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Continue reading →: Data Update Kerio, Exchange and Asterisk
Well, spent some time getting Kerio running on my MacBook. It is amazing how small a mail application is. Just 50MB. * Loading Kerio is pretty easy and then you have to figure the firewall issue. * I used Dyndns.com to let me direct a DNS name to my laptop…
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Continue reading →: Cool Math Testing Website
FreeRice Cool Site for donating rice to hungry people by answering vocabulary word questions.
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Continue reading →: Data in the 21st Century
Well, how about handling data traffic in a modern small business. In our shop eight years ago, we ended up quite conventional. We have: * a 100Mbps Ethernet and a 802.11b/g 2.4GHz Wifi access point outside the firewall. * In house, we an bunch of rack mounted servers. We’ve got…
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Continue reading →: Business Phones in the 21st Century
Now that we are trying to setup our Seattle suboffice, we have a chance to do things a bit different. In our original office setup 8 years ago, we went safe. We have: * An inhouse PBX called Intersat or something like that and have T-1s that connect to it…
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Continue reading →: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men to nothing
A wonderful quote from “Edmund Burke”:http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evil
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Continue reading →: Downtown Seattle Restaurants
Ok with the new sub office, getting to restaurants is way more fun than a chicken wrap at the Bellevue Club. Here are some restaurants we’ve been to and some others to try: # Place Pigalle, it seems a long way, but it is just a few blocks to Pioneer…
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Continue reading →: Comparing Apple AirPort Express and Apple Time Capsule
“CNet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/wireless-access-points/apple-airport-express-base/4505-3265_7-32902549.html did a good comparison of the AirPort Express and the Apple Time Capsule. Net, net, the AirPort Express is a good travel router and is lower capacity than the Time Capsule. It is really for smaller networks (10 clients maximum), slower (no gigabit ethernet and no wide channel 802.11n)…
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Continue reading →: Airport and Time Capsule remote logging
I don’t completely understand how logging works, but it is very Unix-like, every application can create its own text-based .log file. Unlike Windows which has a complicated event viewer system and a separate application to look at records. There is /Applications/Utility/Console which gives you one place to look at everything.…
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Continue reading →: USB 2.0 vs. ExpressCard
The MacBook Pro’s have this strange slot called the ExpressCard 34. This is a narrow card than the PC Card or PCIMCIA card and I’ve never really had a use for it since “USB 2.0”:http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htm is 480Mbps so plenty fast considering most IDE hard disks only run at about that…
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Continue reading →: Rich’s Top 10 Songs This Week
So what am I listening to these days…sometimes it is just a few songs over and over. So check them out…Thanks to “Nutsie”:http://nutsie.com, you can easily hook into the music videos of the songs you like. And with YouTube, folks are making “music videos” out of almost everything…So here is…
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