350Z Hi-fi Install

When we acquired the 2004 350Z, it had a low quality hi-fi installed in it. The FM radio broadcast band in Japan is 76-90 MHz Which misses a large portion of the New Zealand stations. It's been a few years since I performed a car hi-fi installation, so I lent on some friends. Specifically Matthew … Continue reading →

Installation and Hardening of Debian Web Server

These are the steps I took to set-up and harden a Debian web server before being placed into a DMZ and undergoing additional hardening before opening the port from the WWW to it. Most of the steps below are fairly simple to do, and in doing so, remove a good portion of the low hanging fruit for … Continue reading →

Procurement & Config of Sun Fire V240 & ALOM

This is the sequence of events I took to prepare a Sun Fire V240 for hosting pfSense which is a free and open source FreeBSD based enterprise grade routing solution for a client of mine. Recently I was tasked with setting up a network with what I considered to be enterprise grade hardware and … Continue reading →

Automating Specification by Example for .NET Web Applications

If you or your organisation: are/is constrained to running your .NET tests (unit, acceptance) on-site rather than in the cloud would like some guidance on how to set-up Continuous Integration read on. Introduction Purpose Remember, an acceptance test system as a tool is only as good … Continue reading →

Reassembly of the Eee PC 901

This is a follow on from "Upgrade Linux Eee PC 901 4GB SSD" As usual, this is just the previous section but in reverse. Hopefully you won't have any screws left when it's back together. Now the reassembly is just as hard if not harder. You have to be as careful as possible not to put … Continue reading →

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