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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.

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14 April, 2012 Blog

How to dynamically set variable names in mIRC script

does not have arrays. The nearest and best alternative to arrays in mIRC, is dynamicly named variables. For example, %var1,

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13 April, 2012 Blog

Trimming White Space with Sed

You can use the following sed commands to trim white space from lines of text: Trim white space from both

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12 April, 2012 Blog

Opensource Code Contributions Cartoon

Thanks to @6c61 for this one. It’s so true, it’s not even funny… Click to make it bigger.  

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9 April, 2012 Blog

How to install public access Wi-Fi for your business

I have recently spent a short period of time in the USA. One of the major differences I have noticed,

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26 March, 2012 Blog

Flashing a new IOS onto a Cisco switch or router

This tutorial will guide you through flashing a new IOS onto a or . Cisco devices use IOS images which

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26 March, 2012 Blog

How to securely copy data over SSH

This is a really useful tip, and it has infinite uses in a *nix environment. You can pipe data over

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25 March, 2012 Blog

Rugby Borough Council – Recycling and Refuse Collection Calendar 2012

It’s mighty dull but pretty tricky to find on the travesty that is the Council’s website. First you’ll need to

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25 March, 2012 Blog

Creating a Wireshark compatible .cap file with tcpdump

Tcpdump is a useful tool to capture network packets on a Linux, UNIX, BSD, etc. system. It is nice, however,

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5 March, 2012 Blog

Home Servers – The shit under my stairs

I get asked a lot about the shit under my stairs. It’s not particularly interesting, but I thought I should

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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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