There’s Nothing New in IT
Ok, I’ll admit the headline might be a bit much. Especially as we’re now in a world where automation is king (really, stop hand cranking stuff!) and mobile devices are everywhere. However, when you’ve...
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Making Debian Play Nice with 802.1x and User VLAN Switching
As you could probably guess from previous posts, I’m currently working on a project that will see the deployment of 802.1x on the wired network. The ultimate aim would be to authenticate both the...
Generating FM MPX on a Raspberry Pi 3
It’s been possible to turn your Raspberry Pi into a little FM transmitter for quite a while now. Download the right software, attach a wire to the GPIO pin in and you’re broadcasting a...
What’s the story on webRTC?
Ask some people, and they’ll claim webRTC isn’t making great inroads. In fact, a podcast I heard recently triggered me to actually write this article. After all, it’s a technology that’s helping change a...
Wired 802.1x on OS X
Getting 802.1x going on OS X for wired networks is not something that should be particularly difficult. In fact, when you connect the machine to the network, you’ll get a little popup window asking...
TTL for Now
It’s always the little things that get you in technology. I’ve seen instances of stations taken off air by a simple fuse blowing. You also wouldn’t believe the level of embarrassment that can come...
SIP-ing Through the Firewall
Here’s an odd puzzle for you. Fire up a SIP soft-phone and connect it to an external provider. Dial a number and you can make a call successfully. Doesn’t sound particularly unusual. Now fire...
Shared Nothing Hyper-V Infrastructure
The “standard” way to build a VM farm involves centralised storage, usually some form of SAN, with a number of compute nodes. The result is an infrastructure that looks something like this: I’ll admit...
WDS for Windows and Linux
Where I work is very much a Windows shop. Well, there’s also almost 2000 OS X laptops to worry about. However, most of the infrastructure we operate is built around Windows. Active Directory provides...
Calling in the Foreman
For what feels like a really long time now, configuration management systems such as Puppet have been the norm. Even in a small charity I do work for I’ve had it deployed for managing...