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Technical bleg: simple video chat over a LAN (Mac/Win mix)?
My systems are all Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. One of my desktops has a Logitech webcam on it. My wife’s systems are all Mac OS X. Her MacPro tower has a webcam on it. We’re on the same LAN, but we’re two floors apart. Is there a simple way to set up video chat within […]
Speaking of upgrades… [UPDATED]
One of my three desktop systems — a slim Gateway tower (SX2802-01) I’ve had for about two years — notified me last week that the hard disk (a Seagate Barracuda 7200, 750 GB) was failing. I googled the Windows system message, and what I found indicated the hard drive was indeed on its way to […]
Almost persuaded to drop DirecTV [updated]
I love it when technology converges. The first key step was buying a Windows Home Server box last summer. It took me a while to get all the kinks out (read my review at the link), but since then it was worked pretty much trouble-free, 24/7. Not only do my various computers get backed up […]
Thumps and reboots redux
As I mentioned in my previous two posts (here and here), I ran into a bunch of networking problems during a recent extended business trip to a client site. One of the problems I mentioned was that I had brought along a Gateway desktop box so as to be able to use files and applications […]
More thumps and reboots
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I was recently on a business trip where my HP laptop was largely unusable with the hotel’s internet system. Whether I was using wired or wireless connections, I was getting multiple blue screens of death (BSODs). So I dug out my Sprint U301 mobile broadband device (a 3G/4G USB […]