Currently, my hotel only has wired internet access–how quaint. Considering I forgot my mobile router, this would seem to leave me without the ability to get wifi to my iPad and other mobile devices. Luckily, sharing an ethernet connection via AirPort on my macbook is fairly easy.

This recipe will explain how to setup your Airport Extreme Base (AEB, 802.11n compatible) to allow your XBOX 360 Slim to connect wireless to it and get N speeds (up to 70Mbps).

Mac OS X uses the lookupd system to keep a cache or local database of DNS lookup results (among other things). This can substantially increase performance by preventing repeated DNS queries. However, there are times such as moving a web server or troubleshooting networking or DNS server problems when the cached data can be a […]