Circuit Simulator Applet – falstad.com

This is a very cool little app that I found after listening to Security Now Episode 233: Let’s Design a Computer. Some of the basic circuits were hard to visualize and this app kind of brings them to life with animated current flow and some interactivity. For the podcast you’ll want to look in the Circuits menu for the Logic Families/RTL for the circuits being discussed.

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Get Vista and Samba to work – Code Monkey Business AU

I used these instructions to get my Windows 7 clients to connect to my Mac 10.4 server.

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Early adopters of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system may notice that it will not connect to Samba share folders out of the box. This will be a bit of a pain for many enterprise customers. The technical reason is because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication. According to a Google search Samba doesn’t support this yet.

Update: Some readers have pointed out that NTLMv2 authentication is supported in Samba 3.0. However, this certainly wasn’t an option to get this running in my instance.

To get Vista to work with Samba follow the simple instructions

Get Vista and Samba to work – Blogs – Code Monkey Business – Builder AU.

iPhone Wifi not working? Reset your network settings | A Mountain Top, LLC

iPhone Wifi not working? Reset your network settings | A Mountain Top, LLC.

From the Home Screen, I clicked on “Settings”. From there, I scrolled down to “General” and clicked on it. From there, I scrolled to the bottom, clicked “Reset”, then “Reset Network Settings”. After accepting the warning that I was doing something dangerous and clicking the giant red button, the iPhone started buzzing and shaking and generally throwing a fit. After it was done getting reset, I simply went back into Settings -> Wifi, saw my network, connected and it worked!

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