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New Android Phone

I have to admit to being in geek heaven with my new gadget. I have just got myself a new Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S) which I am absolutely loving. So far I haven’t found anything I don’t like, the screen is superb, plus it is very responsive.

I am posting this comment with the [...]

Firefox Tab Previews on Windows 7

How to enable tab previews in Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 [...]

How to Find the total size of all the files in a directory

On Linux systems the command du can provide you with information about file sizes in directories.

Usually I use a command like this

du -hs

or

du -h –max-depth=1

to produce a quick total of the file sizes in the current directory or first level subdirectories respectively.

This is also really handy for doing quick [...]

New flow based router design

For anyone involved in IP network architecture, design, maintenance or planning Lawrence G. Roberts has written a great article for IEEE Spectrum about a new router that makes its decisions based on network flows rather that the traditional packet based model that virtually all current routers use.

He claims that the new router can process [...]

Video for every browser

How to embed video on your web site that ‘just works’ in most modern browsers and operating systems without requiring javascript. [...]

Windows Live Messenger 2009 on XP 64

How to install Windows Live Messenger 2009 on the unsupported Windows XP 64 bit edition. [...]

Fixed vyatta-quagga package

I have built a copy of the latest vyatta-quagga package from the git repositories which includes the fix for the BGP issue with long AS paths containing 32bit ASNs. [...]

Vyatta, open source networking that works.

What’s so great about Vyatta? In testing and practical use of Vyatta as our primary edge routing platform at Modrus I can say the following: Stability: We have deployed Vyatta routers as our primary edge BGP routers, and they have proved to be extremely reliable… [...]

Windows 2008 Terminal Server Web Interface, how not to.

What is wrong with the Windows 2008 Terminal Server Web Interface. [...]

Blogging

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