Posted in Development, Internet, Microsoft on Mar 8th, 2010
I spent some time last weekend migrating the Work Avoidance site away from Gradwell and onto a dedicated virtual server from MEMSET. Since this involved a move to a Windows box away from UNIX hosting, I had to configure in IIS7 some of the settings I had in the .htaccess under the UNIX host.
Posted in Hardware, Infrastructure, Internet on Mar 10th, 2009
It’s one of those “why didn’t I think of that before?!” moments. BT are selling a device called the iPlate at the moment claiming that for 7 out of 10 people it will increase their DSL speed by filtering out the noise from the bell wire in your master socket. By all accounts it does [...]
Posted in Internet on Jul 16th, 2008
Three handy sites for people who need to manage the volume of email coming in.
Don’t want to be included on the latest “funny” forward, let your correspondent down gently with www.thanksno.com.
Or do you have a contact who doesn’t know how to use BCC and reveals your email address to everybody else they’re sending the message [...]
Posted in Internet on Jul 11th, 2008
I’m a metrics geek, I can’t help it. Once again I have to sing the praises of Zen’s Office 8000 Max ADSL service. When they say unlimited they really mean it, and since I’m only about 350m from the Exchange, I actually get the full 8Mb.
Check out the graph (click for bigness) which shows my [...]
Posted in Internet on Dec 2nd, 2007
I was reminded today that my ISP (Zen) provide a portal where their users can check out their broadband usage. I’m on an unlimited plan (Zen Office 8000 Max) so don’t need to worry about it month to month, but I thought the stats were interesting:
I came across the Fontifier site the other day, for 9 USD they’ll make you a TTF (True Type Font) file of your own handwriting. It’s a painless process: print the template, draw your scrappy handwriting into the boxes, then scan and upload it to them. I’ve done mine, and it’s quite fun [...]
The public beta of Internet Explorer 7 has been out for a while now, and like the good Microsoft soldier I am, I installed it this week. It’s very nice. If you’ve only ever used IE it’ll be full of neat new toys that you’ve never seen before. If you’ve been using Firefox or Safari, [...]
Posted in Apple, Games, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Software, Virtualisation on Apr 19th, 2006
Richard sent me an email yesterday with a link to this article along with the message “You’ll love this one…” If you’ve followed the Windows on Mac saga recently go and read it now, if you’re anything like me and Richard you’ll have plenty to say on the subject once you’ve finished reading.
I couldn’t believe [...]
Posted in Apple, Hardware, Internet, Software on Mar 13th, 2006
The wizards (nay, geniuses) over at the Max OS X Internals Blog have developed what they’re calling BAMBIOS – software that allows legacy booting on Intel-based Macs. From their post:
For example, a regular (that is, non-EFI) version of Linux can be readily booted using this software. [...] Linux works fine, and we have made [...]
Posted in Hardware, Infrastructure, Internet, Microsoft, Networking, Software, Tech Support, Virtualisation on Mar 4th, 2006
We recently had the need to simulate a routed environment with low bandwidth/high latency links between remote sites. To achieve this I used m0n0wall – a free software router – running inside Microsoft Virtual Server on multiple virtual NICs. Here’s how to get it up and running…