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Business travel

Business travel is tedious at the best of times. But last night (and the early hours of this morning) were so tedious I thought I'd vent some steam here... B...

Paying for things with your phone

Last time I paid for a round in the pub by tapping my phone against the card reader, someone asked me if there was a purpose to such things, other than showi...

Huawei E3372h + Mikrotik: LTE fallback

LTE modem in the Mikrotik router Now that my Mikrotik router is up and running, I turned my attention to a side project I had in mind for the USB port it boa...

tar pipe with nc, updated for 2019

If you're a Linux user, you're probably familiar with the so called tar pipe, a quick and dirty method for transferring files across the local network. It wo...

SSD transplant: Windows 8

A disk I'd been keeping a concerned eye on for some time ... now retired As is traditional while staying with relatives at Christmas, I did some PC upgrades....

TP Link Archer VR600

TP-Link Archer VR600 You might be wondering why I'm blogging about another router just after buying myself something much nicer. The answer, as ever, is one ...

Innotech iComm and SSH port forwarding

You don't get uptime like that on anything modern A bit of a blast from the past, this one. Back in 2011, we replaced all the heating at the church. Sadly th...