Category Archives: WiFi

Triple-boot OS X, WindowsXP and Linux on a Lenovo Ideapad S10-2

Posted on January 5, 2010 by blogmywiki

The aim: to get my Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 netbook to allow me to boot into Mac OS X, Windows XP or Ubuntu Netbook Remix as and when I need each OS – and to get a nice clean Windows install … Continue reading →

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Why is Windows WiFi so slow?

Posted on October 19, 2009 by blogmywiki

A friend of mine has just bought a netbook – a Samsung… I tell everyone I love my Lenovo and they buy Samsungs anyway – and he noticed how slow its wireless networking was compared to his MacBook. I fired … Continue reading →

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Hands on with the Lenovo IdeaPad S10

Posted on September 13, 2009 by blogmywiki

Times are hard and my Apple PowerBook G4 is on its last pixels… its Firewire port doesn’t work, I think the Bluetooth is bust and the final straw was the screen – most of the time two thirds of it … Continue reading →

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Tiny cheap solid-state laptop

Posted on October 9, 2007 by blogmywiki

Tired of waiting for the One Laptop Per Child laptop? How about one of these cuties from RM / Asus? It’ll be £169, uses flash memory not a hard drive, has WiFi and runs Linux. Ticks all the boxes for … Continue reading →

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Why Your Neighbour’s WiFi security is so poor

Posted on May 16, 2007 by blogmywiki

I think I might now know why there are so many unsecured wireless computer networks around. I could never understand this, it seems so stupid to leave your network wide open. Security is easy enough to set up with MacOS … Continue reading →

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