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The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer

Month: February 2012

20 February, 2012 Blog

How to use Netcat – a Netcat tutorial

Netcat is an open source utility which allows you to easily pipe data across a network. You can use it

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DNS Root Servers Map
14 February, 2012 Blog

DNS – Understanding it helps to debug it

The key to working out what’s going on with your DNS is understanding how it works. DNS can be deceptive,

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Holding Page Logo
12 February, 2012 Blog

Website holding pages – always use them

If you have an idea for a website and you’re confident you’re going to go through with it, always buy

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7 February, 2012 Blog

Quick Fix: Filesystem notification initialization error — contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library)

This error can be seen in your mail client and is often caused by Courier. If you are the system

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7 February, 2012 Blog

Bash script – read stdin line by line

There are lots of ways to achieve this in Bash. Below are the two most common: Process Substitution This approach

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5 February, 2012 Blog

BT’s UK FTTC (VDSL2/Infinity) Explained

I realise that the title of this article is a bunch of acronyms, but it’s going to be informative none

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