Problem: This blog has been a great place to brainstorm and share my ideas and activities with the world however it's always bugged me slightly that I've had no way to get feedback from my audience. I dislike contact forms, as it means I have to either find a decent

Problem Ghost (this blog) is a great platform, nice and easy to run, maintain and post on. Problem is I didn't like the default page width, it was just a little too slim. Solution Thanks to Alex H, who knows CSS unlike myself managed to find the line you need

Introduction: This post will serve as a repository for software I find which is fairly niche, or serves a particularly useful purpose. I'm often finding something which is useful and then can never find it again when I need it! I'm not going to include a lot of mainstream stuff,

Problem Right, so, usually these things tend to be about me fixing my own problems, however this time it's one for Billy. Every time the bugger installs windows 10, he has issues getting his engraving machine to work. The drivers only go up to windows 8, and nothing is ever

Problem As I write more and more of these posts I realise that I am using snippets of code here and there more and more frequently. Ghost (the CMS this blog runs) has support for some code insertions, however is generally fairly poor. I wanted to see if I could

Problem Using squid as a proxy is useful in a situation where a lab does not have internet access, however sometimes it is necessary to use an upstream proxy. In my case my proxy is bridging two networks to allow internet access from one into the other, however the network

Problem When testing convergence times packet loss duration is a useful attribute to have. One implementation is to use a static packet rate for example 1000 frames per second and note the number of packets lost and calculate the duration. However this can be done inside ixia itself but is