Category: Technology

That’s not a brush…

February 7, 2009 - Land Rover , Technology - by admin - No Comments

This a real brush… It’s rated at 8500 RPM, but the grinder runs at 10,000RPM. Frighteningly fast, and slightly unwieldy due to the gyroscopic effect present. On a related note, due to such machinery, the replacement bulkhead is almost clean now. A touch more here and there, and it will […]

Asterisk Jabber Call Notifications

January 5, 2009 - Asterisk , Computers , Geek , Technology , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

The other evening I busied myself with tweaking Asterisk to do some more geeky things. One such item was where I configured it to send a message to my Jabber account every time there was a call to a particular extension. Great for call logging, integration, and general user friendliness. […]

Track-It Madness

August 31, 2008 - Technology , Windows , Work , Zenworks - by admin - No Comments

Sadly we’re having to migrate to Track-It at work, and muggins here has been tasked with ensuring the agent can deploy nicely. After some initial crazyness with manual installs, or login script launched installs, I managed to wrap it into an MSI. Details can be found over here.

100Mb/sec to 95.5% of the country?

August 18, 2008 - Internet , Technology , United Kingdom - by admin - No Comments

As Steve points out, Ofcom have recently released their study on the potential future of the UK broadband network using the existing copper telephone network. There’s two main methods of DSL delivery to end users. One is to have the DSL modems hiding in the local exchange, and the other […]

Vodafone 3G

February 21, 2008 - Geek , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

Looks like someone has taken design classes from Apple, and failed. It is, however, still rather dinky and shiny. Now, if only Vodafone would activate them before they send them out to us, like they used to.