Posts Tagged ‘network’
An enterprise Ultrabook
I’ve recently had a couple of laptops on loan that have got me thinking about what the perfect enterprise laptop might feature. Business – Lenovo X220 I was loaned this to try out a super secret new security product. Regular readers here will know that I have a fondness for Lenovo laptops, and this is […]
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Tags: business, consumer, corporate, displayport, docking, dual screen, enterprise, laptop, network, smartcard, Thunderbolt, ultrabook, Wide Eye, WiDi
Nanode thermometer
I first heard about Nanode (a low cost board that brings together Arduino and ethernet) via Andy Piper, then a few days later I had the fortune of seeing its creator Ken Boak speak at London’s Open Source Hardware Users Group (OSHUG). The week afterwards Ken was at the excellent Monkigras event, and did a short […]
Filed under: Arduino, code | 2 Comments
Tags: arduino, Nanode, network, sensor, temperature, thermometer, web
I run a bunch of Linux (mostly Ubuntu) VMs on my main machine at home, which happens to be a laptop. I use VirtualBox, but what I have to say here is probably applicable to most host based virtualisation environments. My requirements are pretty simple: The VMs need to be able to access the Internet […]
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Tags: bridged, eth0, eth1, host only, howto, internal, Linux, NAT, network, networking, Putty, SSH, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, virtualisation, virtualization
It seems that our politicians are easily fooled by the telecos and their regulatory capture. Just yesterday the UK’s Culture minister Ed Vaizey announced his support for a ‘two-speed‘ internet. The idea is superficially attractive – content providers pay a premium to have their stuff delivered faster, and the consumer benefits from improved service. It’s like […]
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Tags: broadband, net neutrality, network, neutrality, telco
The arrival of my EFM connection meant that I needed to find some way of balancing load (and failing over) between the new EFM and the existing ADSL. Thankfully there’s a healthy market in low end load balancers, and after digging through some reviews I went for the DrayTek Vigor 2820n. ADSL The device is […]
Filed under: review, technology | 6 Comments
Tags: 2820, 2820n, 2930, adsl, DrayTek, efm, firewall, IPSEC, L2TP, load balancer, network, networking, PPTP, router, sip, Vigor, voip, vpn, wifi
My firm moved offices a little while ago, and one of the things I was looking forward to was a much better Internet pipe than we had in our old place (which seemed like a domestic ADSL shared across 100+ people). Part of the plan was a fully VOIP telephone system, something that I’ll return […]
Filed under: technology | 14 Comments
Tags: broadband, efm, ethernet, ethernet first mile, network, telco, wimax
Excessive network?
Yesterday the kids got a hand me down TV from their grandparents, which caused me to do a bit of reconfiguration of things in their play room. The HomePlug adaptor in the garage had died a few weeks back, so I’d swapped it for the one connected to their little used X-Box 360. Anyway, to […]
Filed under: technology | 3 Comments
Tags: adsl, HomePlug, network, router, switch
The network isn’t ubiquitous
and probably never will be. My brother has been moving house this week, which has caused him to spend a certain amount of time off net, and to get very angry with BT (though it all got sorted out in the end [1]). Sadly my suggestion to get a Vodafone 3G dongle doesn’t seem to […]
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Tags: 3G, BT, economics, network, network fallacies, telco, three strikes, wifi
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