ashleyknowles

  • Mac OS X Gaming Part II

    In my last post about MacOSX gaming, I mentioned I like to play Counter Strike / Left 4 Dead, and how I attempted to run it via Parallels virtually etc etc etc. Well, yesterday, Valve announced some AWESOME news for us Mac owners… I can’t wait to try this out 🙂 Valve announced today it…

  • Mac OS X Speedup Bits

    I decided my Mac was running a bit slower, something I would usually refer to as the “Windows downhill effect”. Turns out Mac OS X has it too! Albeit slightly less intrusive… As usual, Google delivered. I tested out a bunch of apps, and heck, even purchased my first piece of shareware, EVER. Amongst the…

  • Mac OS X Gaming

    Having bought a Mac, I sort of stopped playing Counter Strike, in the absence of a mouse etc. I managed to have a crack at TOCA Race Driver 3, which is still by far one of my favorite games (second only to Gran Turismo, for those at home playing along on a PlayStation). I am…

  • Macintosh Performance Guide: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Booting the 64-bit Kernel

    I was stunned the other day when I was looking through my system info on my Snow Leopard equipped Mac Book Pro to find it was running in 32bit mode…. Turns out you have to manually configure it to run in 64bit every single time you boot up (as seen further below), or by holding…

  • PHP Templating

    I’ve always wanted to create a CMS system using PHP. I currently have an opportunity through my work to develop a custom form webapp for one of our clients, which I’ve been working on non-stop for the past day or so. I’ve got no idea how anyone else does templating, but I’ve devised my own…

  • Outlook 2010 + Social Networks

    I thought this was super massive awesome cool plus plus!!!!!1111oneoneone I just installed the Office 2010 beta, and jumped in to my email quickly to grab a call. When I went to reply to an email, I noticed a little bar, similar to the “security” bar you get at the top of Internet Explorer, at…

  • First iPhone “Virus”

    Interesting. Only affects jailbroken iPhones. I’m curious to see *how* it does this, but I’m taking an educated guess that the virus scans for iPhone’s with SSHD running, and then attempts to logon with the default username / password (which is root/alpine by the way), and then has it’s way with the victim’s iPhone. Clever,…

  • INB352 Network Planning links

    These are just for my study reference for a network design / planning subject I’m doing at Uni. Routing Protocol Selection Testking CCSP 642-515 Exam Questions Network Planning and Design Guide Introduction to WAN Architectures – very handy reference…

  • Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

    I like to think I’m pretty good with the MacOS now, but let’s face it, there’s still a whole bunch of little things I’m still learning… Take for example, how to boot up a CDROM or USB drive… Turns out, a guy named Dan Rodney has compiled a list of frequently used keyboard shortcuts for…

  • Remote KVM Cards & Modular Servers

    I had to install a PCI remote KVM card into a client’s server this afternoon. Oh how difficult that was!!! So, servers these days, are 99% of the time modular in every single way… The problem I’m getting to here, is that, you no longer have separate cables for your power, reset, HDD, etc etc…