NZ Tekonverse
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Rsync Backup System [7]: Current System
So it has proved desirable to return to making backups from a remote server connected over a network. This is currently a separate computer in our setup of computers, but we plan to integrate it into one of the existing computers (the one that is used mainly to play media) since we have determined the…
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Can The Covid Card Really Work?
In these Covid-19 pandemic days in NZ and worldwide, the powers that be have had to come up with effective ways to be able to trace infected people’s personal contacts lest they also turn out to be infected with the virus. It is entirely natural that some sort of technological solution should be sought, and…
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How To Get A Very Cheap “Landline” Phone Over The Internet
These days a lot of people are less inclined to have a traditional “landline” phone as Spark will still charge around $30-40 a month to keep providing the service which may be used relatively infrequently. As Chorus are planning to eventually turn off their old copper network in favour of fibre, everyone will sooner or…
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Bye Bye Blogger
This blog is now closing and moving to WordPress. This is due to Google’s arrogance in forcing everyone on Blogger to move to a bug ridden new user interface that they should have spent more time testing and fixing before they made it mandatory. Google has also been dictatorial in forcibly removing email notifications on…
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General computing update – week 34, 2020.
Since writing early July about about the need to replace the disks in mainpc I have finally progressed towards this stage by purchasing the first of two disks. As noted in the earlier post, this was prompted by an I/O failure of one of the disks that resulted in it dropping out of the RAID…