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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

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

Foxtel on Xbox 360 vs Multiroom

Last week I made a post about my Impressions of the Foxtel on Xbox 360 service. As I mentioned, I was uncertain if the service was chargeable for existing Xbox 360 customers as press articles indicated that the service is free but I couldn’t find anything on the Foxtel site to support this. For example, from this article: Existing Foxtel

Impressions of the Foxtel on Xbox 360 service

In late 2010, Foxtel launched their Foxtel on Xbox 360 service with approximately 40 live channels from the Foxtel service. I initially didn’t take a second look at this service as I already have three Foxtel units in my house: I do however have a TV in my home office that currently only has access to free to air (FTA)

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Mirroring the Brisbane City Council web site

This post references UberGlobal. As of June 2011 I am no longer employed by UberGlobal. The floods in Queensland and Brisbane over the past few weeks have shocked and saddened us all. I would think that many, if not all Australians if not affected themselves would know somebody who is. While I’m based in Canberra, I still have family and

Samsung BD-C6900 DVD Region Free

This article describes the steps involving in making the Samsung BD-C6900 DVD player region free.

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A stay at the Limes Hotel

My previous hotel trip report A stay at the InterContinental Wellington has started a bit of a trend that will continue with my next trip report titled “A stay at the Limes Hotel”. This trip report covers my stay between Friday the 22nd of October through to Sunday the 24th of October 2010. I usually stay in the Brisbane CBD

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A stay at the InterContinental Wellington

I recently posted some details on the InterContinental Wellington in my recent article titled My first InterContinental experience. Since then I decided to post a more detailed review of my stay that took place between Friday November 26th and Monday November 29th 2010. My trip to Wellington was planned quite a few months ago, but I wasn’t sure which hotel

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Travelling with an iPad

Frequent travellers would be familiar with the frustration of being required to remove your laptop from your bag for separate screening through airport security checkpoints. This is only made worse in some countries such as the United States where you must also remove other items such as toiletries, and your shoes. Fortunately the iPad is not classified as a laptop

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