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Henry Olonga visits Isleham

Posted on July 20, 2010April 12, 2020 by wally

We were recently graced with a visit from Henry and Tara Olonga, preaching and singing at our outreach event for 2010. I cannot thank Henry and Tara enough, their dedication to the gospel – their confidence to preach Christ and Him crucified, sin and Hell. I was fortunate enough to find opportunity to take some […]

The past, present and future

Posted on June 23, 2010April 12, 2020 by wally

Well, things have finally moved on. Apparently somewhere, myself and Wonga were trying to meet half way, and consistently missing. But fortunately that’s no longer the case. You’ll see the blog entry originally outlining my issues has now been removed, hidden from the prying eyes of Google and those who clearly want nothing more than […]

Businesses – sell your unused bandwidth!

Posted on May 1, 2010April 12, 2020 by wally

During a recent conversation with a colleague at work, it began to dawn on me the sheer wasted bandwidth small and large businesses sit on during the “out of working hours”. I’ve no idea if anything like this has been done before – if it has, then fair play. If not, then I think it’d […]

Recovering a dead drive

Posted on October 11, 2009April 12, 2020 by wally

Disclaimer: I’m certainly no expert in the area of data recovery, and I will not take any responsibility for damage of you, your or anyone else’s hardware/data caused by following these ideas. This entry is nothing more than a diary of what I did for my and other people’s future interest or reference. Recently I […]

Designing a “perfect” home router

Posted on May 14, 2009April 12, 2020 by wally

It’s been on my mind for some time now … possibly due to my work (where I am interacting with “technical” people who even themselves struggle) – there must surely be a “near perfect” home router design, something which anyone who has used the Internet on their home computer can install and configure. I currently believe […]

NIC teaming on Debian Etch and Lenny

Posted on January 23, 2009April 12, 2020 by wally

There are plenty of HOWTOs on so called NIC teaming or NIC bonding for Debian, but of the ones I’ve seen, they’ve all missed some rather important bits. Below is the method I personally found to work reliably: apt-get install ifenslave echo "bonding" >> /etc/modules modprobe bonding ifdown eth0apt-get install ifenslave echo "bonding" >> /etc/modules […]

Garrrr! International speak like a pirate day yarr!

Posted on September 19, 2008 by wally

On that note: I be feeling lucky!

Accessing Apple Higher Education store from home

Posted on July 11, 2008 by wally

If you’re an Essex University student (i.e. you have a valid Essex login) and you’re tired of having to enter campus for access to the Apple Higher Education store, you’ll probably be pleased to know you can do it from home. If you’re running Linux/Unix (including OSX), you’ve already got everything you need. Windows users […]

Reconstructing heavily damaged hard drives

Posted on July 3, 2008March 4, 2013 by wally

[EDIT: Hey guys, thanks for the feedback! Someone over at virtuallyhyper.com has an awesome write up that deals with SD cards specifically (but is highly relevant to hard drives too), with a set of much improved and updated scripts. I’d strongly recommend taking a look … Recover files from an SD card using Linux utilities] […]

MacBook case crack

Posted on June 29, 2008April 12, 2020 by wally

To celebrate my 2:1 degree (praise the Lord), my MacBook decided to aquire a none to small crack on the wrist rest. Naturally Apple have spent the weekend getting new parts and fixing it for free, but one does have to wonder if they’re falling victim to cheap materials?