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Gargoyle on the TP-Link WR1043ND
Updated 29/6/2013: Gargoyle is some of the best custom firmware you can get for a lot of routers. In fact, it’s better than a lot of standard firmware by a long shot. Gargoyles benefits are summed up well on the ‘shop” page of the gargoyle-router.com website: Gargoyle is the only solution on the market that […]
More router reliability musings
Following on from my earlier post last month on “Router reliability musings“, I recently did some additional “testing”, and figured now was a good time to post a follow-up. You see, I was a bit concerned about routers, specifically for anything more than a basic one or two PC household. Where are you left when […]
Restoring to default Galaxy Nexus firmware, or upgrading to the latest Android release from Google
A couple of people have asked me after trying CyanogenMod or MIUI how they can restore back to the latest official builds from Google. Thankfully it’s nice and easy! No screenshots, but we’ll dive right in and get moving, it should only take 2-3 minutes once you’ve got all the files. Before we begin, now […]
Router reliability musings
Having been asked a number of times in the recent weeks about routers and modems for both ADSL2+ and VDSL2, I figured it was time to revisit the subject. I wrote about it some 2 1/2 years ago now, and unfortunately not a lot has changed. ISPs are still giving out cheap routers by and […]
MIUI on the Galaxy Nexus
After the success of the Galaxy S tutorials I wrote back when I had one, I figured now I’ve had my Galaxy Nexus for coming up to two months that I should do likewise. I’ve been taking a bit of a hiatus from MIUI since I got the Galaxy Nexus in late January 2012, but […]
SPA962 with SPA932 Busy Lamp + Call Pickup + Speeddial
So the Linksys SPA962 is a great phone, and coupled with the SPA932 Attendant Console makes it a “must have” for any receptionist when you’re running an Asterisk IP PBX. However, getting it to run happily can be a bit of a mission if you’ve never done it before. Thankfully, it’s not too difficult
Intro to NFC – Part 1 :: What is NFC?
I’m personally betting NFC will be pretty major in 2012, and just because down here in little old NZ we’re a bit behind the curve, I’m betting it’ll be big in 2013 for us too. I think there is HUGE potential to do a lot with NFC, and I can’t wait to see how it […]
Passing on the dialled number ID in Asterisk
So I had a problem recently where the phone number that I was dialling wasn’t being passed on to the destination. In otherwords: I call 0800 83 83 83 (Pretend here, I don’t really work for Pizza Hut). My asterisk box picks up and says “Oh hai, you want Pizza Hut on 0800 83 83 […]
Getting started with VDSL2
So, I got fed up with the crappy speeds from Slingshot, that and it’d been 8 weeks since I’d heard back from them, even though I knew the Ops Manager was gonna be on holiday (That’s still a long holiday), so now we’d figured out that my second Naked DSL connection was working, I switched […]
Site got hacked – Pictures and things missing
So I got hit by the bug in WordPress-3.3.0 and basically a little over a dozen sites of mine were hacked shortly after New Years Day this year. Got them all back up and running (What a PITA that was), but it means there’s no pictures coz I nuked all of them in my rush, […]