My ‘mugshot’ for this year is the British Trimphone. The Trimphone was designed by Martyn Rowlands for STC as a luxury telephone that the GPO could rent to its customers at a premium. It had an innovative electronic ringer (at a time when phones still housed mechanical bells), and a dial that glowed at night …
I created a new SfB “Site” in the greiginsydney Lab during the week for some DR testing. For this I built two new servers, both running Server 2016. One was to be a Front-End, with the other an Edge. The Front-End joined the domain OK and was easily managed from my desktop, but the Edge …
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If you’re at all familiar with the goings-on around greiginsydney.com it probably won’t come as an enormous surprise to learn that I’ve had a fascination with telephones since my childhood.
Those of you with a passable grasp of southern hemisphere geography will have by now figured out that the Greiginsydney juggernaut is based in a small town on the eastern seaboard of Australia, famed for its harbour, impressive tin bridge, & a 50-year old Opera House modelled on the peel of an orange. To locals …
I’ve apparently had a fascination for all things electrical and electronic since an early age. So the story goes, I managed to jam some keys in a power-point aged about 3, apparently blackening all around it but leaving me unharmed. In my teenage years I knew to scream out “I’m OK” if – alright, when …
Some of my customers get a bit touchy about IP addresses leaving their corporate environment, so they need to be removed before any documents see the outside world. I’ve already added this as a feature in my script that turns a Sonus gateway backup into a DOCX and PDF. Occasionally I need to send a …
No, blog posts don’t just happen. MOST of the time they’re lovingly planned and conceived then eventually unleashed upon the world, although occasionally one gets away and I find it’s well in gestation before I’ve even realised it. Still, regardless of the thought-processes and planning, there’s often a lot goes into a blog post and …
My ‘mugshot’ for 2015 is the wonderfully kitsch “Ericofon”. In some markets it’s known as the “Cobra” telephone. The Ericofon was introduced into Australia around 1963 as an alternative to the standard 800-series table phone. Their insides were fully imported from Sweden and the cases moulded locally, the phones then assembled in Ericsson’s Broadmeadows factory …
January 2014 has been quite a significant month here. Forgive me for getting all nostalgic for the “good old days” and reminiscing a bit – it’s not without due cause. Thirty years ago this month, fresh out of school and barely a man (I’d only just turned 18), I joined what was Telecom Australia (nee …
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Here’s a shameless re-post of someone else’s great work. I’m just adding some references to Arduino and Clipsal C-Gate, Toolkit and PACA in the hope that a search engine will help guide others in similar circumstances to the fix. Arduino Driver I’m tinkering with a little Lync project to add a real-world “telemetry-style” interface to …
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