Tag Archives: windows xp

My little eeepc 701 lives!!

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Chris

It lives!! About a month ago my trusty Asus Eee pc701 developed the ‘click of death’ – bugger.  Initially I thought the hard drive was the soldered SSD type which would have meant game over (new motherboard required) but after … Continue reading →

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Have you tested that software yet?

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Chris

April 8th 2014.  You may want to add that date to your diary as it is the end of support date for Windows XP.  If you are still on Windows XP after that date you will not get any further … Continue reading →

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IPv6 for Windows XP

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Chris

Like it or not IPv6 is coming and quickly too.  All modern operating systems have IPv6 installed and enabled by default – except Windows XP.  IPv6 is indeed installed but it is not activated. Open up a command prompt and … Continue reading →

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The internet is changing

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Chris

Don’t worry it won’t be imminent but it will happening over the next 18 months or so.   You see the addresses that everyone uses at the moment are called IPv4 addresses (e.g 152.52.1.21) and they are running out.  A … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged addressing system, estimates, ip address, ipsec, ipv4 addresses, ipv6 addresses, linux, linux distributions, priority, quality of service, router, windows xp | 4 Comments