Technology related solutions, tips, tricks, and other interesting topics
In: General IT Info
24 Feb 2008Time Warner Cable provides Ambit cable modems to their cable internet subscribers. You can get to the web-based interface by loading up the URL http://192.168.100.1 on a computer connected to your home network. If that doesn’t work, you may need to view that URL from a computer with the IP address 192.168.100.20. The default username/password [...]
In: General IT Info
24 Feb 2008When you install the VMware tools in a FreeBSD 6.0 guest OS in VMware Server Beta, you get the following error message in the console every few seconds: calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pid 13924 FIX 1: sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC FIX 2: Add the following line to /boot/loader.conf kern.hz=200
In: Apple
19 Feb 2008It looks like Apple has decided to discontinue its XServe RAID product. When you go to the XServer storage page, there is no sign of the Apple branded XServe RAID product. All that is shown is a RAID hardware product manufactured by Promise Technology. The XServe RAID had a lot of faults so I guess [...]
In: Ramblings
8 Feb 2008I regularly search the internet for solutions to problems and one of the things that really irritates me is people who give totally unhelpful and often times rude answers to people’s requests for help. Sure sometimes you come across a thread where someone asks a really “dumb” question but that doesn’t mean you should berate [...]
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.