I’ve been playing with some very cheap, but quite good power meters made by Eastron for a few years now, in particular their compact (single-DIN) single phase Modbus meters. They are great for cheap (non-commercial) energy monitoring applications. The SDM120M variant has Modbus over RS-485 support for convenient data acquisition and integration. These aren’t the […]
I use VPN for work quite often, and lately more often than not. I found that some programs that load on Windows startup and rely on this connectivity were trying to connect before I had a chance to establish a VPN connection. I needed a way to connect to VPN as soon as possible, even […]
If you’re anything like me when it comes to IE9 you’re viewing Microsoft’s hype with a measure of skepticism. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is both the most popular web browser and the biggest pain in the ass for us web developers. When I first heard that Microsoft were making an effort to support the latest standards […]
Recently I was tasked with resolving a performance issue on some PCs in the office. They weren’t that old but seemed to get progressively slower after switching on until they were practically unusable. Like many package PCs on the market, they had a decent CPU speed but were quite anaemic in the memory department. The […]