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HDMI cables – dissipating the common myth

Posted by Eddie on January 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the current de-facto connectivity for most AV equipment.  In the old days, when we were still using analog component or coaxial cables, manufacturers came up with various ways to improve the cables. In the more expensive cables, you will find gold plated connectors, or EM/RF shielding on the cabling. Coupled [...]

TP-Link TD-W8960N DNS problems with multiple wireless clients

Posted by Eddie on February 2, 2010 at 11:10 pm

I’ve recently just upgraded to the TP-Link TD-W8960N Wireless-N ADSL Gateway from my 2Wire 2700HGV-E Mio Box. When i first installed it, performance was good. The startup time was quick from first power on, taking only <60 secs to enable the wireless radio and establish DSL connection. Gone are also the random DSL line disconnection [...]

Setting restricted login hours for Windows XP accounts

Posted by Eddie on October 6, 2009 at 7:49 pm

Windows natively has the NET USER command to perform a number of account related operations. For example, in order to effectively restrict access to your PC for a particular account based on timings, you can make use of NET USER command with the following syntax

Excerpt from Microsoft KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251394
/times:{times | all}
Is the logon hours. [...]

iPhone 3G vs iPhone 3GS

Posted by Eddie on June 12, 2009 at 12:22 am

With the annoucement of the iPhone 3GS, many of us wonder what changes the new iPhone brings us. Apple released the new iPhone mainly to address one issue: performance, hence the “S” connotation for Speed. Apple claims that the new iPhone 3GS would be up to 2X faster than the iPhone3G. Physically, you can’t tell [...]

Configuring Virtual Hosting using Apache2 on SLES 10

Posted by Eddie on June 8, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Originally from: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/19856.html

In this guide I tried to explain how to implement Virtual Hosting using Apache2 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. This guide is ESPECIALLY written for those WEB-ADMINS who are used to configuring Virtual Hosting on Redhat Enterprise Linux(RHEL 3/4). Since on a rhel Server, apache is configured using a single file i.e /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, i.e all of the virtual hosting configurations goes in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf ONLY, while in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, we don’t edit the httpd.conf for virtual hosting.