The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
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 […]
Continue ReadingDuring 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 […]
Continue ReadingDisclaimer: 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 […]
Continue ReadingIt’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 […]
Continue ReadingThere 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 […]
Continue ReadingOn that note: I be feeling lucky!
Continue ReadingIf 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 […]
Continue Reading[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] […]
Continue ReadingTo 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?
Continue ReadingIf you’re responsible for one or more Linux servers, (they provide packages for Linux distributions only, but it may be easily ported to other Unixes) you may be interested in the lesser known tool MondoRescue. It’s essentially nothing more (but it is a lot!) than a front end to several other GPL’ed tools, including BZip, […]
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