Author Archives: The Elite Geek

Wild IT holding on tight?

Wild Internet and Telecom are a young ISP / junior telco, offering services at cost + a small few dollars. Some pointers that have kept me away from Wild Telecom are as follows: Timothy Bolot, the Manager / Creator of … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Dynamic Image Generation with PHP

I came across a little issue lately. I wanted to be able to generate images, dynamically. I needed it to be done with PHP, and I needed it to be able to accept differing data (hence dynamic). Where to turn? … Continue reading

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Powering the planet

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the planet, global warming, and greenhouse gases, so on about the damage power plants alone are doing to our planet. What damage exactly do current power operations do to the planet? 1. … Continue reading

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A creative use for AJAX, no browser required.

I’ve been developing for the web for a while now, and many technologies fly by. First there was the ASP.NET craze. Some say it’s an improvement on ASP, others say its not worth the hassle. I couldn’t really care about … Continue reading

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Getting it done ‘right’

It seems lately (and last year), that there are some people in this world that can’t seem to do much right at all. I’m not about to hassle everyone on a single mistake, hey, they happen, I make mistakes, others … Continue reading

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Moving – its not easy

When you have a house load of stuff to move, and a short time frame (as in 24 hours), you generally get a lot more proactive. I’m packing as I write this blog post (I wish). We change address tomorrow. … Continue reading

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Netspace, moving, and a contract?

Ok, having Broadband for a while now and moving around this country a fair bit as well, I understand the processes involved with Telstra, Moving, and ADSL connections. Since I was born, through to now, I’ve lived in many places, … Continue reading

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100% Free Money. Grab some today.

You can earn some FREE CASH. All you have to do is visit this website, and read this message here: OzVoIPStatus VoIP Monitoring. The offer is simply, send an email, or use the contact us page, and you could earn … Continue reading

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Moving, Mountain Climbing and Telstra

How on earth did I put those three words in the title? Fux me. Anyway, when you move and you have a Telstra Wholesale supplied ADSL service, doesn’t it make more sense to move every service the customer has at … Continue reading

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Dos and Don’ts of Linux

I got myself a dedicated server recently. Was certainly good. However, since getting the server, we’ve had Hard Drive issues. The first drive, a SATA drive, wouldn’t install with the OS we planned to use. So we bailed on that … Continue reading

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Peaceful Sanity: Live above and below a bowling alley?

We live in a block of flats. We are the top most flat, in a 2 storey block. We have the full top floor, below us, are 2 flats, one on the left, one on the right, split near the … Continue reading

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Southern Cross Cable Upgrades

Southern Cross Cables is implementing an idea Simon Hackett, MD of Internode, has been pushing Telstra to for years now. The method suggested takes one fibre optic cable, and changes the maximum wavelengths from 16 to 40 per cable. Which … Continue reading

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My Blog

Welcome. I did start this domain nearly a year ago, but never ended up finishing doing any of the several plans I had for it. I decided that I needed a blog. But not one of those MySpace or MSN … Continue reading

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