In this post we'll look at setting up a dual router 1GB/s home network using the TL-WR1043ND routers, both with DD-WRT software.  DD-WRT is one of the documented projects and it goes a long way in making the product very stable and easy to work with. The routers are also capable of Wireless N connections […]

Overview: HTPC / Home Backup: MDADM, RAID6, LVM, XFS, CIFS and NFS In this post we'll take a look at setting up a 4TB storage, HTPC, and active backup using basic components that can be bought from the local PC store and freely available software.   Here I set out to try and consolidate my storage […]

The VLC player is rumoured to be one of the best players to day for playing many different formats including mts and m2ts proprietary SONY formats. (Which just so happens to be the format of my Camcorder movies)  This is the way my camcorder has been saving them in and to date, there are few […]

Today I stumbled upon an interesting Perl issue that was causing some random printout in my code then what I expected.  In fact, I’ve used the same sprintf /regular expression in another part  following the script I was writing but it seamed to work just fine there.  The issue was that the script printed two […]

PERL REFERENCE / CHEAT SHEET Handy, searchable Perl reference guide for both beginners and intermediate Perl developers.  This is something of a reference and a tutorial combined into one.  If you like, don’t forget to post a comment. CONTENTS Assignment Operators Operators, Precedence, Example and Associativity Numeric Literals Bitwise Operator Result Table String Literals Variables […]