Display Link have released beta drivers that allow you to use up to 4 USB connected displays on your MacBook Pro.
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
I have never had much luck getting good wireless reception in my house. Until now I have used the wireless access point built in to my ADSL router. I have tried products from Vigor, Linksys and Dlink and reception has always been terrible unless you are working in the same room as the access point. Even in the lounge, one room away from the access point, through a thin partition wall (it used to be all one room) I could only get intermittent reception at best.
So today I gave in and got an Apple Airport Extreme. I should have known that Apple would make yet another great product. First impressions are that I now have a strong, reliable signal throughout the house and what is more it was a pleasure to configure. Compared to the web pages in the Linksys and Vigor products I have tried the Apples Airport Utility is really simple, well designed and as with all Apple stuff it “just works!”
I upgraded my ejabberd server to openfire today. It is really nice. ejabberd was very stable and worked extremely well but really lacked a management interface. Openfire has a fantastic interface that really makes it easy to configure. Even migrating my users across was painless.
Openfire have also announced a beta of their next release. It has an invisibility option. Once there is client support this should allow you to control who can see you presence. This is a feature that I and others have been waiting for.
I have been trying to clone a ubuntu install on parallels using the Parallels clone function. Unfortunately the network interface failed to work with the new MAC address assigned to the virtual interface during cloning. ifconfig didn’t show the interface at all and lshw -C network showed the interface as disabled.
Eventually I found that the mac address is used in the udev rule that creates the network device. Changing the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to have the correct mac address fixed things.