Ben's Randomness

Author: Ben

  • A View Into The (Shitty) Past

    So after remembering/discovering that I still have my old sites database stored in SQL on here, I’ve been pondering how/if I should retro post all of this stuff into wordpress or not. If it wasn’t for the fact There’s like 60 posts to do, I’d do it manually. So I’m going to write some kind […]

  • How to overinstall a home network

    So due to our house being kinda… revamped slightly, with some new central heating, kitchen bathroom and such, I had to refit my network solution upstairs as what I had was going to be in the way of the new boiler that was going upstairs. This meant I had to relocate a lot of my […]

  • For Anyone Who’s Sad Enough To Be Interested…

    There appears to be a bug in phpsysinfo on FreeBSD 8.1, where it formats the network interfaces section wrong, due to a change in how netstat operates; it seems they’ve changed the amount of columns and spacing with “netstat -nibd”, which is how phpsysinfo gets its networking info. I thought at first it was just […]

  • Even more useless electrics…ish.

    So laying around I have one of my old laptops; a Thinkpad T23. Now I’d added wireless to this like 4 years ago using a mini-pci card, only cause I was using some shitty antennas, the signal was shite. Even in the same room as the AP I was getting pretty much no signal. So […]

  • I am the world’s worst electrician.

    So as some of you may/may not know, I rigged up a switch (pretty poorly rigged up) to control the LEDs on the front of my case. Being a slight insomniac sometimes, I can’t stand any form of LEDs being on at night; I’ve even gone around my room taping up those I don’t need. […]