Phone Company Merger Map
The attached graphic gives a good idea of how the breakup of AT&T has effectively been reversed in the past thirty years.
Quite interesting considering the recent news of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.
Phone Company Merger Map
How To: Fix iPad loosing wireless network
How To: Fix iPad loosing wireless network
One of the issues being reported with the Apple iPad is that it looses it’s wireless network connection and then has a very hard time reconnecting.
I ran across this bug in the field where I had 6 iPads scattered around a football field, and two (or more) Apple Airport Extremes connected in WDS mode. The issue seems to popup usually when there are either a large number of people in between the Airport Base Station and the iPad, OR when the iPad was too far from one or the other Airports. Weirdly, the Wireless Connection icon in the upper left hand of the screen would have full bars, but still couldn’t get to any network devices or to the Internet.
From the iPad’s main screen, choose “Settings” then tap “Wi-Fi” locations. Choose the default Wireless Network, then tap the right arrow. Scroll down to “HTTP Proxy” and then tap on “Manual.” Back out of these screens and test the wireless out. If it still fails, go back and choose “Auto” instead of “Manual.” Note that there is no need to enter any information in the “Server,” “Port,” or “Authentication” fields. Unless your specific wireless network needs those.
This is reported to also work with iPods and possibly iPhones so the problem seems to be in IOS itself, and not with the hardware. Hopefully a future update will fix this issue.
Other Suggestions:
-Update Firmware on Wireless Access Point
-Turn off the 802.11n mode
-Temporarily disable security measures. If this seems to solve, set router to WPA2
-Disable 40mhz or 20mhz under 802.11n settings – especially in crowded wireless environments
-Set the iPad to get a static IP (only reported to work in one case, so very low on the list)
-Apple’s KB has a few other suggestions: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398
Imperial Guard Leman Russ
Imperial Guard Leman Russ
This is the first Leman Russ tank I actually built totally myself. It was meant to be the heavy support option for a Squad of Rouge Trader Era Commissar Cadets.
Toliet Paper Design
Taken one day at work. I couldn’t resist as the contrast in colors and the simplicity was very interesting to me.
How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac
How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac
One of the biggest pains in deploying MS Office to OS X in a business or education environment is making sure that the serial number deploys too.
To do this, you need to also deploy the following files:
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist
Deploying these files will keep also keep the initial setup assistant from running upon first launch.
Deployment can be via any of your normal methods, Apple Remote Desktop being the “Apple Preferred Way,” of course.