Time machine backup onto network share.

The majority of us don’t backup on a regular basis. It usually isn’t until we lose a bunch of critical data that the light bulb turns on and we start backing up for maybe a week or two and then we stop. Apple’s new Leopard operating system contains Time Machine to fix that problem. Time [...]

Macbook pro - Airport problems connectiing to network and dhcp

Recently I have been having a lot of issues with my macbook pro and connecting to my home network, Airport on mac osx would seem to be connecting to find to the network, but the computer would never get an address from the dhcp server on the network, and manually setting the ip address would [...]

Macbook pro - Connecting to Cisco consoles

I have a macbook pro and sometimes I need to connect to the console port on some of the cisco networks I do work on.
Today I went out and bought a USB to Serial converter from maplin, the driver disk that comes with the product is one of the small CDs which would get stuck [...]