Author: KingJ

Improving Mobile Broadband Speed 0

Improving Mobile Broadband Speed

I recently got mobile broadband from Voadafone UK (3GB/mo for £15/mo). Now, while they advertise “upto” 7.2mbit/sec, I appreciate that you will never recieve it – the same with Wireless Networks, you never receive 54mbit/sec, even right by the WiFi point you will probably get just 30mbit/sec at most. Anyway, you should expect to get around 2mbit/sec from your mobile...

Changing the php.ini without access 1

Changing the php.ini without access

Recently, I needed to turn on magic quotes for a customer on our web hosting. Now, our web hosting is not actually hosted by me, rather I purchase a reseller package. This allows me to offer cPanel access without having to spend an absolute fortune on it. However, it means I don’t have access to the php.ini and hence can’t...

Guitar Hero 3 0

Guitar Hero 3

It rocks. I’ll write more when i’ve got some spare time in which i’m not playing it…

Secondary MX 0

Secondary MX

I run my own home mailserver for two reasons, because I enjoy setting up systems and because I can. However, having just 1 mailserver introduces some problems. While according to the RFCs, sending servers are to keep sending failed mail for some time, they often dont. Consequently, if my server goes offline, loss of internet, reboot etc, I often loose...

Google Checkout 0

Google Checkout

Update: I’m no longer recommending Google Checkout after they raised their fees to be equal to that of PayPal. Google’s only real advantage was their low transaction rates, now that it’s at parity it does not make sense to continue using them. See here for more information. I leave the article below for referrence on what was once a great...