A few weeks ago I bought the new Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n router. I will have to say I am very impressed with the equipment. It has good range, excellent signal propagation, and is rock solid stable.
The only downside I have seen so far is the alternate DNS settings do not work. I like to use Open DNS for my DNS servers and so far the Airport Extreme ignores the settings. The Apple forums say the engineers are aware of the problem and will look into it. We will see.
TTFN
Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Mac's Rule
Those of you who know me know that I have been a Linux geek for years, and have always stayed away from Microsoft and Macintosh computers for industrial grade applications. That has all changed in the last year.
With Apple moving first to a Unix based undercarriage and then the adopting the Intel platform I thought it was time to give Mac a try. I bought a Mac Mini to test the waters. I was very impressed with its ease of operation, stability, and overall good look and feel of the hardware and software.
After 3 months I was hooked. I abandoned my big high end Dell and was using my Mini for all of my work. The only downside was the graphics card did not have enough memory to play Second Life at a level that made the game fun.
So my next purchase was an 20 inch iMac with 2 gig of RAM and 250 meg of VRAM. All I can say is it is sweet. It plays Second Life like a dream, is stable, and fun to use. I have not found one work of research related task that I could not perform on the Mac. I do have Parrelles with a copy of XP loaded and ready in case I do need a Windows app for some reason but I have not needed to use it for any major tasks.
I now own a MacBook Pro which has replaced my 2 year old HP laptop as my primary carry around computer. The poor HP has been moved to the kitchen for TV viewing via Slingbox.
I have been in the IT business for over 26 years and I never in my wildest dreams would have thought I would be using a Mac at home but I am totally sold on them. I plan on selling my big Dell box and moving all of my systems to the Mac platform. I can highly recommend the new Mac for all users no matter what their computing needs.
With Apple moving first to a Unix based undercarriage and then the adopting the Intel platform I thought it was time to give Mac a try. I bought a Mac Mini to test the waters. I was very impressed with its ease of operation, stability, and overall good look and feel of the hardware and software.
After 3 months I was hooked. I abandoned my big high end Dell and was using my Mini for all of my work. The only downside was the graphics card did not have enough memory to play Second Life at a level that made the game fun.
So my next purchase was an 20 inch iMac with 2 gig of RAM and 250 meg of VRAM. All I can say is it is sweet. It plays Second Life like a dream, is stable, and fun to use. I have not found one work of research related task that I could not perform on the Mac. I do have Parrelles with a copy of XP loaded and ready in case I do need a Windows app for some reason but I have not needed to use it for any major tasks.
I now own a MacBook Pro which has replaced my 2 year old HP laptop as my primary carry around computer. The poor HP has been moved to the kitchen for TV viewing via Slingbox.
I have been in the IT business for over 26 years and I never in my wildest dreams would have thought I would be using a Mac at home but I am totally sold on them. I plan on selling my big Dell box and moving all of my systems to the Mac platform. I can highly recommend the new Mac for all users no matter what their computing needs.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Tragedy
It has been a long time but I am back. Unfortunately, it took the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech to bring me back. What a tragic loss. I have always worried about the security on our campus. and this tragedy highlights how insecure our public buildings are if faced with a determined attacker.
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