Recently I have been seeing quite a few laptops arriving in the office with their NICs set to strange DNS entries. It appears that some home broadband routers are able to overwrite the DNS setting for a NIC and apply some strange IP range. The below script when applied in GPO will reset the DNS back to “obtain DNS server address automatically”. Continue reading »
Recently at my place of work the question was raised about adding a friendly name to a drive mapping for workstations attached to a our domain. Now normally we map drives using three different methods depending on the workstation in question and partly from legacy systems.
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Posts on my blog have been few and far between. What’s worse, is that I have not produced anything related to Pyrotechnics. It will happen, just as soon as I find something that I really want to share with you all.
Meanwhile, I came across this website earlier in the week and feel that this is something worth sharing with you all: www.fiverr.com
This is a simple concept of selling a skill or product to people around the world yet unlike craigslist or gumtree or even ebay, the skill tends to be more from a creative background and must be priced at $5. As a test I have comissioned a member of fiverr to design me a logo for this blog and a second member to design me a wedding flyer for my fireworks display company.
Lets see how they compare. Delivery is due later this month for the logo and early January for the flyer. Although it’s a test, I intend to use both products so the wedding flyer will grace my stand at wedding faires. I’m hoping that the logo will also become an avatar for my many forum accounts.
It doesn’t have to stop at $5 though. If you like the results then you can pay a bit extra for the source file or more for additional services. Think of it as a place to show off your talents to prospective customers who might be looking to commission a larger project with serious money. Some of the members are very talented based on their portfolios.
At my age you would think I would have known but my understanding on capacitors has been completely and utterly wrong.
It took a video from this guy Collin Cunningham to teach me what a capacitor really is and how it functions.
In fact, if you are new to electronics in any way, I can thoroughly recommend watching all of his videos. They contain clear and concise information which will leave you with enough understanding to search for the next level of knowledge. Thanks Collin and thanks also to Jeelabs for pointing out these videos.
I purchased the Arduino Duemilanove and GSM shield back in 2011 with the sole intention of building an alarm system for my Garage. The method was quite simple. Use Arduino to sense for break-in using IR and magnetic operated (reed) switches and send text messages to a preset phone number . I also wanted to arm and disarm the system using text messages.
So my first test was to see if I could get the GSM shield to communicate with our phone provider which is O2 in the UK. Continue reading »
I suppose it was due to happen at one point in time. Owning a Xerox Colorqube is similar to owning a colour laser printer except that the technology is similar to an ink jet. In this case, you melt ink before squirting it onto the paper.
I have had my Xerox Colorqube 8570DN printer for a year now and it is still performing very well for our needs. In that time we have printed 2,379 pages and have just added our first set of colour wax solid ink blocks to the printer. As each wax block is 2,500 pages, I would say that the printer usage is spot on.
As some of you may know, I operate a small fireworks business and to keep costs low we would print our own brochures and leaflets. At the beginning this was fine on an inkjet with quality brochure paper. The Canon Pixma with a full set of inks will give 50 A4 double sided prints before the carts run low. Continue reading »
Oh Dear! I bought a HP all-in-one. What a massive mistake. Continue reading »
Having experienced quality dot matrix printers and observed when inkjets arrived on the scene with their outpourings of bodily fluids into the printer chassis. It took quite a while before I could justify to myself the purchase of an Inkjet for personal and business use. Continue reading »