Archive for March, 2007

Daylight Saving Time Troubles With Windows XP

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Daylight Saving Time has been rescheduled this year from first Sunday in April to an earlier time… yesterday. If your computer did not automatically change the time yesterday then you may not be at the current update patch level. If you use Windows XP with SP2 and have all the current updates installed, […]

Turn a Wireless Router Into Much More with Linux

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Linux Netfilter has made it possible for people to turn outdated computers into high performance network routers and firewalls. When a PCI WiFi card is added, it also becomes a wireless access point. Yet those old computers are still relatively large, noisy, and consume a lot of power, and the components may not […]