May 16 2007

Foreigner’s view on internet access in NZ

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I was reading Jon Udell’s latest post this morning who is was in NZ on a speaking engagement as keynote speaker at the Govis conference. He praises the beautiful scenery here, especially the drive down the West Coast from Picton to Greymouth, then crossing Arthurs Pass to Christchurch, which Deb and I did a few […]

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May 11 2007

Home office improvements

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Since moving into the contracting/self-employed market, I’ve splashed out a bit on my home office setup. First I bought an HP Advanced Docking Station for my nx8220 notebook which provides full connectivity for audio, gigabit networking, DVI connector, plus a bunch of extra USB ports. Then I invested in a new monitor to upgrade my […]

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Mar 03 2006

Enable WPA2 in Windows XP SP2

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In a previous post I mentioned that I setup WPA2 wireless security on my Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I didn’t mention though that you need Windows XP SP2 and an update from the Microsoft Support site to get it working from the client-side. The update and related article can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893357

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