Category: Networking
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Canada domain name registry scam
I have been frustrated with this Domain Scam for a long time now. I have a few domain names, and I happen to be in Canada.  There is a company called “Domain Registry of Canada” that mails out official-looking envelopes (it looks like a government-issue brown windowed envelope) to everyone that has WHOIS information indicating they…
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Great VPS Experience
I have been using shared hosting from 1 & 1 for a few years now. No big complaints (except their domain management page is terrible) but I needed a bit more flexibility. I suppose shared hosting with its inherent limitations helps you develop a certain way, but I wanted a bit more. For one, I…
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Raspberry Pi – gone WiFi
I was using an older WRT54G as a client/bridge for my Raspberry Pi to my home network. Â It was working OK, except it would skip and stutter when playing back MythTV streams. I didn’t think a USB dongle would prevent that, but it would be nice to replace the complexity of the router with a…
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Local DNS on dd-wrt
My Linksys N400 started getting slow and completely stopped responding this morning. Â The only way I could get back into it was with a 30-second pin reset. I lost all of my DHCP reservations, of course, but those were a lot easier to restore than local DNS. I set my local search domain to “lan”…