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Accelerating Mobile Broadband for faster browsing speed and less bandwidth 16 Apr 2012 | 05:33 am
This post is to help you improve mobile broadband speed on your linux system, be it a laptop, notebook, tablet or desktop. The same guide should work equally well under windows as the software used is...
DIY 8Tb NAS for under 360 pounds 13 Apr 2012 | 10:34 am
An 8Tb storage system for under £360? Is that even possible, and if so – how? That was the task I set out for myself during 2011 as storage space in our home was running low and a suitable tower case ...
Akamai cloud based security ‘Kona Site Defender’ now available as a standalone product 22 Feb 2012 | 02:38 am
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2012/press_022112.html Proven Web Site and Application Security Capabilities Now Available as Stand-alone Solution CAMBRIDGE, MA, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 – Ak...
Improve Tmobile USB Mobile Broadband, PDA, Smartphone or Tether Picture Image Quality 31 Jan 2012 | 01:23 pm
The problem For the past year or so I have relied heavily on a T-Mobile broadband dongle for when I am out and about. Generally the speed has been OK – at least 1mbps when signal is good – though I ha...
HTTP statuscats API 17 Dec 2011 | 02:21 am
After seeing the awesome HTTP status cats by Girliemac, I have knocked together a quick and easy API to allow webmasters, administrators (and anyone else really) to be able to use the status cats as a...
Kirstie and Phils House Hunter App 27 Sep 2011 | 01:28 am
A mate over at the BBC let me know that a cool iphone app for house hunting is on offer. Im not one for normally promoting products, but this one seems pretty cool – Begin Press Release ‘Kirstie and P...
$500k bitcoin theft 16 Jun 2011 | 01:51 am
Recently a user on the bitcoin forums reported a theft of a very large amount of bitcoins – 25,000 of them (worth approx $500,000 USD). See here. This is, to my knowledge, the first major theft of suc...
Western Digital SATA errors under linux 19 May 2011 | 10:01 pm
I have a problem with a SATA drive from western digital when running under linux. Sometimes errors get thrown and the device stops responding fr a while. The drive performed perfectly under windows. T...
ant video downloader firefox addon tracking my browsing 11 May 2011 | 09:32 am
Update May 20th 19:42Z+0100: Mozilla have re-instated the ant.com downloader to the addons site, however it is now classed as ‘experimental’. As I have said elsewhere in this article, it was pretty cl...
Updated location applet 23 Apr 2011 | 11:59 am
Following the recent article on El Reg by Dan Goodin, I have updated the location applet I wrote back in Feb 2010 Heres a scenario – you go to a website and they have a signed java applet in their pag...
