Mike Masnick writes a little article forecasting the engineers re-writing the single points of failure out of the internet. He entitles his article, Building A More Decentralized Internet: It’s Happening Faster Than People Realize. He cross references to two articles written by himself back in 2010, Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are…
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I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck!
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Looking at DNS and the attempt to P2P it. Peter Sunde launched a project, reported at Computer World in an article called “P2P DNS to take on ICANN after US domain seizures”. It seems to have got stuck. This article dated 18 Oct 2011 and called Continuing the Distributed DNS System on Slashdot has some…
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I want to configure NTP on this box, i.e. the Cobalt Qube as its losing time. Badly. This was written in 2011 or earlier, and should probably therefore not be used any more.
Read moreIn Jan 2012, the Telegraph ran a story on how Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea boroughs have agreed with O2 to build the world’s biggest free wifi network, this is mirrored at this thread at South East Central. Municipal Urban WiFi at Wikipedia, includes a list of Cities with fee Citywide WiFi, in the UK,…
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It has to be Python Don’t ask. http://docs.python.org/howto/sockets.html, the official python documentation site http://www.kellbot.com/2010/02/tutorial-writing-a-tcp-server-in-python/, a rather wonderful tutorial http://doc.astro-wise.org/socket.html, more but harder to understand, for me at least and http://www.evolt.org/node/60276 which has slightly different flow control,
Read moreBuilding a new laptop is always a fraught exercise and in this case I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I am also upgrading from a Dell Latitude to HP Probook 5320m.
Read moreThis article was written in 2010 and became defunct. I have not deleted it as I still use the product and that use is increasing. I may create an RDP page as I don’t expect to need this and the RDP integration with today’s W10 is much better. The article looks at using an ipodtouch…
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Not just for file sharing, but also supports printing and name services. I now make it part of my standard Linux builds within Virtual Box but it is a pain in the arse with Ubuntu, it never seems to work out of the box.
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I tested the household power yesterday and turned the Gateway off for 2 hours. Resetting Factory Defaults When it came up the wireless wouldn’t work. So I rang Linksys and they talked me through resetting factory defaults. For those of you following me, you must document your encapsulation and consequent parameters, your wireless settings and…
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It seems this is possible, and would be useful for work where all the laptops are Vista machines. This is deprecated, but if you want to see my notes, made in 2009, then read more …
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This article has not matured well. I had been planning to write a blog, which discussed the current attempts led by Google to re-enclose the chat communities. The landscape had changed, with Google, in the spring of 2013 shit-canning Google Reader its RSS reader, and crippling XMPP in Google Talk. I had meant to write something…
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The BT Home Hub supports dynamic and static i.e. file IP acquisition strategies for networked systems. It also permits the “fixing” of addresses to a dynamic client. I have implemented dynamic but fixed addresses on my three servers. So note, we now have dynamic, fixed and static addresses. One needs to be clear when asking…
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This snip is about fixing the Vista/XP networking interoperability problems, and now Windows 8. I have renamed the article Windows Networking. I renamed it Windows 2009 in 2019, as I needed to reuse the then current title elsewhere. Throughout the permalink https://davelevy.info/wiki/vista-networking/ should still work, otherwise it wouldn’t be a permalink. Supporting links began to fail…
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I got interested in VNC. I have some notes elsewhere in the wiki, when I built a vnc server for AWS, so I could use windows to manage the remote Linux box. This note was written when I was experimenting with playing PC games through a small screen/handheld device.
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