Been fighting with 2.4ghz wireless installs for some time now, and as previously mentioned (somewhere in the blogosphere) I have a lot of wireless saturation down here, so after some research and assistance I decided to replace the 2.4ghz kit with shiny new 5ghz units. As with most wireless hardware you can spend £50 or … Read moreSetting up a 5ghz P2P link
Today’s hot topic has been the fact that the Vodafone network for much of the West of the country has been affected by an outage. Early on little was known until a news story broke about their datacenter being the subject of a break-in. And now, at midday there is still nothing much evident on … Read moreVodafone and damage limitation
At least I think it is! I have been keeping details of my department spend on a spreadsheet, what else? And until this year I was happy with what I was doing, then the dreaded budget rears its head, so I started to think of ways to refine the process. The document is ordered in … Read moreExcel advanced?
This one falls under the “code that makes me” smile category (that I don’t have on the blog), but it’s more about making three lines of code into one… I have a script that converts the contents of a textbox into several sentences as opposed to one large paragraph as form/database uploads tend to natively. … Read moreCondensing my code…
…so yesterday I was working in the loft – we have recently cleaned up some additional offices in our building and they needed the inevitable network connections. The ‘simple’ task of routing some cat5 from our server room to the offices was first up. I do enjoy this kind of work, never really understood why, … Read moreJack of all trades…