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Posted Image

@LiamRas @nigelinoz doesn’t look like it?

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What’s contained in a boarding pass barcode?

Anyone who has flown within the past few years would have seen the now ubiquitous barcode on the boarding pass that’s scanned upon boarding the aircraft. Over the years I have seen many people post images of these boarding passes online, often while reviewing new technologies such as mobile or web check-in. In most cases any personally identifiable plain-text information

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Cherry Coke

OMG, Cherry Coke. I’ve never seen this in Australia before but loved it in the US.

Plesk 10.2 with IPv6 support – first impressions

Earlier this month, Parallels released a beta of Parallels Plesk Panel 10.2. The feature that I am most excited about is the long awaited IPv6 support. I was skeptical at first as the most recent stable release of Plesk (10.1.1) still doesn’t allow you to add AAAA DNS records for services hosted elsewhere so I decided to try out the

Avalon 2011 – Video Highlights

Here are some video highlights from the 2011 Australian International Airshow at Avalon on March 4, 2011.

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Avalon 2011

@benjmay data wasn’t working so well yesterday so I couldn’t make you jealous. But this one is for you 😉

Avalon 2011

At Avalon Airshow 2011. An unconventional takeoff by Kent Pietsch in his S1-A Cadet “Jelly Belly”, and a short landing by the Italian Air Force in their C27-J. You’ll have to excuse the second part of the clip. I wasn’t watching the screen and didn’t realise the railing was in the way.

HID iClass vs Visa Paywave

I keep a building access card in my wallet. For a while now I have been wondering why my wallet beeps twice when holding it up to the reader. Finally curiosity got the better of me and I had to find out. Here’s why:

How third party DNS resolvers can impact performance

A DNS resolver is to the Internet what oxygen is to a human being. The Internet as we know it today requires them to function and while we may not notice it when they’re functioning normally, we very quickly notice if they are “polluted” (ie: returning bad/stale data) or if they’re offline. Generally speaking, you will use the DNS servers

Canberra Storm

Canberra wants some of that storm action too – and is starting to put on a bit of a light show with a severe weather warning issued for surrounding suburbs where I live.

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