Technically, you can run two 10/100 network lines, with a standard cat 5 cable. Â That is because a 10/100 network line only uses 4 of the 8 wires inside a cat 5 line. I do not recommend this though. Â Doing so, prevents you from uses 1 Gbs networking, and/or Power over Ethernet. If you do […]
Well, in this post, Monitor Interlacing? What’s the refresh rate, kenneth? I attempted to address the concept of a Monitor\’s refresh rate…  But I noticed an odd search request: How Does Reaction time related to Vertical refresh rate For those that missed the earlier post, a Monitor\’s refresh rate is a measurement of of the number […]
The iPhone is a fully fledged computer in it\’s right, but how does it compare against \”real\” computers? The Key components in the original iPhone are: ARM1176JZF with TrustZone, with a clock at perhaps 600 MHz ARM Intelligent Energy Manager 16-kbyte/16-kbyte code/data cache Vector floating point coprocessor ARM Jazelle-enabled for embedded-Java execution SIMD high performance […]
What does Twitter have against Star Wars? We\’re not quite sure. But a list maintained by the social networking site of passwords you\’re not allowed to use features that movie title plus many other familiar sci-fi words and phrases. The taboo terms include: batman gandalf matrix ncc1701 startrek starwars superman thx1138 In addition to the banned […]
First, the brick & mortar Apple Stores will offer to migrate your data for free, if the new system is purchased from them, the main hassel is the wait, and bringing in the old system. Alternatively, on the new system, as soon as it is booted will offer to migrate the old computers data. All […]
Question: I was using Disk Utility to do a \”Verify Permission\” and I got the following message: Warning: SUID file \”System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent\” has been modified and will not be repaired. It\’s a known issue, and actually a bogus message. It has been around since Mac OS X 10.5, and while it has changed for Mac OS […]
In Apple Remote Desktop 3.3, Apple changed the behavior of key commands during screen sharing. In this knowledge-base article, one of the listed \”improvements\” is this: When controlling a remote client, function keys and key combinations for actions such as Force Quit, Log Out, and the Application Switcher are now all sent to the remote […]
Take this quote from Macworld: When we connected the MacBook Pro to a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive and copied a 1GB file to it from the internal hard drive, we found that it took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0. Duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on […]