Cisco is planning a companion device to its popular Flip mini video recorder. According to a new FCC filing, it’s called FlipShareTV, and it basically does for Flip what Apple TV does for the iPod — only not as easily.

Apparently the device works by a semi-complicated process where you transfer your Flip videos to your computer as you normally would, and then connect the FlipShareTV USB device to your PC. The USB device streams video from your PC to the FlipShareTV, which you connect to your television. An included remote control lets you control the videos that are played on …read more

Here’s a quick question for anyone out there with SQL connectivity and VPN access experience.
I’m trying to figure out why I can no longer connect to a SQL database within my local network when I’m connected to a VPN into another network.

As you can see from the above setting in the VPN client, I’ve got the “Allow Local LAN Access” checked.
Is it just not possible? Am I confused about what “Allow Local LAN Access” actually means? I can still connect to other network shared directories and machines on the LAN. I just can’t get access to anything through Microsoft …read more