Category Archives: Internet
Monitoring Bandwidth Usage on a Virgin Media Super Hub (aka the VMNG480)
In the past year I have come at heads with Virgin Media regarding their fair use policy, which is basically “use all you want at peak times unless you start to slow down other people’s connections, in which case we give you a warning”. Apparently I was downloading 60GB non-stop every hour (let’s ignore the [...]
Current Work on some new Techious Membership Features
Now only if Windows would let me use WebDAV over https without tripping up over itself every 30 seconds… Basically I have been working on a nice WebDAV document store. Once complete it will either be a new store or just link to main hosting for Techious Members. (Finally a use for SpcookCMS’ “Member Store [...]
tchs.eu – The Little URL Shrinker that could
Right, well this will only be of interest to a few you, and even a smaller set of those will know what this is all about. Some time ago I created tchs.eu, a small URL shortener just like any other. Think of it as a Techious branded tinyurl.com. And for a while things were good. [...]
A Lack of Updates
Yeah, I know I have kindof been neglecting this website somewhat at the moment. But, this is because I have been quite busy. For my first week back at Uni I had two pieces of coursework that needed completing aswell as some other stuff that needed doing. Also a week ago I had an exam [...]
ElfReedy
I know this has been on Techious for quite a whie, but I thought it would be good to share some good lols this Christmas Time. After Aaron’s insertion of pictures of us in ElfYourself, and seeing Reedy’s reaction to it, I put 5 pictures of him from the End of Sixth Form album and [...]
How to upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10 using Yum
On Tuesday, the latest version of Fedora came out which includes the usual round-up of new updates for several purposes, which can be read http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/index.html#sn-Fedora_10_overview I use a Fedora 9 server, which I can’t get to, so the normal method of putting a disc in and letting anaconda do all the work just isn’t suitable [...]
New Gmail Themes
Just got this update literally a minute ago, and it confused me… what the hell, my gmail looks different. It appears theres now themes built into it, which seem to be just like iGoogle themes. There are 31 themes at the moment, and I have screenshotted a few for you here: Right now I am [...]