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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.

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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12 September, 2013 Blog

Changing the outgoing SMTP (sending) IP address in Postfix

This is far easier than I thought it’d be. I had to change it to get around some blacklisting my

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2 August, 2013 Blog

How to detect Sonos devices on your network

A potential project requires me to detect Sonos devices on a network and find their IP addresses. Since Sonos only

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1 August, 2013 Blog

How to use Kernel GPIO interrupts on the Raspberry Pi

Presumably everyone knows what the Raspberry Pi is, by now, so I’ll not start there. You may or may not

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5 May, 2013 Blog

Setting up a failover ADSL connection on a Cisco Router

This method will monitor a connection via  ping and, on failure, it will bring up the line. Below is my

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16 April, 2013 Blog

How to set up Internet connection (WAN) failover in Cisco IOS including e-mail notifications

As a revision to my earlier post on the matter, here’s a better constructed way to achieve the same effect

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1 April, 2013 Blog

How to disable ICMP redirects in pfSense

When a router’s next hop gateway is in the same subnet as the previous hop, it’ll send an redirect to

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