by Dean | Mar 26, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Security
So now that I have my test machine in place the first thing I want to do is setup secure remote access to my private network. This should also cover the ability to route my traffic via my home when out and about if necessary. (for example overseas, or public WiFi...
by Dean | Mar 22, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
So my web hosting is coming up for renewal shortly and I have been considering what options I have in terms of renewing it given the creation of My Book It. I need something fairly flexible and considered the option to migrate to a VPS type solution. But before I move...
by Dean | Feb 4, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
Turns out that the previous idea of how to do the permissions was going to end up being a lot and lot of work and probably terribly difficult to maintain and expand. So another way was needed. After a few days of thinking and playing with variable variables. (Which...
by Dean | Jan 22, 2014 | Crazy Idea, IT
The following can be used in a batch script to check if a system is 64Bit or 32Bit. @echo off :START REM SYSTEM Check IF EXIST %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\NUL GOTO :64BIT goto :32BIT :64BIT REM Run 64bit command goto :END :32BIT REM Run 32bit command goto :END :END Just add the...
by Dean | Sep 8, 2013 | Crazy Idea, Home Media, IT, Tutorial
I have embarked on setting up my very own home media centre. Over the next little while I will cover the setup and maintenance of the system from start to finish. The requirements of the system that I wanted are Must be cheap Must not use pay TV Needs to run on old...
by Dean | Aug 29, 2013 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT
Anyone who runs Combo fix knows that during the scan the machine is disconnected from the network. This is fine when using Combo fix onsite but it can be frustrating if you are running the application remotely as you have no idea if the application is running or...
