Skip to content

Phil's Blog

The thoughts and ramblings of an Engineer

About Me

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.

19 August, 2016 Blog

Configuring the permissions of a Samba share

Samba share permissions can be a bit fiddly. The user and group IDs which own the file on the Samba

Continue reading
15 August, 2016 Blog

SOLVED – “mount error(13): Permission denied” when doing cifs mount on LXC container (Proxmox)

When trying to do a command like this on a system running inside an LXC container on Proxmox:   Linux

Continue reading
HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T
12 August, 2016 Blog

HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 as a home server

I picked up a HPE ProLiant Gen8 G1610T with the intention of turning it into a Virtual Machine host to run a

Continue reading
9 August, 2016 Blog

Resolving poor network throughput performance on pfSense running on Proxmox

There exists a bug in the FreeBSD VirtIO network drivers that massively degrades network throughput on a pfSense server. VirtIO

Continue reading
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

Continue reading
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.

Continue reading
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

Continue reading
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

Continue reading
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

Continue reading
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

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 13 Next Posts»
WordPress Theme: Maxwell by ThemeZee.