It’s two months since I got the first introduction to Windows 7 (code named Vienna) at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 in Barcelona, and this week Microsoft released a public beta of their next client operating system. I have installed it on my MacBook Pro, and plan to install it on an office machine in AD and on my home machine. I have been using Windows Vista for about 3 years now, through some of the betas and later with the released product. At the department where I am the sysadmin, more […] Continue reading →
Today the first student with an iPhone came to my office. He had been sent to me from the student helpdesk, as they couldn’t help him with getting the iPhone online on our wireless network. The student bought the iPhone for 3000 NOK on eBay, and has not upgraded it. It was hacked to run on one of the Norwegian carriers. First a few positive words about the iPhone, this was the first time I could sit down and play with the iPhone for more then a few minutes. The graphical user […] Continue reading →
I have just bought Apple TV 40 GB (previously known as the “iTV”) as a replacement for Apple Express, and spent most of the weekend to rip my CD collection (320 Kbps) and synced it over to the Apple TV, and then packed down all the CDs in plastic boxes and put the CD player in the bottom of a locker. They are not to go back up on the shelf! […] Continue reading →
Just the other day I discovered that my university, University of Oslo, had joined Eduroam. Eduroam stands for Education Roaming, and is a RADIUS-based infrastructure that uses 802.1X security technology to allow for inter-institutional roaming. Universities around the world have set WIFI equipment for students/scientific staff can access the Internet from pretty much anywhere on the campus. The networks are most oftenly not open, and that is the case at our university also. To access our […] Continue reading →
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