I use Winamp to play mp3s. I always have done – it’s lightweight, I like the interface and it has the few plugins I need. I don’t need the bloat of iTunes or Windows Media Player. However, I seem to have Windows Media Player installed – I don’t remember installing it, and I probably wouldn’t…
Change Windows Live ID for Xbox Account
By Howard | Published December 6th, 2007At last! With the December update to the Xbox 360 dashboard, Microsoft introduced a feature that a good number of gamers (me included) have been clamouring for. It is now possible to change the Windows Live ID attached to your Xbox Live account. This means that I can stop using the obsolete hdurdle@hotmail.com address and…
Graphing Counter-Strike Source FPS/Users in MRTG on Windows
By Howard | Published December 4th, 2007In my last post, you discovered my obsession for generating statistics on my network usage and my use of MRTG to draw pretty little graphs. Writing that post got me thinking about my Counter-Strike server, and what data I could usefully graph from it. A bit of Googling led me to this page where a…
Traffic Graphing
By Howard | Published December 3rd, 2007The image on the left is just one of the graphs generated automatically for tracking the data usage on my home network. That particular graph shows the usage of my ADSL connection over time; green is downloaded data, while the blue line shows my uploads. It is generated by Tobi Oetiker’s outstanding MRTG – The…
Broadband Usage
By Howard | Published December 2nd, 2007I was reminded today that my ISP (Zen) provide a portal where their users can check out their broadband usage. I’m on an unlimited plan (Zen Office 8000 Max) so don’t need to worry about it month to month, but I thought the stats were interesting:
Clearing a Cisco Router's Dynamic NAT Table
By Howard | Published December 1st, 2007I keep needing to do this – so once again to help my future self: When you have a number of public IPs being translated through a router to an internal address space, a router’s dynamic translation can get full. I’ve got an 877W, and it seems that a combination of running BitTorrent and a…
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