my site is now on HTTPS

With all the government monitoring snoopers charters and open wifi access etc. I have SSLed my site using https://letsencrypt.org/

at-least now communication between my site and your browser will be safe. Not that I collect sensitive information. still they can\’t see the what is on the packets. ISP\’s still have to log what websites you visit no way to trick, other than to use a vpn out to some other countries but it is all a hassle.

any way I\’m not forcing the https yet so if you not on secure connection (green padlock icon on the browser) please use this link https://www.din100.net

State of outsoursed IT companies and IT services companies, IT support jobs

Things must be getting desperate for Outsourced IT support companies, as I read few of their \”recommendation\”. some of them are out right lie or some things was only true in 1990s.

They still holding on to the old model where get a client make money by selling few service of their own and resell other services and make commission on the services they sell. and have retainer for the support.

Things are changing all the IT infrastructures are now going as a services model. which doesn\’t really require a IT companies to do much. every things is done by the large companies who providing that services. all you need is some one to setup the local services and monitor them but that doesn\’t require paying a company a retainer or use their support as you can call the companies direct and they will fix the issues directly.

My advice if you running a business dont waste your money on IT companies. get some independent IT consultants or get your self a IT managers who understand this things who dont resell any one service. get them to recommend few providers and read the reviews for each and select their services based on the cost or to your business need.

I think outsourced IT companies days are numbered

Home WIFI and internet Security with Ubiquiti (UBTN) products

price Ubiquiti devices are so good it\’s even less than the some of the home routers.

I went with EdgeRouter Lite
and went with 1 access point for now which is Unifi-AP-AC-LR with Broadbandbuyer I got 3 year free cloud controller access for this access point.

Router is very fast and can do lot of things we can only do with more expensive router like VLANs IPSec and PPTP tunnels BGP monitoring and lots more same with access points easy to install and setup.

overall you want be disappointed

Littlebits Lego like system for electronics

I do really like enjoy playing them, I have to home smart kit which was a given to me by my Mrs. Who will not enjoy turning a LED at home using the internet 🙂 It has lot of other things you can try,

power adapter doesn\’t work for us here in UK as it was set to the voltage 110v but every thing else works great. I can get converters but that is expensive way of turning on and off a light 🙂

If you guys interested http://littlebits.cc/kits/smart-home-kit UK supplier https://www.pi-supply.com/product/littlebits-smart-home-kit/

Motorola tlkr t80 extreme walkie talkies review

well bought mine today I needed for an office move, you would think why you want walkie talkies it\’s actually use full u dont want to keep your mobile phone near you when you fixing and moving things. this one I bought is quite rugged they thought of every thing comes with a big case rechargeable battery but the good thing is you can use normal 4 AAA too so if you forget to charge and get up and going their is that option.

I haven\’t tested it far but it works fine in normal office size places. It\’s very clear too, it has some group call functions etc but I didnt use it yet but I\’m sure it will work

Cisco meraki Firewalls and access points review

I\’m lucky enough to try the Cisco meraki MX 80 and MR26 wireless access points today. wireless access point is brilliant. I know it\’s cloud based very easy to setup and use.

I can split the network with out using VLANs and get it to work and connection is solid used 3 together will be enough for a large size office.

Firewall not so much to start it\’s very expensive. setting are basic, their is a layer 7 support I can block websites and things but some of the thing I have call the support to do it. like the MTU setting on WAN

Limited ipv6 support and they only have 1 type of vpn etc amount of money we pay I would expect to see lot more

watch out for Barclays and few other banks overdraft charges

This is new scam the banks are caught on to instead of charging I don\’t know 20% APR or some thing similar. They started to do a daily charge of 0.75p a day if you go more than £15 on to agreed overdraft. what that means it will be the sameif just £25 overdrawn or £1499. this will encourage customer to go more in to overdraft and be slave to the bank.

Barclay and few other banks started to use crack dealer tactic.I\’m sure most that makes this kind decisions are on crack any way.

My advice is to move away from this banks their a lot of ethical banks out there check the link

NatWest rbs get caught giving doggy mortgage advice no surprise they have similar overdraft charges to Barclay\’s

I wouldn\’t trust any advice from Barclay\’s as well do your research look up which or some other trustable websites