Hardware

Two Network Cards (NIC’s) in a Windows XP machine connecting to two different subnets

I had a customer recently wanting to setup a new Ricoh multifunction colour printer on their network. The problem is they are connected wirelessly to another tenants network for Internet access and the new printer only has USB and Ethernet connections.
As they had old cabling installed in the wall that terminated back to just a [...]

Hardware, Networking, Windows

I hope they release a new iPhone at WWDC on Monday!

As much as I love my iPhone and firmly believe it is simply the best phone around there are a few things that still frustrate the crap out of me about it.
1. Dropped Calls
The biggest complaint I have is the dropped calls. I am not sure if it is the iPhone or the Optus network [...]

Hardware

My adventures with the Dell Mini 9 and installing OSX 10.5

I recently bought one of the wonderful Dell Mini 9 netbooks to use as a basic task replacement to my now 2 year old 15″ Macbook Pro. As an added bonus, it is also one of the best netbooks to install OSX on.
Actually, I had intentions of installing OSX on it right from the beginning, [...]

Hardware, OSX