If you have an unlimited 4g SIM from a UK network provider, you'll be able to watch NowTV, iPlayer, etc. directly from your mobile data. This is because you're tunneled back to the UK, and your traffic comes out of a UK IP address. If you have an Ubiquiti UniFi DreamMachine or DreamMachine Pro and a UniFi LTE device for 4G backup, you can create a traffic rule to use the UniFi LTE device for the iPlayer traffic, so it seemlessly works over your normal WiFi without the need for a VPN. To do thi…
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If you get the following message when trying to download an .iso disc image from IIS 7/7.5… 404 – File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. You just need to add the MIMI type. To do this, open IIS Manager, select the server on the left, open MIME Types… Then on the top right click Add > File name extension: .iso MIME Type: application/octet-stream The file should now download pr…
Virgin Media automatically updated the firmware on my Super Hub (Netgear VMDG480 router) recently. Since then I’ve noticed that the Session Data Downloaded value has been ridiculous, like they’re showing MB as GB or something… 28TB in 8 days, 3 of which my computer was off and I was away with my laptop… 2,560GB in 2 hours 17 minutes… Or how about 16GB in 26s… I’ve tweeted them about it, so I’ll update this post with their response if I get one.…
This is useful for testing the effect of slow connections on mobile apps in the development emulators. It uses IPFirewall rules to limit connections from your computer to the web (on TCP port 80) to 15KB per second (or any number you choose). Fire up the terminal and enter… sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 15KByte/s sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80 Just make sure you remember to remove the rule when you are done with it… sudo ipfw delete 1…
Our web servers were recently getting hit pretty hard by web crawler bots that simply ignore your Robots.txt file. We were getting hit especially hard by a bot called MJ12bot, which is supposed to be for a distributed search engine which they say lives in an alpha state at search.majestic12.co.uk (at the time of writing that is down). It seems they get people to run their SETI@Home like software that uses your power, CPU and bandwidth to help them build what they say is a distributed search engi…