Adventures in full stack development
If you are a customer of KPN and using their internet or IPTV services, you may want to replace their Experia Box. In my case, I wanted to replace this modem with my own Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X. Here are the changes I made to the router s configuration to get internet and IPTV to work. Note: [ ] The post KPN Internet and IPTV with EdgeRouter X appeared first on Our Technical Narrative .
Introducing Velocita: a Composer plugin that works together with a caching reverse proxy to speed up package downloads and to provide a fallback if the original source (e.g. GitHub or Packagist) is experiencing downtime. Usage Let s get right to it: Note that the proxy (step 1) can be shared between multiple projects and developers. Installing [ ] The post Velocita: fast and reliable Composer…
The Markbass Little Mark III series of amps sound great but all have the same issue: the effects loop is set in parallel and there is no way to adjust the blend on the signals. Let s change the loop to series! What products does this apply to? As far as I know, the hardware for the following [ ] The post Effects loop: parallel to series for Markbass LM III appeared first on Our Technical Narrative…
Since I crossed over to an Android phone for the first time after using iPhones for several years, I have had the pleasure of rediscovering how to configure my phone to do everything I always took for granted. One thing that surprised me is that my Exchange contacts showed up in my phone app, although I had disabled their synchronization. In [ ] The post Android: remove synced Exchange contacts…
Let s take a look at a PHP script used to send spam. These types of scripts run on servers all over the world and might give you some insight into a spammer s dedication to annoy the hell out of you. Spammers abuse known flaws in unsecured websites and applications to break into a server and [ ] The post Dissecting a spammer s spam script appeared first on Our Technical Narrative .
SWT is a widget toolkit developed as part of Eclipse that enables you to develop Java desktop applications that use the OS s native widgets. It is an immensely useful library and really shines in the area of resource management, which boils down to only dispose resources you ve created yourself . Well, sort of. Rules are fun [ ] The post SWT menu disposal memory leak appeared first on Our…
Everybody who has ever used SSH in the vicinity of a computer running Windows knows of the existence of PuTTY, the tiny yet brilliant Swiss army knife of remote communication. These are the chronicles of my default settings. If you happen upon a Windows machine that has not yet had the pleasure of being fitted [ ] The post Serious PuTTY defaults appeared first on Our Technical Narrative .
One of my projects entails running (and developing) network monitoring software on a private uplink. I could use my laptop as a server, but it has a constant energy consumption of about 60 watts which I find a bit much. Enter the SheevaPlug. [Source] The SheevaPlug is a neat little plug computer from GlobalScale Technologies [ ] The post SheevaPlug with Debian Wheezy appeared first on Our…