Make your slow Tesla into a fast Tesla by adding some extra weight. Original price is $499, reduced to $399 which can then be stacked with "downunder" for an additional 10%. Includes …
Many years back - 15-20, my company (at the time) imported a new employee from overseas who ended up being my boss. She was nice, but naive. I got a call from her one evening asking me to drive her …
So I recently caught out an employee who snuck their Xbox into work for some console gaming during the holidays.. He connected it to our LAN, and the switch notified me of the "illegal …
Meraki are doing another webinar where selected IT professionals will be able to sacrifice an hour of their time for a shiny new firewall. It comes with a 3 year license. Webinar is on Wed 13 Dec @ …
I wanted to buy a second Steam Link, EB Games wanted $90, and so I got one for about 1/3 the price at Game UK instead. Steam Link The Steam Controller is currently out of stock, but it could also be …
Hi guys, I am planning for a scenario where one of my system administrators will not legally be allowed access to particular network resources. This needs to be considered from both a logical and a …
The joys of being a homeowner. I come home to find it raining in the garage courtesy of 4 slipped roof tiles. Anyway, I put them back into place, but what I noticed was that a bunch of the tiles …
Hi guys, I'm having a dispute with a telco at work and it's reached the point of stupidity. The TIO seems to be the go-to-guy for when us individual ozbargainers fun afoul of telco …
Everyone already has their Meraki AP and switches.. So now they are giving their firewall for free…. To selected IT people. You get an MX64 with a 3yr Advanced license, typically around $2k …
The missus came home after doing some shopping for face creams and stuff. And proud as punch she was showing off this Avene Thermal Spring Water spray she got for the bargain price of ~$20 for 300ml, …
Last week, my daughter wanted me to play a my little pony song on the piano for her (she's been playing the chorus part by ear for a while now and probably wants some help with the rest). The …
Here's a dilemma I have and I'd like some opinions on. I inherited an IT environment that was built up with cost as the only concern. Over the last year and a bit, I've tried to spend …
Hi all, Looking for thoughts, comments, and experiences.. I am considering changing out my water tubing from flex PVC to hard tubing. No real reason other than to gain some experience working with …
I have had one of the industrial machines here crap it's power supply. It's a Dell XE and of note, the power supply has a 3A supply of 24.8v as well as the standard (but miniaturized) ATX / …
First a disclaimer: I'm not a member, and will never be a member of any union. However I do recognise the value that they can bring to their members, non-member employees (Yay for RDO!), and the …
My company's communications contract is up for renewal so I am putting out to tender. The incumbent is Telstra (the previous IT manager must have had shares in Telstra if you see the deal he …
Hi all, The missus has expressed interest in getting rid of one of the cars and herself using an e-bike around town, primarily to do the school drop and any top-up shopping during the week. Which is …
Hi guys I recently bought a newish house and all the interior door handles keep coming loose and rattling around.. I tighten them on a regular basis.. But due to the flimsy way they are bolted …
The missus is making noise about our 10th anniversary coming up - something along the lines of beer and pizza aren't good enough this time around.. So I'm thinking of ditching the kids with …
Hi Guys, I'm not really looking for a bargain, but more of a specific model of old PC. Dell Optiplex GX1 in working condition Pentium 3, around 450mhz Standard IDE hard disk Don't care …
Guys My Sony TV remote is dying.. Some of the buttons are unresponsive (unless you press really hard) and not surprisingly they are the buttons we use all the time. I've cracked the unit open, …
I have a dilemma of the first world type… My wife's PC has 2 x 2tb hard disks, one for media (which I share to our home network using a DLNA server), and one for her games. OS is on an …
Hi Guys, I will be liquidating a server room for a business that is shutting down. This is totally new to me as it's outside my area of expertise, but I have 2 months to figure it out. The …
I turned on my TV last night and went to watch something off my DLNA server. And funnily enough, I see this strange new media server show up… Something called ChrisXXXX-PC (where XXXX is the …
Hi Guys, Does anyone have experience installing data cabling (i.e. cat 5e / 6) in a unit? The parameters are top floor with ceiling cavity access, they can be dropped down the gap between the inner …
So a short story. I ordered and paid for a laptop part on eBay, and after a few days, I got a cancellation request from the vendor stating that he was out of stock. No problems, I think, so I go to …
So with Sydney's storms yesterday afternoon, we had a blackout. Power comes back on, everything comes back on, except for my wife's gaming PC… Which blows the guts out of the power …
Hi Guys, I'm looking to set up a home server. It will need to run Windows of some sort and will have some sort of SQL server… In addition, it will need to serve a small lightly used file …
I stumbled across the MS Bizspark program just the other day, while trying to come up with a cheap MSDN subscription for a startup. It looks pretty good on the surface, and will give you unlimited, …
I have a few services on TPG incl internet home phone, and 2 mobiles. One of those mobiles has had international roaming activated on it, because I take it overseas. I heard recently that they have …
