Phil Lavin’s Articles at Phil’s Blog

Repairing an Air Conditioner Unit (Slow or no Fan)

Intro to AC Units An air conditioning unit isn’t a hugely complex bit of kit. Its major electrical components are

I’ve recently gotten back into Electronics projects. Given the raft of small components and tools you need, it’s tricky to

Intro Looking around online, it seems this unit breaks a lot. Mostly the cause of the breakage seems to be

Foreword NAT and PAT, in their many forms, are so common these days that almost all of CloudCall’s customers use

Foreword AWS Lambda is absolutely wonderful. The ability to deploy code and have it triggered by a variety of sources

JunOS has some system wide settings for TCP MSS. These are limited to all TCP, IPSec VPN and GRE. Sometimes

On most VXLAN deployments, you’ll want to be using EVPN to distribute MAC addresses between devices. However, if you’re doing

Apparently kill -9 always works… except when it doesn’t. It also so seems that 99% of the time, when it

Having recently gone through the APNIC application process (and been accepted as a member), I thought it worthwhile writing about