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In some truly bizarre circumstances, my previous wordpress host - hostgator, suspended my account a few days after paying for another 3 years. I suspect it had something to do with their "support" directing me to turn off automatic billing, actually cancelling the account instead of only turning off billing. While frustrating - it would…
Continue readingThe NBN (National Broadband Network) is an Australian nation building project which was announced in 2009 and was meant to be Australia's savior from our terrible internet services. Unfortunately, it became a political football instead - and has been fucked more times than all the porn stars in the world put together.... to the point…
Continue readingNCSI has been around for a long time now. It can be disabled by using the policy at Computer Configuration\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Internet Communication Management \ Turn off Windows Network Connectivity Status active tests however, disabling it has impacts on technologies such as direct access. Recently a client was getting prompted for auth form their proxy…
Continue readingI implemented Direct Access for a client of mine recently - and all went well, up until they tried to use force tunnelling. This client has a couple of websites that their employees use - and traffic coming from their IP address's gets additional access to these web tools, so it was preferable for them…
Continue readingAs per my previous post, I have moved from wordpress.com to a hosted provider - and the experience has actually been quite good. I used Nadolu Co Media to help me transfer the site, come up with a new theme and work out a few kinks. Initially, we did some other business related work, but…
Continue readingI have finally moved my blog to a "full" version of wordpress on a hosted service. Below is the last post from the old hayesjupe.wordpress.com Hi all, just a heads up - I have finally bitten the bullet and registered www.hayesjupe.com and will be moving this blog over to that site this weekend (20/21st December)…
Continue readinghttp://stealthpuppy.com/work-around-for-getting-file-transfer-manager-to-download-from-technetmsdn/ direct downloads are normally a good thing - and download managers normally suck, but in the case of TechNet/MSDN downloads - where the download sizes are large (up to 6gb generally for me) - Microsoft File Transfer Manager is great. I think why I like it so much is that it performs basic functions…
Continue readingSo, we've almost been in our new house a year now - and things are slowly getting done. Based on the advice of an electrician mate, we went with a btcino home automation system..... suppoedly its one of the btter ones around.... i think because he's used to comparing it to the (seemingly) universally panned…
Continue readingEvery now and again - i do a quick search to see what new compression techniques are coming - as obviously any advances in this area have a large impact on many aspects of what we do... Came across this article - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230510/New_video_compression_tech_will_cut_bandwidth_use_in_half_Ericsson_says claiming a 50% reduction in bandwidth for streaming..... as per usual, the…
Continue readinghttp://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum i love the oatmeal (in a hetrosexual kind of way.... not that there would be anything wrong with it if it was in another way) I dont agree with everything he says or does - but i do agree with a lot of it.... and using your popularity to generate funds towards something in…
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