Fri 10 June 2011 | tags: ipv6, ping, sixxs, -- (permalink)

We need native IPv6, or at least a decent PoP in Australia!

Currently our home network is IPv6 enabled via a Sixxs tunnel. If we lived in NZ then our PoP would be in NZ. Unfortunately we can't use the NZ PoP, so instead we use the London PoP! Eventually …

Thu 02 June 2011 | tags: digital river, micro$oft, microsoft, steal, -- (permalink)

Microsoft's student "Its not stealing" campaign is supposed to make it easy for students to afford Microsoft products so they don't need to pirate them (and steal them). That's fine as long as it works and Microsoft don't steal from us!

Twice I've now attempted to place an order with …

Wed 20 April 2011 | tags: code, pdf, php, scan2pdf, scanner, scanning, -- (permalink)

I needed a simple and quick way for other users on the network to be able to scan documents. So far, what I had been doing was running a little bash script I found on the net, and scanning multiple pages into a pdf. The problem was that I needed …

Tue 19 April 2011 | tags: damaged, fat32, recovery, sector, -- (permalink)

First, getting an image of the damaged hard drive.

$ ddrescue -n /dev/inputdevice rescued.img rescued.log

$ ddrescue -r 1 /dev/inputdevice rescued.img rescued.log

The first ddrescue command tries to fly through the disk as quickly as possible, skipping over sections when an error occurs. This allows me …

Fri 08 April 2011 | tags: Cap Plan, Comparison, Exetel, iinet, Mobile, Optus, Pennytel, Phone, Post Paid, Pre Paid, Provider, Telstra, Virgin, voip, -- (permalink)

With so many options, so many plans, it's hard to know if we are being ripped off or getting a good deal. Then bring in VoIP, and things get even trickier.

For the sake of this research, I was looking for a mobile phone plan, prepaid or post paid, that …

Tue 05 April 2011 | tags: password, project honey pot, pwdhash, security, spam, -- (permalink)

I recently pushed out a new version of the GRASE Hotspot. I spent lots of time working on rewriting the splash/welcome page, and login forms so that they would work even with javascript disabled, and allow you to force it into the non javascript version if you are having …

Sun 03 April 2011 | tags: Access-Reject, CoovaChili, FreeRadius, Hotspot, Reply-Message, -- (permalink)

I was going to post this on the Grase Hotspot site, but will post it here in depth and just the basics on the hotspot site.

Previously I researched this problem and found very little, it would seem since my last search more material has become available that has assisted …

Fri 18 March 2011 | tags: brother, hl2140, Printer, -- (permalink)

Having many years ago had Brother printers that made it easy to print a test or information page, it was good to finally find out how to do it again. Of course, if you have the nice windows drivers, hidden in there somewhere you can just click "Print Settings" and …

Tue 14 December 2010 | tags: CoovaChilli, FreeRadius, GRASE, GRASE Hotspot, Hotspot, -- (permalink)

3 years in the making, and finally I am releasing the code for the GRASE Hotspot. I've always planned on releasing the code, but had a lot things I wanted done before the code was released, in particular making it easy to install, and modular, as well as more secure …

Fri 29 October 2010 | tags: asterisk, bridge, callback, sip, sip to sip, voip, voip to voip, webcallback, -- (permalink)

Call it what you like. Sip to Sip, VoIP to VoIP, VoIP Bridge, Callback, Webcallback. The idea is to have a server somewhere call two SIP(VoIP) devices and connect the 2 calls together.

What's the point of it? Maybe you are stuck somewhere with a phone that only accepts …