Author: Michael

Lets face it, wireless routers these days are seemingly inspired by spiders – they’re trying to pack as many features, antennas etc in as possible without focusing on what they need to the most – functionality. I’ve been noticing routers that try to pack as many antennas in as possible, they’re ugly and not strictly […]

So, I wanted to see how far I could get with installing something which is a tad obscure onto an otherwise Linux only VM host. So, why not use FreeBSD? My goal here was to deploy a FreeBSD server to Linode (aka Linux Node IIRC) and see if it could boot, if I could get SSH […]

First of all. If you’re new to this thread of Dell and their horrendous customer service, and repair failures then read Part 1 here. Jump to partial resolution (22/02/2016) I am continuing the topic here only since this may get long if Dell goes back on their word of a replacement following future problems with […]

I’ve been waiting for this moment for around 3 months – had a total of 16 bookings of different dates with promises to get UFB but in the end my ISP (2degrees) got a little sick of me waiting so they ensured I got an install at a date that worked for me. At first […]

Jump to update (15/01/2015) Jump to update (16/01/2015) I’m going to put it out there – I don’t normally write about companies on this level, I try to resolve issues in a civil manner however this has now been going on for far too long and feel the need to share it. Some companies simply […]