Feb 07
A couple of weeks ago I was tasked with solving a connectivity problem between two buildings that had unfortunately lost their fibre optic connection. Due to the limited time scale to come up with a solution an initial wireless 802.11g bridge was created using a pair of Netgear WG302 APs that I managed to find …
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Saturday January 21, 2012 — 10:02 AM
LibreOffice 3.5 RC3 has been released, check it out at: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/. Includes some cool new features and a host of improvements. Watch out Microsoft, you may be popular now….
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Jan 21
Unfortunately Adobe has not made it easy to deploy their Reader software. It poses a number of challenges: Adobe only release MSI installers for major releases. Adobe release MSP installers for minor releases. MSP installers can not be deployed through a GPO. Adobe Reader had an EULA and a user update prompt by default. We …
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Dec 08
I have working a lot this week on a VMware backup solution involving a HP vCentre server and an iSCSI NAS device. Aim The aim was to create a high performance iSCSI network and a fast link to our ESX hosts for a Veeam Backup & Replication job running overnight. Background Veeam is a product …
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Nov 08
Over the past few weeks I have been testing out the latest version of Ubuntu Linux – version 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. This version was released on 13th October 2011 and includes many enhancements over previous versions. Let me go over some of my more notable observations: 1) Gnome UX – Gnome 3.2, included in this …
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Sep 11
Some time ago, whilst back at school, I decided to learn the Microsoft Active Server Pages server side programming language to further advance my abilities as an amateur web developer. As part of this development I built a small suite of web applications and knitted it all together around a very secure, self-built, authentication system. …
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Jul 24
Marking the milestone of the new WordPress 3.2 branch release – I thought it may be time to change the theme used on the site. The new theme will load quicker, according to the Google Page Speed API, as well as providing a host of new features including a Twitter side bar and graphical post …
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Jun 13
Over the past couple of years the buzz word in IT has been ‘cloud’, but what does this actually mean and imply? A network ‘cloud’ is essentially an unknown architecture from which we can draw and store information – much like how the Internet currently works. However, instead of delivering web pages or video how about your …
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Jun 03
After following this much anticipated release for some time the RC2 has been officially declared as the final build for LibreOffice 3.4.0. The updated suite provides a host of bug fixes and user interface tweaks both on Linux and Windows operating systems. Work has already started on the 3.4.1 bug and translation fix release as …
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May 28
Having spent part of the week away in Wales I have not had much time to reflect over the last few weeks releases especially that of the powering forward LibreOffice. Yesterday (27/5) saw the much anticipated RC2 release which, according to the release schedule, may become the final build of the 3.4.0 branch. Having tested …
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