In 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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Socket Programming
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 W7 laptop
Building 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.
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ddclient
ddclient is a program for Linux that negotiates with http://dyndns.com to allow systems with dynamic tcp/ip addresses to have static DNS names. This was originally written in 2011, and revisited in 2013. dyndns abandoned their free product some time ago, possibly as a result of being bought by Oracle. I marked the page is ‘deprecated’…
Read moreMicrosoft RDP & Virtual Box
This 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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Samba
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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Linksys WAG 54GS & Power Offs
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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LLTD on Linux
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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Instant Messaging and Chat (Deprecated)
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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Implementing a DHCP Client with BT Home Hub 2.0
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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Windows Networking 2009
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…
Read moreBG2 Multiplayer
These notes were originally created in 2008/2009. I copied them across to this wiki in 2013. Many of the links referred to are no longer available. This article is about how to run BG2 on an early windows build in multiplayer mode, it is quite long. I marked this article as deprecated today. I want…
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mobile VNC
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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What’s my IP address?
Useful question, this is how I answer it on my windows systems.
Read moreHome Entertainment (TV)
Meta The bulk of this snip was written in 2008, much has changed since, although I am still, annoyingly a Sky customer. I updated it in November 2013 when I upgraded the box for free. Skyplus I have just spoken to Sky who have offered to upgrade my skybox for free. So that’s good then….
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