Bootsy Collins technical consulting thread

[Bootsy Collins]

Just to give you my background. I have been in the I.T. industry for over 10 years. I have worked independently and have worked in Fortune 500 companies. I currently work for one of the leading companies in the converged networking industry.

Feel free to ask any technical support questions or need advice on making any purchases in computing or networking equipment. Unfortunately I really don't have any experience in software or web development. My expertise is in infrastructure.

[Goodpoop]

I need to back up my itunes on a dell. what do I need to do this? It's only about 16gb of music. computer is getting older and I'm scared it's going to crash. I guess the next question is what new computer should I start looking at? I'm really considering Apple. All I do is surf the net and listen to music. I'm starting to travel more and was thinking of something lite with good battery life. I have an iphone and wife uses an ipad so we are becoming familar with apple.

[Bootsy Collins]

I need to back up my itunes on a dell. what do I need to do this? It's only about 16gb of music. computer is getting older and I'm scared it's going to crash. I guess the next question is what new computer should I start looking at? I'm really considering Apple. All I do is surf the net and listen to music. I'm starting to travel more and was thinking of something lite with good battery life. I have an iphone and wife uses an ipad so we are becoming familar with apple.

It is extremely easy to back up your ITunes library. You just need to put your "My Music-ITunes Library folder on a USB stick. A MacBook is a great choice as the quality of the laptop and it is light due to the aluminum based casing. The Mac OSX Lion is very easy to learn. Another cool feature is that you can literally import your existing Windows machine to the Mac using VMWare Fusion.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have more questions.

[Goodpoop]

I need to back up my itunes on a dell. what do I need to do this? It's only about 16gb of music. computer is getting older and I'm scared it's going to crash. I guess the next question is what new computer should I start looking at? I'm really considering Apple. All I do is surf the net and listen to music. I'm starting to travel more and was thinking of something lite with good battery life. I have an iphone and wife uses an ipad so we are becoming familar with apple.

It is extremely easy to back up your ITunes library. You just need to put your "My Music-ITunes Library folder on a USB stick. A MacBook is a great choice as the quality of the laptop and it is light due to the aluminum based casing. The Mac OSX Lion is very easy to learn. Another cool feature is that you can literally import your existing Windows machine to the Mac using VMWare Fusion.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have more questions.

Thanks sounds easy enough.

[408Mike]

What's the best or ideal way to view network connections? See who or what is connected to my machine or perhaps the network entirely? I know netstat -a and a few variations and I can tell the ip addys connected (if any) but the rest of the info is something of a mystery to me. I typically compare the output there with ps ax or ps aux and what I see in activity monitor. I'm always wondering though, how can I be sure what I am looking at is genuine?

Perhaps include a copy and paste of a netstat -a printout and tell me what's what? I can pm you a few of mine but won't post openly for obvious reasons.

Do you have any advice on how to packet sniff my network? I have cocoa packet sniffer (or analyzer whatever it's called) as well as Wireshark and I can set the packet sniff up but really haven't the foggiest how to make sense of the data. Can you assist in that at all? I want to sniff the coming and going data of my mac as well as independently what is going on via my network overall. I also have Wifi Diagnostics though I don't typically trust OEM software for sensitive type projects.

[Cupid Stunt]

What's the best or ideal way to view network connections? See who or what is connected to my machine or perhaps the network entirely? I know netstat -a and a few variations and I can tell the ip addys connected (if any) but the rest of the info is something of a mystery to me. I typically compare the output there with ps ax or ps aux and what I see in activity monitor. I'm always wondering though, how can I be sure what I am looking at is genuine?

Perhaps include a copy and paste of a netstat -a printout and tell me what's what? I can pm you a few of mine but won't post openly for obvious reasons.

Do you have any advice on how to packet sniff my network? I have cocoa packet sniffer (or analyzer whatever it's called) as well as Wireshark and I can set the packet sniff up but really haven't the foggiest how to make sense of the data. Can you assist in that at all? I want to sniff the coming and going data of my mac as well as independently what is going on via my network overall. I also have Wifi Diagnostics though I don't typically trust OEM software for sensitive type projects.

Why are you using all that shit?

Can't you just log into your routers firmware?