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Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to everyone. Thank you for your support this year. Here's looking forward to 2011.
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Automatica v2

The redesign for this website is almost complete. The pages look similar to the old version however the entire site (rather than just the blog section) is now produced with Wordpress. The new site layout is based on the old...
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Ever seen a pwned home router?

I had to go and sort out a client the other day as their router (a Bigpond branded Netcomm unit for a home NextG connection) had, somehow, been compromised and dodgy DNS server addresses were being handed out via DHCP....
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Apple kills the Xserve?!?

Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Apple has announced that they are discontinuing the Xserve hardware platform. I know that they're selling a lot more Mac mini Servers, and that the Mac Pro is currently (in some aspects) a more powerful hardware platform,...
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Blinking Light on Brand-new Xserve

I've set up a few brand-new Xserves lately and two of them wouldn't stop blinking their System Identifier light. The System Identifier light would blink rapidly four times with a short pause and then repeat. Normally this happens if you...
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Cancel your White and Yellow Pages deliveries

If you can read this, you have a computer and access to the Internet. You therefore have probably not opened a Yellow or White Pages directory in a number of years. Go here and cancel the delivery of your paper...
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