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• Finally Back Online!

  The day we drive half-way across the country is the day my system decides to stop working. While driving home for the holidays a friend let me know the site was down and from my fiance's iPhone I was able to determine the whole system had lost connection... Posted Dec 27 2008, 05:54 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, Software, Network, Firewall, Bunker Hollow, Power

• The Camcorder AV Cable, Who Knew?!

  It's not often that an older piece of technology blows my mind, but it happened this week and I'm still reeling with disbelief. I had no idea this cable existed until a couple of days ago! It's simple enough; a triple-band 3.5mm (headphone... Posted Dec 15 2008, 07:21 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, Media, Video, Cable, Zune, Audio

• Networking by Example - A Remote Desktop Tutorial

  This is my attempt to write the document that I wish I had found while I was implementing this stuff for the first time a few years ago. Personally, I learn by example. I enjoy learning something new by researching it, but I feel I'm only confident... Posted Oct 21 2008, 09:54 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Hardware, Software, Networking, Remote, Firewall, RDP, Desktop, Router

• Bad Memory Horror Story

  I managed to salvage the travestry that was last night, but it was a really close call. Too close for comfort. Here's the story from the top... We got new BlackBerries at work, the BlackBerry Curve 8310. They're hooked up to our Exchange servers... Posted May 31 2008, 09:34 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, Horror

• Docking Thinkpad Notebooks

  We use a bunch of the new T series notebooks (60, 60p, 61) around the office and we have all encountered tempermental issues when docking/undocking them using the advanced mini-dock. Many of the guys I work with are particularly irritated with this issue... Posted Mar 06 2008, 12:17 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, Thinkpad, Docking Station

• Thinkpad T61p has been ordered!

  I'm pretty excited to put this thing through it's paces once it arrives. I know it'll smoke all of my machines, but I wonder how it'll match up against Ramsay's desktop . We'll have to do some tests and find out! Here are the specs... Posted Feb 20 2008, 10:08 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, Thinkpad, T61p, IBM, Lenovo

• So I Gave Overclocking a Try

  After fiddling around with my desktop machine so much these last two days, I decided to try my hand at overclocking. I've got: ECS Intel P4M800PRO-M v2.0 Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2ghz Processor 2GB (2 x 1GB sticks) DDR2 533Mhz RAM I just... Posted Feb 09 2008, 05:59 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, Overclocking

• A whole bunch of Vista USB driver problems

  My Vista Ultimate x64 box just doesn't get along with my USB hardware. I don't know if the problem is the motherboard, my PCI USB expansion board, my internal USB card reader, my usb flash drives or what. But I do know it started with the flash... Posted Jan 07 2008, 10:14 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Vista, Drivers, Hardware, USB

• What is wrong with my computer?!

  My computer has been rebooting randomly. I can never catch it in the act, but every couple of days it will reboot. I thought updating my BIOS would help, but it hasn't. Last night I heard it reboot so I took these screenshots first thing in the morning... Posted Dec 19 2007, 06:48 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Hardware, Computer, Unexpected Shutdown, Crash, Blue Screen, BSOD

• Home Network Pictures

  I've posted pictures of my home network in the photos section. I've wanted to create my own network like this for a very long time, and I'm happy to say it's finished for the present time. I wouldn't dare say it's done because... Posted Dec 06 2007, 09:14 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, Home, Network, Bunker Hollow, Pictures

• VMWare Server x64 Only Works With Some Intel 64-bit Processors!

  I got burned on this one, bad. Earlier this week I decided to build a new machine with the memory, hard drive, and video card I had laying around. I wanted a 64-bit server on my DMZ to host my webserver (x86) and my Exchange Edge Transport Server (x64... Posted Nov 11 2007, 02:24 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Server, 64, bit, VMWare, Hardware, Processor, x64, Intel, ECS

• pfSense NAT Configuration for Xbox 360 Live

  To change your Xbox NAT setting from STRICT to OPEN from behind a pfSense firewall (1.2 RC 2) follow these steps: Assign a static IP to your Xbox. Assign an alias to your Xbox using that static IP (I called mine XBOX360). NAT Port Forward these ports... Posted Nov 06 2007, 03:28 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Hardware, 360, Live, Xbox, Firewall, pfSense, NAT, Configuration, Settings

• My Home Network Media Center Solution

  It's been a long, fairly expensive, time consuming and sometimes frustrating journey; but my quest to share my media throughout the house has finally come to an end. I'm going to layout my setup in this article but first I'd like to do some... Posted Nov 01 2007, 08:30 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Hardware, Software, Home, 360, Xbox, Media, TVersity, Center, Network

• Ramsay's Monster PC Build

  There was some sweet pc building happening down in Kentucky this weekend. We put this machine together to server as his all-in-one pc in the living room. The following are the specs, all hooked up to a 50inch rear-projection TV. NZXT LEXA-NP Black Case... Posted Oct 30 2007, 01:27 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Machine, Hardware, PC, Computer, Build, Ramsay

• TVersity Media Server Installation

  It's been about 4 days since I installed TVersity Media Server and I've finally got it running exactly the way I want it. I knew this whole business might be a little tricky, so I made a disk image of my server before installing anything. I'm... Posted Oct 21 2007, 12:02 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Server, Hardware, Software, 360, Xbox, Media, TVersity