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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 to the internet. My website, email, FTP, and...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-27-2008
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) jack at one end and 3 composite (red, white, yellow...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-15-2008
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 that I truly know it once I've done it myself...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-21-2008
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 at work but I wanted to put my Exchange server...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 05-31-2008
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 because it's only happening with the new models...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 03-06-2008
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 to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 02-20-2008
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 have the standard cooling unit that came with a...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 02-09-2008
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 drives. It seemed like any type of flash drive ...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 01-07-2008
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: Right after signing in I get the unexpected...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-19-2007
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 I don't think it ever will be. The most important...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-06-2007

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