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I’ve recently working in an environment where only a wireless network connection was available, however; 2 of my 3 machines did not support wireless internet. After dealing with not having those machines offline for a while, I finally decided to do something about it.

Materials:

1 Cat5 cross-over cable

1 Windows XP machine with wireless and ethernet capabilities

1 Router (I used my LinkSys WRT54G)

Procedure:

1. Connect to the wireless network with your Windows XP machine

2. Open the network properties for that interface (Control Panel -> Network Connections -> (right click) Properties for the device)

3. Open the advanced tab and enable “Allow other users to connect through this computer’s internet connect”

4. Connect the cross-over cable to both the Windows XP machine’s NIC and the uplink on the router

5. Renew the router’s DHCP

At this point you should be able to plug into the router and use the internet as normal. If this setup doesn’t work, you may need to open the properties dialog for your Local Area Network connection and set it to use the wireless adapter as it’s internet source.

In the wake of so many ISP’s getting away with murder and the government looking the other direction it’s good to see that Florida is stepping in and fining Version for poor response time. http://news.cnet.com/Florida-…00-1036_3-6239655.html?tag=html.alert.hed

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Panda security has now launched thier Security as a Service for businesses. Among other services they will be offering: outsourcing of infrastructure, automated updates and patching, compliance checks, risk management, and remote management tools. http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-software/20080519/LAM04119052008-1.html

I read this post on a friend of mine’s blog and thought it was rather useful. I’ve had PHP scripts running on cron before that had exactly this problem. They would lock up after a while and before I knew it, I had about 15 “undead” PHP processes just eating up my CPU. What was worse was that my shared host only allowed each user 15 processes at the same time, so slowly but surely the rest of my sites would go down. http://www.toosweettobesour.com/2008/05/21/amp-and-runaway-scripts/