The Short Story Kwik-Fit have featured on more episodes of than I care to count. They have been criticized for inflated
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The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer
I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage (an Ericsson company). 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.
The Short Story Kwik-Fit have featured on more episodes of than I care to count. They have been criticized for inflated
Continue readingWhen files are being uploaded, you cannot rely on the the sends. This data is entirely under the control of
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Continue readingThe following function takes in a number of bytes and the number of decimal places required in the output and
Continue readingThis was a bit of a ridiculous error. It occurred after a PHP upgrade to 5.2.17 running under Apache with
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Continue readingWhen I bought my house, I wired it with cable for data networking. I ran 2 cables to each of
Continue readingI’m not sure why I ever run an `apt-get upgrade` on Debian as I usually spend the next week fixing
Continue readingThis may be a ridiculous way to do this but I couldn’t think of anything better at the time of
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