I’ve just picked up an PAYG mobile broadband package from O2 with a HUAWEI Mobile Connect E160 USB stick. Expecting an effortless install I inserted the USB stick, ran the setup and got to the O2 Connection Manager menu, but the cellular network connection ‘O2-UK’ was missing. This was even after running “Install the USB [...]
Tagged huawei e160, mobile broadband, o2, windows 7A few clients I’ve worked with in the past are Microsoft-centric having Server 2003 based dedicated servers but want to be able to host Wordpress blogs. Luckily it’s relatively straightforward to get a Wordpress blog up and running on IIS by the following steps.
This is written for Server 2003 (running IIS 6.0) and I’m using [...]
I recently created a perl script (lets call it 1.) to process a network trace and compute the number of bytes received for a given protocol (e.g. udp, tcp or routing protocols such as AODV, DSR) for a given time interval for each node in the trace. The output of this is a comma seperated [...]
Tagged child scripts, perl, redirect stdoutI’ve been a big fan of SyncToy since it’s first release as a way to maintain backups of my important documents across several hard disks and my NAS as it’s very easy to use, and with the latest release (v2.1) performance has been boosted significantly. I’ve got multiple rules set up so I can just [...]
Tagged backup, dropbox, synctoyI’ve recently been looking into virtualisation methods within Linux to find an optimal way of creating a network testbed of virtual machines. The machines are relatively high powered for this task (AMD Athlon 64 3700+ with 2GB RAM) and are more than able to run more than one Linux instance. The only real limitation I can [...]
Tagged domU, linux, ubuntu, virtualisation, xenI wanted to see if there was a Java equivalent of .NET’s MessageBox class. Turns out there is but it’s a little more hidden away as a static method on JOptionPane, so I’ve pasted the code here for referring to it in the future:
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,”message”,”title”));
This creates and shows a message dialog with no parent with message [...]
iHackintosh has a great article showing how you can get Snow Leopard (the latest and greatest from Apple) running as a Virtual Machine under Windows by using VMWare Workstation, a custom disk image and a retail copy of Snow Leopard.
Turns out you can also follow the same steps in that tutorial using the latest version [...]
