February 2010

07 Feb 2010

Airport Extreme 802.11n: Please. Don't Stop.

By jmccabe
technical: 
Apple
AppleTalk
Airport Extreme

I am using an 2008 vintage Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n as part of my home network. This device is running Apple's 7.4.2 firmware, is providing draft 802.11n WiFi access, and is acting as a file server for a HFS+ formatted disk. There are up to three computers that will, as needed, auto-mount this disk via AFP (AppleTalk) to save or use files.

21 Feb 2010

Virtually Real

By jmccabe
technical: 
Linux
virtual machine
virtualbox
vmware

I recently needed to pull a retired hard drive from an old, no longer working box. This HD contained an ancient copy of Red Hat 9 that had been continually patched since Red Hat 6 in order to support an ancient build of Netscape's Directory Server and Messaging Server products.