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Getting VDSL hasn’t been quite as easy as I expected, let me tell you the story. To be fair, we aren’t a straightforward upgrade to VDSL. We can’t afford any downtime during business hours to swap modems etc as our phones are all VoIP running over our existing ADSL connection. But from a user’s point of [...]

On this twenty-third day of April 2010, I was duly admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. No storm troopers like at my fiancee’s graduation,  however there was someone in chainmail a few rows in front of me. Thanks UC, great feeling to finally be a graduate! Look forward to doing [...]

We sometimes use an extension for testing out modems, so rather than having to add a ’9′ to the start of the ISP phone number, it would be nice to be able to dial straight out. Here the ISP numbers start with 0867, so I thought why not create an outgoing dialing rule which doesn’t [...]

Just installed a new WSUS server and obviously got a little heavy handed on the auto-approve settings. Logged onto one of the student PCs today and found a big PowerShell folder in the start menu. Mind you, I would be suprised if they actually managed to do anything interesting with it.