some more than others (the L, P and [...]
As a Unix sysadmin, I am using ssh every day. Its an innocuous little tool thats absolutely essential. Sure it does terminal sessions, but its all the other little features that make it quite indespensable; port forwarding, agent forwarding ….
And they always seem to add in cool features that I never find out about until [...]
OK, so I’ve had the macbook a week now. I’m using it as my main computer and the keyboard is painful. I’m still doing lots of typos when I type fast. Especially the ‘l’ and ‘y’ keys. I’ve started to think that maybe it really is faulty, however other people seem to be annoyed as [...]
Yes, I caved in and bought a macbook. Sure I have a mac mini, but my primary machine is my Thinkpad T42, so switching to a macbook is a big change. I still think Macs are too expensive, so I ended up going to the online Apple store and ordering a refurbished one. It’s the [...]
OK, so my adventure working out of NZ is over. My trip back involved stopping in London and Belgium and Japan on the way back. London was cold, wet and expensive. Belgium was slightly less cold and wet and Japan was ‘just right’. This is my second trip to Japan, and it’s such an [...]
So I’ve had my Mac Mini for about half a year now. I thought the base 1GB configuration should have been good enough, but lately the Mac has been ‘feeling’ like the slowest machine here. I’ve already mentioned that the Mac Mini is not good for running VMware. And I have a lot of [...]
My Mac mini has wifi and bluetooth built in. I’m not a big fan of either so I have them both turned off. The mac makes this easy. There are bluetooth and wifi icons on the main menu bar. If you pop down a menu for either you can turn them off. I assumed that [...]
My debian etch box is a file server amongst other things and generally I
use NFS to mount its directories on other linux boxes, and as per an
earlier post I also mount these directories on the MacMini.
Generally access is read only, but I noticed my write access didn’t work
at all. I kept on getting permission [...]
I have a Windows XP virtual machine setup on vmware. Its a pretty basic build for when I need some specific Windows apps; it has an 8GB virtual drive, and 384MB of ram. Up until now I’ve run this VM on vmware on linux. I’ve tried quite a few incantations of vmware; Workstation, Server and [...]