So… some of you may have already seen this, if you didn’t then, here it is its pretty cool, it works… but has one caveat… Its a TEMPORARY unlock… i.e. it will unlock your phone sure, but once your TMSI (Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity) is refreshed, you will have to repeat the process again… in [...]

I’ve been playing around with some IDN’s and TLD’s and DNS etc…. i’ve realised you can create IDN (punycode) subdomains to any existing domain, in addition, i’ve created my own TLD, and setup a DNS server that works for this purpose. If anyone would like an IDN or a custom TLD, get in touch! From [...]

Who knew translating from German > German would be so fun!? I recently reminded myself of a great “google hack” during a lecture today on International Computing. (hello to anyone from there who is reading this!) In honour of internationalisation Google seem to have taken it upon themselves to make the CPU voices beatbox for [...]

Following on from my popular Asus S101 mod, Look what I just got my hands on: ION2 Powered Dual Core Atom Net-top all I can say is… preliminary results look very good, with very nice performance. Expect a full review and tutorial soon. =)

Many people already know that the Samsung green drives have a bug in the firmware that may cause data loss, Samsung have created a patch that you need to create a bootable floppy disk along and drag in their file, if like me you don’t have a floppy disk drive & don’t want to mess [...]

Hi everyone! I keep getting lots of emails from people asking where they can buy xyz to complete the tutorials and try out some of the things listed on CaptainGeek, well after I kept emailing people the same links i had a thought, why not setup an amazon affiliate store. Basically, i’ve setup a small [...]

Ever wanted to be able to access the shared libraries from your home… when you are away from home? I do, since I started to use FreeNAS with Firefly iTunes/DAAP media server this is exactly what i want… I’m often away from home, and always wanting to access my media library from within iTunes… Bonjour [...]

Recently i had a thought… Most of my machines are sitting redundant and have upto 4 drives in each… without unscrewing every single one of out of my rack… i want to utilise all of that space into one giant zpool using ZFS. Imagine combining the drive space resources of 10 computers into 1 giant [...]

Have you seen the Drobo box? it’s a SAN that allows you to create giant volumes and hot swap out hard drives at will with failure tolerance… bad news, is that it costs close to £1000 even without the drives, i’ll explain how to make a better one… for free! =). ZFS (Zettabyte Filing System) [...]

As you all know, i’m a big fan of virtualisation, however when i purchased my Sony Vaio VGN-FW31E the thing that highly disappointed me was that the VT-x extensions were disabled for the CPU, and there was no option in the BIOS to enable them, however i knew the CPU inside this laptop did indeed [...]