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Nov/11

Samsung 46D8000 Mini Review

Filed Under Review, T.V at 29th November 2011 0:01 by

Overview I have been eyeing up a Samsung 8000 series T.V since last year and since the only discount that was applied was around £200 from release till the the C model was EOL with the new D series, it … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

Energy@Home 0.7 Released

Filed Under energy@home at 23rd November 2011 22:37 by

This new release with the main focus on multichannel support. There were a lot of paint along the way most noticeable performance issues. The multichannel support allows for 2 or 3 phase CT clamp compatibility. Channels are different from appliances. … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

Resizing VirtualBox Disk

Filed Under Linux, Software at 18th November 2011 10:29 by

I ran out of disk space on my virtual machine and needed more space. I did not want to create a new disk and install from scratch but VirtualBox does not have any GUI tools which would resize a disk … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

namebench – DNS Tester

Filed Under Networking at 8th November 2011 0:01 by

There’s a really good DNS benchmark tester called namebench. It’s free (beer and source) and runs on Windows and Mac OSX. The software tests the current DNS as well as popular DNS servers like OpenDNS and Google. It also has … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

Things To Install After Installing Ubuntu 11.10

Filed Under Linux at 6th November 2011 17:44 by

A great article on what to install after Ubuntu 11.10 is installed. 10 things to do after installing Ubuntu 11.10

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Nov/11

Colour Test

Filed Under Blog at 3rd November 2011 22:05 by

This is a cool colour test to see how well you perceive colour. The test is simple. Click and drag the colour boxes and re-arrange them from one colour to another. The colour boxes on the left and right are … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

KeePass Mini Review

Filed Under Security, Software at 1st November 2011 0:01 by

Overview Software and services for password manager have been around for a long time. I was skeptical about using such products because I thought it was leaving “all your eggs in one basket”. Loose your key file and / or … Continue reading →

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Oct/11

DD-WRT On D-Link DIR-615

Filed Under Networking at 27th October 2011 0:01 by

I had a spare Netgear DG834N router lying around and thought about flashing it with a different firmware such as Tomato or xWRT but the router was not compatible with any 3rd part firmware. This lead me to replacing the … Continue reading →