kieranbarnes Independent PHP, WordPress & CubeCart Programmer

SSH Timeouts on DOCSIS 3 (Virgin Media 50Mb, 100Mb, 120Mb)

Posted on May 15, 2012

Posted by kieran

Since moving to Virgin's 120Mb Broadband my SSH connections would drop after 30 seconds of inactivity. This made some grey hairs appear on the side of my head.

This happens due to the way Virgin handle the Internet traffic on their DOCSIS 3 network, as opposed to lower broadband speeds that use the DOCSIS 1 network.

I've managed to solve this by altering the client time out parameters in the SSHD config on each server.

Kieran’s Password Generator

Posted on March 6, 2012

Posted by kieran

Here's the random password generator script I wrote. It has a few different options like pronounceable, unpronounceable, Windows 2008 domain safe and outright mean passwords.

Kieran's Password Generator

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Money Website of the Week

Posted on October 20, 2011

Posted by kieran

The Sunday Mirror voted my customer's site - CompareMoreDeals to be their Money website of the week this Sunday. Propa bo.

T site which searches and compares thousands of offers from daily deal websites such as Groupon, Crowdit, Wahanda and Likebees.

It’s aims is to save time by doing the comparisons for you.

You can search by category, such as restaurants or fitness, or by location.

Cities covered include Aberdeen, Bristol, London, Cardiff, Manchester and Liverpool.

See the Mirror article here.

Imitation is flattery.

Posted on October 11, 2010

Posted by Kieran

Thats all.

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“anyone know kieran barnes”

Posted on March 25, 2010

Posted by Kieran

i know kieran from back in the day... what about him - yep

Great guy! Works at a bank up in Louisville. See him at the clubs up there also. He's a good dancer! Lives down here though. - sweetstuff

who in etown doesn't know kieran? what are you wanting to know? - who doesnt

what do u know - MISS c baby

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The tap in the Kitchen

Posted on February 11, 2010

Posted by Kieran

A fantasticaly inexplicable email appeared today.

Please can you make sure that when you turn the tap off in the kitchen you don’t turn it till it stops dripping.

It’s meant to drip & people have been struggling to turn it back on.

Regards

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Snows

Posted on January 6, 2010

Posted by Kieran

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What is the difference between ‘learnt’ and ‘learned’?

Posted on December 28, 2009

Posted by Kieran

Apparently, not much. These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English. It's an irregular verb, and this is a part of its irregularity.

British people - 'Learnt' please.

Dixons – The last place you want to go

Posted on December 21, 2009

Posted by Kieran

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VTEC Love

Posted on November 1, 2009

Posted by Kieran

I did a photo shoot at the new VTEC Direct workshop last weekend. Lots of Honda related excitement!

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