TooMuchGreen

As has been the case with me over the past two years I’m once again in a rented apartment at the mercy of someone else’s Wi-Fi with no resulting control or access to the router. It’s all somewhat limiting should I wish to dabble in any external DynDNS malarkey (which I do) but I get by SSH-ing around the LAN to the wondrous little Dell Mini 9″ and it’s certainly a notch up from running a virtual machine on the MacBook Air, in fact it’s actually a most useful set up and a really don’t know how I ever managed before.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:42 mins)

Due to the lack of an OSX version for the (apparently) swish and whizzy new browser from Google (Google ‘Chrome’) I thought I’d give the multi processing session concept a tryout for myself by installing the beta of Stainless on to the MacBook Air.

Stainless started out merely as a technology demo for Mesa Dynamics however due to it’s rapidly growing fan base and corresponding list of evolving features it’s continuing on toward a fully fledged release (V1.0). The present version (0.6) is still only at beta development stages however it’s already offering some nice touches above and beyond Chrome itself, to quote from the site -  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:00 mins)

So then, IP addressing.

I discovered a *supposed* web facing router the other day which was allocated a 10.***.****.**** address, as the above table shows this is one of three schemas allocated for private network use only. If you check your home computers IP I’ll wager a pound to a penny it’ll start with 192 (if not you’re flying without a safety net….go and buy a NAT router immediately), and I did say HOME computer by the way, business networks of any size invariably run on the 10.***.***.*** schema which, as shown, offers huge flexibility with over 16 million separate IP addresses.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:19 mins)