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This site contains useful notes to remind myself how to configure Linux, repair electronics or use technical features in common software.
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Protocols, not apps
Posted on April 5, 2013 | No CommentsTweetThe thing that makes the Internet work is its variety of communication protocols, rather than the apps that use those protocols. We’re all too obsessed with latching onto one particular... -
Hacking my Technicolor 515v7 BeBox for Power-over-Ethernet
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsTweetThis is a post explaining how (and why) I “hacked” my ADSL router to use Power-over-Ethernet without permanently altering the router. -
Shellinabox – Access a command line over HTTP
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsTweetBeing able to remotely administer a Linux machine using SSH is something so common and normal that it often gets taken for granted. Mobile broadband is quick enough that with... -
Amazon Kindle 3 ‘WiFi’ problems and pfSense
Posted on August 9, 2011 | 1 CommentTweetA few weeks ago I replaced my malfunctioning Netgear ADSL modem/router/firewall with separate pieces of hardware, the main one being an old PC running the BSD-based firewall ‘OS’ pfSense. After... -
NAT Loopback on a Speedtouch 780 BeBox
Posted on July 23, 2011 | No CommentsTweet If you still have a Thompson Speedtouch 780 ADSL2+ router (for example you might be a Be Internet customer who signed up when they first opened, and received one...