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Touchatag and RFIDIOt

A while back, Alcatel Lucent were flogging off cheap Tikitag readers and tags due to a naming error. They subsequently became Touchatag, and I picked up a cheap RFID reader and 100 tags for about 10 quid. Bonus. Now to get it working on Linux. Adam Laurie helpfully wrote the […]

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4500G Clustering

Recently we’ve obtained a bunch of 3Com 4500G 48 port switches, and we’d like to be able to manage them slightly more effectively instead of leaving them as dumb switches. However, rather than giving each switch an IP address, 3Com allows you to use HGMPv2 to cluster them all under […]

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More Land Rover Stuff

Work continues on the Land Rover, and it’s mostly road legal now. More than it’s ever been in the past 3 years 🙂 Things now fitted include… Front lighting grills Radiator grill Reversing switch and lamp New floor New seats Replaced foglight wiring and switching New dashboard switches Extra windscreen […]

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OpenStreetMap Glasgow

Get your calendars out. OpenStreetMap is having a social meetup in Glasgow – Tuesday 17th November 2009 at 7:30pm Every three months on the third Tuesday of each month OSM is planning to have regular social meetings at 7:30pm at the Drum and Monkey As this is the first meeting […]

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Lost your APC UPS?

I was in a sticky situation this weekend. I had casually set up one of our APC UPS RT 5000 units to use DHCP to get a statically assigned address. However, I hadn’t implemented Option 43 on the DHCP server and the APC management card had fallen off the network. […]

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