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The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer

About Me

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.

4 May, 2016 Blog

Obtaining SDWinPEx64.iso – HP WinMagic Decryption Tool

This Windows pre-boot execution environment ISO can be used on encrypted HP drives to recover the data or fix the

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5 April, 2016 Blog

Fixing an iPhone with broken home button ribbon connector contacts

After dropping my iPhone 5c a fair few times and, oddly, not breaking the screen… the home button stopped working.

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Raspberry Pi PCB
4 April, 2016 Blog

Obtaining linux-headers packages for Rasberry Pi Raspbian

It is a right faff to get the relevant linux-headers-* package for your Kernel version on a Raspberry Pi. I

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Huawei E160
4 April, 2016 Blog

Enabling voice on a Huawei E160 (AT^DDSETEX failed)

This is a low cost 3G Dongle, often found O2 branded. It supports GSM voice calls and can work with

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OBi110
17 March, 2016 Blog

How to set up the Obihai OBi110 as a PSTN gateway

The OBi 110 provides an FXO port to connect to an analogue telephone line (PSTN). Once it is connected, you

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OBi110
17 March, 2016 Blog

How to configure the Obihai OBi110 for the United Kingdom PSTN

The OBi110, as with most ATAs, comes configured for the US. For those of us on the other side of

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10 October, 2014 Blog

How to use a different default browser for different websites

Why? Some websites that you use regularly will work better in a certain browser. Whether it be age-old corporate intranets

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Sonos Local Diagnostics Network Matrix
2 August, 2014 Blog

How to optimize Sonos for best performance

Sonos technical support is great and if ever you have an issue, I highly recommend giving them a call. However,

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18 April, 2014 Blog

How to force TLS v1.0 in PHP

PHP 5.6+ Users This is a new feature as documented on the PHP 5.6 OpenSSL Changes page. At time of

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15 November, 2013 Blog

Raspberry Pi Project – A 1960s wallbox interfaced with Sonos

The inspiration for this project came from @nivnov pointing me to http://wallbox.weebly.com/. I had somewhat of a different take on the

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