Hardware Archive

  • Complete Hyper-V based lab on your laptop part 1

    Complete Hyper-V based lab on your laptop part 1

    All the stars have aligned to make it relatively easy to have an enterprise level lab on a single machine. In this two-part article I will explain how to set up a full Hyper-V based windows domain test enviroment. The Hardware For a long time hardware has…
  • Google’s Android 2.2 Froyo adds USB tethering and Wifi Hotspot

    Google’s Android 2.2 Froyo adds USB tethering and Wifi Hotspot

    According to TechCrunch, Google’s newest update to the Android OS, Froyo, will add USB Tethering and the ability to turn your phone into a wifi hotspot. Andriod police are also reporting the Froyo will include a 450% performance boost compared to version 2.1 running on…
  • Basic Cisco ASA configuration

    Basic Cisco ASA configuration

    A few days ago we had a need for a router, we did not have one handy, but we did have a Cisco ASA 5505. While I’ve configured my fair share of routers, I never had the need to configure a PIX or ASA. It…
  • Apple 4.0 iPhone OS to enable multitasking

    Apple 4.0 iPhone OS to enable multitasking

    Apple insider is reporting that Apple is planning to include the ability to multitask, when it launches the fourth major revision to the iPhone Operating System. If these rumors are in fact true, we can also expect this feature to appear in future versions of…
  • Will Apple’s new iPad succeed???

    Will Apple’s new iPad succeed???

    Yesterday Apple unveiled it’s highly anticipated tablet computer, the Apple iPad. I have to say, I am a little disappointed in Apple this time. With all the hype they had created and all the speculation and buzz leading up to the unveiling, Steve Jobs failed…
  • Communication Stalled on Backup Exec 12

    Communication Stalled on Backup Exec 12

    For over the past four months I’ve been struggling with backup exec throwing out a communication stalled error every now and then. Usually I would come to work in the morning and the backup exec services would be stopped. The only way around this was to…