Prompted by some fellow Networksy types, (Jeff and Jeremy), who’s recent entries on the contents of their toolbags I found extremely interesting; I thought I’d go through mine as I have a few unusual items! Starting with the fairly standard stuff: Good old fashioned and simple wire strippers. These ones have an adjustable lock to
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There’s a gadget out there; one that I’ve been sitting on the fence about. Those that know me will understand how unusual this is, for me to NOT be investigating the latest gadget etc is extremely unusual! I am referring to the Amazon Kindle. As a lover of books, I’ve not really been attracted
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… nay, I NEED one! What am I on about you may ask? The answer is simple…. one of these: It’s an LG N2B1DD2 2 Bay Blu-ray Network Attached Storage 2TB which connects to the Network and provides Network Attached Disk for me to back up and archive data to. I’ve had a 1Tb Buffalo
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Weekends are meant to be time OFF work, right? I’ve not stopped this weekend, but it’s been for a good cause. I had to rearrange the furniture in my room to accomodate some changes I’ve been contemplating for a while now. This included dismantling all of my Computer kit, removing all the surplus cables and
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Quite an interesting clip of Clifford Stoll in action. I can thoroughly recommend his book “The Cuckoo’s Egg” for any Computer Security types out there.
This weekend I went and collected my nice shiny new Television set. I opted for the UE32B7020 from Samsung, which is a 32″ model in the 7-Series range of LED TV’s. I saw a 6-Series LED in a shop a few weeks ago and was captivated by two things. First off the Picture quality was
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This seems to be a bit of a challenge! I’m after a some CD Blanks. Not too difficult I hear you say, even Tescos sell them these days. No, but I want some specific ones. They used to be fairly common a few years ago, when you used to have to be careful which CD
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Right! If this is visible from http://www.cathles.com it means that the Domain Transfer has completed successfully! HURRAH! I used to use easily.co.uk for my hosting services, but maintaining several websites each with their own hosting account, having to pay the {expletive deleted} incessant data transfer topup fees started to exceed £500 per year all told,
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Here’s hoping this vision becomes a reality, but I think there’s actually a fair chance on this one! I found this article today about a Wearable Flexible OLED screen that has been developed by an American company. Now my imagination combined that with the functionality and power of the fantastic Apple iPhone 3G which I’ve
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Good old Ivan Pepelnjak has collated an MPLS Cheet Sheet over on the IOS Hints & Tricks Blog, which may well come in very handy! Or go straight for the PDF Download here: http://wiki.nil.com/wk/images/b/b1/MPLS_VPN_cheatsheet.pdf I could think of one or two engineers at a certain large Telco that might find that quite handy…
