The Curious Engineer

RevK®'s ramblings

2009–2010

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2010 249

December 2010

  1. Brave and trusting staff
  2. Everything you wanted to know about PPPoE but were afraid to ask
  3. Test one unknown at a time
  4. Getting there
  5. Ho Ho Horde!
  6. Thin end of the wedge
  7. For the horde!
  8. Twit
  9. Copyright
  10. Cunning plan
  11. Cool TV
  12. Bah, humbug!
  13. Make life difficult, or what!
  14. Practical experiences with IPv6
  15. Soul of a new machine
  16. In game pocket money?!
  17. Summer time all year? WTF?
  18. The end is nigh!
  19. Government meddling
  20. Grr, MPs with no clue

November 2010

  1. Where did the internet all go so quickly?
  2. LHR arrivals borked
  3. Time for a new DNS system?
  4. Don't use Nominet .uk domains any more?
  5. 3D WoW?
  6. 3D
  7. Company bike
  8. Two speed internet
  9. NAT Hit Squad
  10. IPv6 and Trading Standards
  11. Saturday
  12. Twits, again
  13. Stupid software
  14. Our favourite telco at it again
  15. Twits
  16. Yes NAT is evil
  17. Toast
  18. DEA under attack!
  19. RevK TNG
  20. Marmite XO
  21. Personal information
  22. Interflora are incompetant!

October 2010

  1. Namespaces
  2. How to get ripped off in Vegas
  3. XML for dummies
  4. Fun in Vegas
  5. I never had a big brother and don't want one now
  6. Really unimpressed with Bellagio now
  7. IPv6 vs NAT
  8. Broken IPv6
  9. Not impressed with Belagio, Vegas
  10. Sticking to IPv4
  11. Kick starting IPv6
  12. Technology testing ground?
  13. Bastards!
  14. Can I ask a question ... ?
  15. Your learn something every day - well Mon/Wed/Fri
  16. XKCD/806 compliance
  17. Current affairs
  18. WOW broke
  19. Overtake
  20. Turning up the wick a bit
  21. How to break a network
  22. It just works!
  23. I can ping my iPad
  24. Hiding keys
  25. Internet HD

September 2010

  1. MYSQL madness
  2. Dude! where's my SIM
  3. Copyright
  4. acs:law
  5. Data protection
  6. Double bluff
  7. /home less
  8. Dealing with telcos
  9. Air con
  10. Coding coding coding
  11. Cyclists Dismount
  12. New office
  13. WoW in wood
  14. RADIUS relay - techie question
  15. Cyclists Dismount
  16. NAT hell
  17. eCar are, in my humble opinion, total dickheads
  18. DEA gets worse
  19. Stalkers
  20. Interesting market opportunity for 09 numbers
  21. Alternative Dispute Resolution, a broken system
  22. Will it bank?
  23. UKNOF17 Edinburgh
  24. Structured fail
  25. Fast...

August 2010

  1. Sky TV fail!
  2. Safe
  3. Err, what can I say
  4. Well, some things work
  5. Fed up
  6. Pen knifes and memory sticks
  7. Am I missing something (leases and lawyers)
  8. How it should be done?
  9. Notedpad Document
  10. Making a resilient network
  11. Yes, I do have real work to do
  12. Antihistamines
  13. Kicking myself
  14. Gone loopy
  15. WoW copyright
  16. Imelt
  17. No shame!
  18. valgrind
  19. Car

July 2010

  1. WoW irc
  2. WoW BT
  3. iPassed
  4. Eye-Fi and Mi-Fi just work
  5. iCracked
  6. Way to look like scammers? (warehouseexpress.com)
  7. Stupid alarm systems
  8. Delete the photo?
  9. How to make progress?
  10. Lets blame the customer
  11. Premium rate SMS
  12. PRS gone mad?
  13. Est 1620?
  14. How to write XML?
  15. Geek Radar
  16. Premier Inn useless web site
  17. Hmm, no junk calls
  18. Universally hated
  19. Odeon making you pay for 3D glasses
  20. Junk calls and legality
  21. What a moron...
  22. Something has to be done
  23. How not to make a fault management system
  24. Crazy lady's house
  25. iPhone with normal size SIM?
  26. Rights
  27. NAT is evil (still), NAT & SIP
  28. The missing iPad sensor
  29. Sorry
  30. "Pure Solutions" are one of the phone spammers
  31. How not to fix a problem

June 2010

  1. Bad call
  2. Refusing to fix faults
  3. OK iPads are cool
  4. Chip & signature cards - Currys are plonkers
  5. Arrrg! Some times phone calls don't work
  6. Blog post 28
  7. Ooops
  8. Mad lady's house
  9. Hold on
  10. Learning the hard way...
  11. Sky box is happy
  12. OK, sorry
  13. Fun day
  14. Hold music
  15. Why can't people use BACS correctly
  16. Fettling
  17. One SIP at a time
  18. Visit from the crazy lady
  19. Junk calls
  20. Blog post
  21. New skin
  22. Insisting on watching in low def
  23. Drip drip dip
  24. And I was doing so well
  25. Nggggg

May 2010

  1. How did I miss that
  2. DEA ICOP
  3. You don't need a meat cleaver
  4. Pint to line: What line?
  5. Data centres not to use "green" power
  6. School dinner ladies
  7. The IP address scam?
  8. Taking the piss
  9. I am really getting sick of junk calls
  10. Anal Probing

April 2010

  1. Reading Beer Festival
  2. Latest loop hole
  3. Expert witness
  4. ISPs did not cause this
  5. Don't secure your wifi!!!
  6. Digital Economy Act
  7. Elven safety
  8. Another talk
  9. Film
  10. Hmm
  11. Digital Economy Act
  12. Ding
  13. Sad day
  14. O/S Data
  15. Digital Economy Bill
  16. Why no rants?

