Category Archives: Hackery

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Modified TanTanNoodles Flickr Gallery WordPress plugin

Posted on 20/11/2010 by Robert Hill

Photo of the day via a shortcode in modified TanTanNoodle Flickr Gallery wordpress plugin. [flickr datetaken=’2010-08-16′ size=’Medium’] Have you felt a burning need to post a picture of the day by pulling a single image from your flickr photostream? Ever … Continue reading →

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Fix Oracle dot Net…

Posted on 04/02/2009 by Robert Hill

Image by Getty Images via Daylife …is now up! FixOracle.Net in its first incarnation fixes the type of dodgy Oracle code we’re using on our current project, but since the ‘fixing engine’ is shared between the web site, the winform … Continue reading →

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SSH, Safe surfing and avoiding the wrath of the Net Filter

Posted on 15/08/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: Tunneling,SSH,Filter Avoidance,Security,Privacy Image via Wikipedia Many of my friends often wonder how to avoid their corporate firewalls, and secure their traffic against snooper. Well, its pretty easy to avoid the network traffic cops. People need a method to … Continue reading →

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Cure for slow Bitttorrent downloaded with Synology DS106e

Posted on 10/06/2008 by Robert Hill

  I’ve had the slow download problem for over 2 years now, and finally managed to fix it tonight. Fair enough, the upgrade to the latest firmware may have helped, but i was still getting less than 2Kbytes a second … Continue reading →

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Synology Subversion Update

Posted on 09/06/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: Synology,Subversion,DS106e,DS106j When I originally installed my Subversion server on the Synology box way back in March 07 the firmware on the box was pretty much OEM. I’d tweaked the firmware to allow telnet, but that was about the … Continue reading →

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Synology Bittorrent Problems?

Posted on 25/03/2007 by Robert Hill

I’ve had the Synology Box for a few months now, and up until last night, had absolutely 0 problems. Last night, I had a Bittorrent download complete, but the status in the Download Redirector was showing “Shared Folder not found”. … Continue reading →

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