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Gulf region routing / connectivity. It has been several months since my last post, time to add something new, albeit something small! Busy Bittorrent Sync Tutorial. I’m always creating HTML5 based documents but can never remember the exact syntax, so here’s a base template so I don’t have to keep Googling it! Hopefully somebody will find it to be a useful reference! Doctype html html head title Title /title meta charset=”utf-8″ / /head body /body /html. Flights and Formula 1. Rant]Upon calling Sky back I...

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Broadband Woes - Marty's Musings

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The short version of the engineer visit was a line fault was found and repaired and the line should be back to speed within 24 hours, whereas in reality a fault may have been found and fixed but the line definitely didn’t get back up to speed. Fast forward three weeks of me being busy and I decided to call Sky again who again ran through the usual steps before booking an engineer visit. I spent a few hours surfing using a 3G USB modem, which at the best of times can be rather slow (usually only 2mbps!

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More Broadband Frustrations - Marty's Musings

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I got a voicemail from a lady at Sky today, she said she had heard back from the engineer that visited on Saturday and said she was aware that the issue is resolved. Instantly I thought to myself “if only”, time to turn on the rant tags! I may as well call Sky and downgrade to the regular fibre package, currently I’m receiving almost exactly the maximum speed for the lower package, what is advertised as an 80/20 package and estimated to be lower at 60/20 is actually performing at 40/7.[/Rant].

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Random Archives - Marty's Musings

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This blog fell badly into neglect, the last proper post was 14 months ago, I felt that since my Mum has set such a good example keeping her blog regularly updated I should follow the good example! I recently rented a second dedicated server and this time ran with nginx. I’ve been amazed at how quick it is compared to my old Apache2 setup, setting up vhosts was just as easy as Apache and getting my 10 sites (personal friends) online was a quick and relatively pain free process! Join 3 other subscribers.

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Gulf region routing / connectivity - Marty's Musings

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Gulf region routing / connectivity. It’s been a while since my last post, as usual. I’m currently sat in my room at my parents’ place in Doha, Qatar, escaping the. Why is all of that related to routing/connectivity in this region? All of that makes me wonder what is connectivity like between countries in the region? What route would packets of data take should my father Skype his colleagues in Dubai instead? I’ve decided to look into who the local ISP Ooredoo. My strategy here is as follows:. I’m s...

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HTML5 document structure - Marty's Musings

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I’m always creating HTML5 based documents but can never remember the exact syntax, so here’s a base template so I don’t have to keep Googling it! Hopefully somebody will find it to be a useful reference. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 3 other subscribers. Follow me on Twitter. Proudly powered by WordPress. Theme: Serene by Elegant Themes.

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Formula 1 Archives - Marty's Musings

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Flights and Formula 1. During the process of looking for flights Qatar Airways was clearly the cheapest, however I stumbled upon something strange,… read more. I’m a big Formula 1 fan thanks to my Dad, I love both all the action on the track and the romance of having races all around the world. A while ago I had a coupon code for a cheap domain name, I thought to myself what possible domain name could I buy that I could find a purpose for? Join 3 other subscribers. Follow me on Twitter.

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Travel diary - Marty's Musings

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Since my last post about booking flights on Qatar Airways for October my travel plans for this year have increased somewhat, I’ve booked a few more trips, today’s being Berlin in a month’s time. The plan has gone from 2 trips to 5 trips (4 of which are booked). The itinerary now stands at:. Doha Dubai, June – Qatar Airways. Berlin, June – British Airways. San Francisco, July – TBC. Spa-Francorchamps, August – Brussels Airlines. Doha Abu Dhabi, October – Qatar Airways. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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International SSH Brute Forcing - Marty's Musings

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International SSH Brute Forcing. Technology is a fascinating part of modern life, day-to-day we use it in various different ways from smartphones to credit/debit cards to kitchen gadgets, almost everything we do somehow involves tech in some fashion or another. One thing that is fundamental to a large proportion of developed countries is the Internet (as proven in my previous post! On the two dedicated servers I run I have Fail2Ban. Setup with a small project I started plugged-in to it, enter Fail2Ban-Geo.