March 2010

  1. Black holes?
  2. Changing clocks
  3. School anti-wikipedia dogma
  4. All hail the reverend
  5. They are taxing air now!!!
  6. Safety information
  7. Ethernet to the premises
  8. Attacking our favorite telco with a huge sword?
  9. OFCOM can't even write their own phone number correctly
  10. Working with our favourite telco
  11. Address from PO Box
  12. Icmpv6
  13. I hate being ill
  14. Arrrg, cross site scripting security
  15. Coding
  16. Virgin offer
  17. Clampers reply
  18. Lost without email
  19. NAT is evil

February 2010

  1. Is BOGOF legal?
  2. Bandwidth theft
  3. Shareholder
  4. What are they up to?
  5. I did not know tattooists did home visits
  6. WoW economics
  7. A sign for a sign
  8. Fighting clamping companies
  9. Dos
  10. Flight to nowhere
  11. Shame it did not go to court
  12. More tesco madness
  13. VBA Ltd not PCI compliant!
  14. Can't have FTTC - you need a home hub
  15. Why can't people just call or email what you say?

January 2010

  1. Bounty offered - who are "Callvalue"?
  2. This should be interesting
  3. Abbey encouraging people to pay mortgage late
  4. Almost as bad as "unlimited'... FREE!
  5. Computer says no.
  6. Distance Selling Directive
  7. Grrr - who uses faxes still FFS
  8. The new word "Unlimited*"
  9. BT tower
  10. SFI: Meet in the middle
  11. Sued for clearing your driveway/path
  12. Ncis
  13. Www
  14. Don't upload more than you download!?!?
  15. What, can't get to the office?
  16. Liquid Water
  17. Is it criminal fraud
  18. And people find our statements confusing
  19. Liquid Calcium
  20. Hybrid
  21. The dreaded tie pair modification
  22. Happy New Year

2009 112

December 2009

  1. Are banks getting worse?
  2. Not why we send freepost envelopes
  3. Nda
  4. Can't move
  5. Levitation
  6. Christmas Wrapping
  7. Consumer electronics
  8. Way to spell
  9. Lots of snow
  10. Way to design a heating system
  11. DOn't you love nice clear error messages
  12. WTF are they up to now?
  13. Nothing broke
  14. Arrrrrg!
  15. Free popcorn at Odeon?
  16. Wow! latency
  17. A moment's peace?
  18. Tescos being arses again
  19. 90% population getting 2M by 2017
  20. Broadband tax
  21. They only have 2 things to do
  22. Gprs
  23. Whine
  24. On the radio
  25. date command madness
  26. Flashing lights
  27. Slate
  28. na na na na na na na na na na²
  29. Standby
  30. Sky
  31. Of course I no longer want Sky HD ?!
  32. Being a meany

November 2009

  1. Are the lights on?
  2. Do people still use photocopiers?
  3. "Special" Engineers
  4. Do they not teach maths in school any more?
  5. Being rude to a customer?
  6. One hour optical lab, my arse
  7. How not to email
  8. Duplex mismatch
  9. Ignorance is bliss...
  10. Woof
  11. Low def
  12. Stupidity tax?
  13. Toilet Engaged
  14. No response from ISP!
  15. A game played by men with strange shaped balls
  16. Novatech come good
  17. Arrg punycode
  18. na na na na na na na na na na

October 2009

  1. When is 40 hours not 40 hours
  2. Why 3 strikes
  3. OK WTF???
  4. Y2.038K bug maybe?
  5. Power warning!
  6. Lots of monkeys with typewriters
  7. WoW, that's loud
  8. Time's change
  9. Industry Standard
  10. May contain nuts
  11. Food labels
  12. Kids and tech support
  13. Arrrg! Orange
  14. Why do people find it hard to send bills?!?!
  15. What, no Dilbert?
  16. Tescos stealing from a customer
  17. Recycling
  18. Low definition TV
  19. Why no rants?
  20. You gotta love camera phones
  21. Grrr, adverts
  22. Banning anti-virus code?
  23. Teenager's take on IPv6
  24. Call themselves a communications company
  25. If google can do it so can I
  26. How not to make a web site
  27. Sky eco hype?
  28. Making your own rules
  29. New tariffs
  30. Back to reality

September 2009

  1. We're too efficient?
  2. Airport WiFi!
  3. Card fraud protection is not protecting ME
  4. What I really want from a bank!
  5. Back to work soon :-(
  6. Lions and Tigers and Bears
  7. Moving goal posts
  8. Hotels
  9. Pissed off
  10. Marketing!
  11. 72
  12. Thermostats
  13. Police with no clue about email?
  14. Why can't people use their domains
  15. It is not +44 (0)207 123 4567, it is +44 20 7123 4567
  16. Watchdog?
  17. Holiday mood
  18. Is 600Kb/s good enough for broadband?
  19. New URL for my blog www.me.uk
  20. Money making scam :-)
  21. Arseholes
  22. The basics of broadband fault diagnosis
  23. Arrrg - google is broken
  24. What is going on
  25. Profitting from faults
  26. 7 days to go
  27. Phew
  28. The good guys
  29. Arrrrg
  30. Another long day
  31. Never thought it would happen
  32. My own opinion...

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