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Happy New Year

Sure, it’s a little bit late – but Happy New Year! So what did I do in 2011? My New Year’s Eve was celebrated aboard the beautiful Radiance of the Seas on Tasman Sea approximately halfway between Auckland and Sydney. The evening started at 6pm with dinner and the first bottle of Moët & Chandon. Throughout dinner a further two

Solving Plesk 10.3.1 cron issues

My personal web site and other web sites that I operate have been hosted on various servers running Plesk since 2002. I’m comfortable with the platform, and usually upgrade to new versions after experimenting with them in my lab. This past week I made the decision to migrate all my sites from the current machine (running Plesk 10.3.1) to a

The start and end of an era

In 2001 a new era in my life was about to begin. I was 17, in the final year of my Higher School Certificate (HSC) and based in Sydney. I had also started performing a customer service role for a Brisbane based hosting company Aussie Hosts. This role continued over the next few years while I was studying at University.

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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

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.

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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