This is the voyage my ancestors took to South Africa on the mission ship Kandaze.
Wednesday 06 May 2009
The voyage of the Kandaze
Sunday 03 May 2009
High speed token-ring
Although Madge Networks has faded from memory, and exists really only as a Wikipedia enrty, there are still items on ebay! Like the HSTR blade from the Ringswitch.
If there are still live installations, send in your pics!
Saturday 02 May 2009
Saffer News
Not to worry! The national dish is Nandos!
Has he finally discovered that latex is better than a shower (or am I thinking about the wrong type of protection!)
Boerewors makes it to the front page!
We call it soccer and not football. I wonder if we'll ever change?The final resting place of an ex Saffer jet
An interesting story about the final resting place on an ex Saffer jet in Wired. Now this is a TREE HOUSE!Friday 01 May 2009
Not your ordinary flavour of Ketchup
In this neck of the Kalahari we use the term tomato sauce instead of Ketchup. At home I use Tomato, a firmware replacement for the Linksys WRT54GL. It just wouldn't be the same if it was called Ketchup.
I use the firmware with a iBurst modem and OpenDNS. The iBurst modem is connected to the WAN port of the WRT54GL. The firmware is a free download and open source. It has some nifty features.
It has a real time bandwidth monitor. Great to see what download speeds you are achieving. Most of the day I have a tab in Firefox that is logged into Tomato, which allows we to see the status of the network and connection. It also provides averages and peaks!
It has a 24 hour graph. This will allow you to view the internet usage pattern in past day.
It can mount an external storage device, which you can use to display a web page and store historical information. Here Tomato records the daily internet usage, which easily allows you to manage your cap. You can look at your daily, weekly or monthly usage. The firmware allows you to select a time server which keeps the clocl and data synchronized precisely.
It also provides QoS. This allows you to browse the web while email large files and not impacting your browser performance. Neat!
And Tomato supports OpenDNS! The firmware will manage your IP address and automatically update OpenDNS with your IP address. This will allow OpenDNS to provide url filtering. One of the features is to block suspicious activity related to the Conflicker worm. It also blocks access automatically to phishing sites, improving the security of online banking.
It can mount an external storage device, which you can use to display a web page and store historical information. Here Tomato records the daily internet usage, which easily allows you to manage your cap. You can look at your daily, weekly or monthly usage. The firmware allows you to select a time server which keeps the clocl and data synchronized precisely.
It also provides QoS. This allows you to browse the web while email large files and not impacting your browser performance. Neat!
And Tomato supports OpenDNS! The firmware will manage your IP address and automatically update OpenDNS with your IP address. This will allow OpenDNS to provide url filtering. One of the features is to block suspicious activity related to the Conflicker worm. It also blocks access automatically to phishing sites, improving the security of online banking.
It can also block all those annoying pop ups, prevent access to porn or any other defined category. The best thing is OpenDNS is free!
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