Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Lifehacker

Much of the content on LifeHacker is nonsense.

A fake Hackintosh on Lifehacker

A lot of my exposure to Lifehacker was with respect to the configuration of a Hackintosh



Enabling Passthrough on DVD Drive - VirtualBox

So that the internal (or External USB) drive can be "seen" by the VM (Virtual Machine)

The screen-shot below shows the setting that you can use on VirtualBox to allow the internal DVD drive to  be seen by DVD43. An external DVD drive can be used on both VirtualBox and Windows 7 XP-Mode without having to use "Passthrough"


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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

email to Canon

Thank you for writing to us. We value you as a Canon customer and
appreciate the opportunity to assist you.

Detailed information as to which Canon cameras are compatible and what
properties have been added or modified to the SDK are available by
clicking:


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I hope this information is helpful to you. Please let us know if we can
be of any further assistance with your future purchase.

If you follow the link and agree to the License Agreement - you should see that the box is blank

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Monday, April 11, 2011

Canon EOS Digital SDK (EDSDK) v2.10

I have downloaded all the Canon SDK's as they have been released.

I have backed up the CDs as .iso images and they are stored on my intranet. 

EDSDK Canon and Apple  ios

I am not sure if there is any support for IOS operating systems. The SDK's are generally aimed at a Windows based development environment.

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Using a wireless router as a wireless access point and Ethernet switch

Linksys et-al don't do a very good job when it comes to explaining what the difference between a router and  an access point, what each does and when they should be used.

A router contains a DHCP server - an access point doesn't. If you understand this you will now how and when to use both and now, how to use a router as an access point. Due to mass marketing a router is generally cheaper although it performs fewer functions.

The procedure:

Basically just turn off  DHCP  and connect the 2nd router, now an access point, using one of the Ethernet ports. i.e. do not connect to the other router using the WAN port.

The DHCP function will be provided by the first router and you will now have two hotpots and the IP addresses will be assigned by the first router. You should be able to connect to the Internet using either of the hotspots and you can set the security for each of the wireless hotspots independently.

Additional findings:

I also found that a Brother wireless printer that I originally configured on my original router was far easier to get working by connecting it to my new Cisco Gateway. I also found that you can print to the wireless printer regardless of what hotspot you are connected to.


Above you can see that I am connected to the Rogers Cisco Gateway and that I have another hotspot with the SSID of HuW. I also have a VPN running but this is nothing to do with this explanation.