Welcome Hi there. My name is Josh Curry, and I am an electronic engineer from the UK who loves dabbling in the world of engineering and technology. In my posts, you will likely find a gathering of information about areas I have explored and studied. I hope that you find it useful!
software Running Unifi Network Application in Docker Recently I tried to use the Unifi Network Application to set up some new UAP-AC-PRO access points, but found myself unable to get it working reliably on my M1 MacBook
electronics Programming an E-Tech IM400 I recently came into a couple of E-Tech IM400 UHF Radios, but could find no information online on how to actually program them. This page summarises what I found and
software SharePoint: Multicoloured events in Calendar In a shared calendar, often you want to show different categories of event as different colours. I recently had to set up a calendar for lab bookings which would show
SIP Cisco IP Phones: Spoofing CDP to use VOIP VLAN on an unmanaged network I ran into an interesting issue recently where I was deploying Cisco IP Phones onto an unmanaged network. With any other phone vendor, this wouldn't be too much
SIP Cisco 6901: Using with SIP/SCCP, and Offhook Autodial with Asterisk I picked up a great deal recently on a Cisco 6901 IP phone from eBay, and wanted to use it as a small unobtrusive phone for calling another fixed line
SIP Resetting Avaya E129 IP Phones to use with Asterisk Recently i came across some super-cheap Avaya E129 IP phones, and wanted to set them up to connect to an Asterisk Server over SIP. Unfortunately with these phones, in order
mac How to quit GlobalProtect (mac) If you've used the globalprotect client for Mac, you may notice that there is no way to exit it, meaning it can continue submitting information about your system
networking Cisco IOS Cheat Sheet Throughout various projects, i've had quite a lot of experience using Cisco IOS. Commonly used for administering switches and firewalls, IOS is a simple command line interface which
software Setting up Microsoft Exchange 2010 with Thunderbird Thunderbird can be quirky to set up with MS Exchange 2010. Here are some settings that work. IMAP setting Server name: imap.exchange.mydomain.co.uk Port: 993 Encryption method:
Using a Silicom Dual port Copper Ethernet PCI-E Intel based Bypass Server Adapter (PE2G2BPI) on Ubuntu 16.04 I recently inherited a Silicom PE2G2BPI (Dual port Copper Ethernet PCI-E Intel based Bypass Server Adapter) from a friend, and I wanted to get it working on my Ubuntu 16.
software Mozilla Thunderbird: Show sent messages in thread view I used to use Apple Mail as my mail client until one day it crashed and refused to show mail with no explanation. From then, I began using Mozilla Thunderbird.
software Setting up Office 365 with Mozilla Thunderbird Recently I had to use an Office 365 mail account with Mozilla Thunderbird. For some reason, Office365 domains are not recognised by default by Thunderbird and such the automatic configuration
OpenWRT: Create a WiFi MAC Whitelist or Blacklist Recently I had to prevent people automatically roaming onto a certain access point being used for development purposes. Hence, a MAC blacklist was put in place to force devices to
Pan/Tilt controls not available on Logitech Orbit/Sphere AF on linux Running mjpg-streamer, my pan and tilt controls were not available. There were lots of errors like UVCIOC_CTRL_ADD - Error at Pan (relative): Inappropriate ioctl for device (25) To
software IRSSI: Connect to a server which uses a self-signed certificate In order to connect to a friend's IRC, I had to accept his self-signed certificate. This is quite a simple process of downloading the cert and referencing it
networking Synchronised Low Latency Multi-Client Network Audio My flatmates and I have been trying for a long time to set up a synchronised network audio system so that we can listen to music from youtube and other
Set timezone in Linux To quickly set the timezone in linux, at a shell, type: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Then select your region, e.g. Europe And then your city, e.g. London Now, your
mac Mac: Using VPN with same subnet as LAN Recently I changed my home network over to 10.0.1.0/24. Initially this was great compared to 192.168.1.0/24 as the addresses were much shorter
Access a local webserver through firewalls with SSH tunnelling. Sometimes, it is very useful to have a local website viewable globally, for instance if you are developing a new web app for a client, or would like to temporarily
windows VPN on Windows 10: Selected Authentication protocol not permitted on the remote access server When connecting to a PPTP VPN from Mac or Linux, I had no problem accessing the VPN. From windows however, I got the following error: The remote connection was denied
mac Using iTunes Library Sharing over a VPN or the Internet We run an L2TP-over-IPSEC VPN at home to allow remote access to our data and computers. On my server, I'm running forked-daapd, an itunes daap server for Linux.
Setting up IRSSI for IRC This guide shows how to setup IRSSI (a linux IRC client) on a Linux server. This guide has been tested on Ubuntu, Debian and Redhat. Step 1 - Download IRSSI
