Any good network/system design should start with the management station. It’s often easy to forget about this and start at the cabling system, servers, or computer room physicalities but without a reliable point of access then managing the network, particularly in times of unwanted down-time, is a beast. I have two management stations – one [read more...]

I am a big fan of Sony Ericsson phones and I love my K800i especially for its 3MP camera. I noticed on the SE website[1] that there is a tip for reducing the amount of blur that sometimes happens through camera shake – this is through the Image Stabilizer function. For it to work you [read more...]

The support guys came back and answered my concerns about the key tokens. Apparently, the small black stickers are there ‘just in case’ a user accidentally peels one off – typically the black labels are removed during programming. Also, the old adage of RTFM applied to the default PIN numbers on the tokens. Never being [read more...]

I am test running Google Web Accelerator[1], a plug-in for IE that is supposed to speed up my browsing experience. It’s been running for about 15 minutes now and has already saved me a whopping 1.9 seconds … what? … oh well … what was I expecting ? Installation was easy and quick. Essentially I [read more...]

I’m often scouting around trying to find various adaptors for power leads and I’ve often thought it would be useful to have a diagram showing the various power adaptors and their names. Click on the image to see a larger view.

I follow the European Commission[1] guidelines for the definition of an SME based on headcount. SME Stands for Small/Medium Enterprise and includes businesses that are: Small where the headcount is less than 50 employeesMedium where the headcount is less than 250 employees The meaning of ‘Enterprise’ is also defined as ‘any entity engaged in an [read more...]

During support calls I’m often talking users through the difficult process of obtaining their IP address and I used to us the START->RUN->CMD->IPCONFIG /ALL process which returns a lot of information that is often difficult for users to navigate to find the relevant information. I found a simpler, though slightly lengthier, way of getting this [read more...]

Like Monk, I am often trying to find just the right place to put the aerial for my wireless networks, both at home and the office. It seems that no matter where I put them there is either signal trouble or another access point nearby itching to be the primary interface. At home especially the [read more...]