Category: Computer
Secure your wireless router
I have moved about a fair bit while being a student, and wherever I live, I can usually pick up a handful of unsecured wireless networks. This is obviously a bad idea, as anyone nearby can then use your internet, for whatever nefarious purposes they wish. It is really, really easy to set the security […]
Workplace Ideas
Some companies are making moves to change the format of work in context of everyone’s lives. There may as well be no set times to work and play in some jobs. In IT and web design, much of what we do at home is “work”… and we do a lot of personal stuff at work. […]
Apple iMac networking hassle
We have just got an old iMac 400 in at work to test our websites out on Safari. It has shown up a few pretty serious problems that we would have been unaware of if we hadn’t tested on the mac. However, getting the damn thing on the network has proven to be a pain. […]
Belkin F5D7050 nightmare
Just set my new Windows XP SP2 PC up with a network card and then tried to install a Belkin F5D7050 wireless USB adapter. It wouldn’t install, complaining first of a “code 10” error, then a “code 28” error. After much reinstalling, Googling, registry hacking and other such nonsense, the fix described at http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=823771 sorted […]