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SNMP MIB Repository Available on GitHub
Over the last 20+ years of working as a Network Engineer and Architect and working on Open-Source software especially in the area of IT infrastructure monitoring and management, I have collected a reasonable set of MIBS files, I decided it would be great to share these, as sometimes they are hard to find. I decided…
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Apollo V for Sale
For sale is a 1986 steel Frame Apollo V, updated with Ultegra 10 speed, the frame, forks, seatpost, bar, stem and headset are all from the late 80’s. The frame is made by Kuwahara using ishiwata quad butted tubing, the frame has a 580mm top tube and seat tube. The top tube is the traditional parallel…
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The Public Fraser Island Weather Station
Some recent activity from a few volunteers and the Fraser Island Defenders Organisation has resulted in the first public weather station on Fraser Island, in Queensland Australia. Not only is this weather station public, but it is ONLINE, uploading data every 20 seconds! You can see all this at: Weather Observations Happy Valley The idea…
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Australian Company Offering European Cycling Tours
A new company Live Life Cycling has started up, offering European cycling tours, run by Christopher and Lyndsey Klem, they offer package and custom tours. Chris has a lifetime of cycling experience including experienced mechanic and a Level 1 cycling coach and Lyndsey is a trained chef. Between them and their staff they will…
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Rainforest Meets the Sound
The waterfall and rainforest in Doubtful Sound, Fiordland, Southland New Zealand, an amazing contrast of the ocean and rainforest in this cold climate.
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Tech Tip of the Day: Recovering Lost files on Windows.
Tech Tip of the Day. I helped my neighbours today, B had lost a file on her High School Laptop. Apparently they use the Cloud at High School now. Microsoft Cloud…….. I went back to the old ways, I opened a command prompt, I was in B’s home folder (/Users/studentid,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory). I then ran the command…
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Example – Depth of Field and Focal Length
Depth of field is greatly influenced by the focal length, using a long lens, 300mm for example, means that F5.6 is like F4.0. This photo shows this in action, the nice blurred background here is also aided by a good deal of depth in the subject as well, position yourself where you can get great…
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International System of Units (SI) prefixes.
I always find it hard to picture these BIG numbers in my head, so here they are in simple form with comma’s between the 0’s to give them a little length. yocto — 10^-24 — 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 zepto — 10^-21 — 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,001 atto — 10^-18 — 0.000,000,000,000,000,001 femto — 10^-15 — 0.000,000,000,000,001 pico — 10^-12 — 0.000,000,000,001 nano — 10^-9 — 0.000,000,001…