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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.

22 October, 2012 Blog

Creating a “Guest Wifi” with 802.1Q VLAN Tagging in pfSense and DD-WRT

Preface: For explanation of VLAN tagging, see this post.  This seems quite a common thing to do yet it’s proved

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2 July, 2012 Blog

Setting up mIRC to auto perform (GeekShed)

To set up the server: click the icon that looks like a folder and hammer, a box will pop up

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Network Diagram
17 April, 2012 Blog

How to set up Internet connection (WAN) failover in Cisco IOS

This technique makes a Cisco router monitor connectivity to an IP address, over the primary connection and switch to using

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14 April, 2012 Blog

How to clear the UnrealIRCD DNS (hostname) cache

The UnrealIRCD hostname cache records the reverse mapping between IP addresses and hostnames. This saves it having to frequently repeat

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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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Sed Cat
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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