A great free tool from Radio Silence called Private eye allows you to see in real time everything they is talking on the network. You can filter by incoming, outgoing or by application. You can grab this fine piece of software (Mac only) from the site
As my last stock of Protein powder had ran out, I had a change of plan, it was time to try and put some mass on my puny body and for this we choose Optimum Nutrition – Serious Mass. Unlike the advert though, I did not receive my free creatine powder but I can live without that due to having loads left anyhow. I went for strawberry this time and was shocked by the sheer size of the bag when it arrived – 5.45KG bag in fact. I took some tonight mixed with my last scoop of Protein powder (Banana flavor) and it tasted just fine. The powder is fine and white and looks a lot like sugar in fact but once mixed it does turn red.
Optimum Nutrition Serious Mass is the ULTIMATE in weight gain formulas. Each serving of Serious Mass contains 1250 serious calories derived primarily from protein sparing complex carbohydrates and a high quality protein blend consisting of Whey Protein Concentrate, Calcium Caseinate, and Egg albumen. Creating Monohydrate, Glutamine, Choline and Inositol have been added to optimize each strength training workout while a complete vitamin and mineral profile insures your body gets the balanced nutrition it needs
The Axis M7001 Surveillance Kit is a two part device in that the actual M7001 part is a video encoder that run via PoE (power over ethernet) and can drive two streams, one been the supplied camera and the other is ANY CCTV type camera (BNC Connection). Due to the small size and the fact you do not need any power for the external camera, you can place the CCTV anywhere you need. It scales up to 704×576 for high quality video.
Recently I was in need of a box that would supply power to a device that only works via PoE (Power over Ethernet). In companies it is standard to have this built into the core switches as they provide Telephones powered by only the network cable and also the IP Camera’s dotted about and such. I did not need an entire switch with this built-in and did not want to spend a great deal of money. My Searches took me to the TP-Link TL-POE150S this been a simple enough device in that you plug in the power brick into one end along with your network cable feeding into the switch and from the other end you can plug in your device, in my case this was an IP Camera.
Recently I was in need of some CCTV for the home, I had a few choices on this, such as buying a complete kit for £300 which comes with 4 camera’s and a base unit to record everything. As I already have a Synology NAS Box which comes with Synology Surveillance Station, a feature to connect an IP camera and record 24/7, I thought why not buy myself a IP Camera? Looking through the list of supported camera’s, on that was listed was FOSCAM. The next stage was to figure out how much to spend and which one to buy.
Recently after fixing (or failing to) the last laptop, the person asked me to get him a caddy to house the 2.5″ sata drive so he could at least access all of his data, my goal then was to spend the least amount while still providing a half decent case. The problem with most of the online stores was the fact that once you added the item to your basket, even though it was very cheap, the price doubled with the postage added on. After some searching I came across Kenable and they had a 2.5″ sata enclose for £3.69 the postage was as low as £1.99 using royal mail. I in fact ordered two of these, one for myself as I have some spare 160GIG sata drives hanging about.
I work in computers and quite often people come to me with computers to fix. You can understand why they do this due to the fact if they took it to a shop, they would be charged a good chunk of money. For some time now I have been told people “I do not fix computers” outside of work and for good reason, quite often people wanted to pay the lowest value for the most amount of work. Recently I took on a laptop to fix, a Compaq CQ61, maybe I felt sorry for the guy and maybe I thought it was an easy fix – how wrong I was.
