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Phil's Blog

The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer

Author: Phil Lavin

I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage. I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings. I'm on GitHub! I'm also currently fairly active on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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

This is a really useful bit of code which I use almost daily to speed up routine  tasks. You can

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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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D-Link DSL 320B
29 January, 2012 Blog

D-Link DSL-320B: A truly awful modem

The irony of this post is that, only a few days ago, I was singing the praises of the D-Link

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22 January, 2012 Blog

Maximum transmission unit (MTU) explained

The maximum transmission unit (MTU) is a term used in data networking and refers to the maximum size of a

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D-Link DSL 320B
16 January, 2012 Blog

Using BE Unlimited with another modem

I’m canceling my BE contract and need to return the BE Box to them. I’m getting a connection with an

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15 January, 2012 Blog

VLANs and 802.1Q VLAN Tagging explained

VLANs are a feature of almost all managed . A managed switch will allow you to assign ports to VLAN

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