Update Firmware Toshiba 40RL858 TV
I bought a 40″ Toshiba television earlier this year (a 40RL858) and was very pleased with apart from the fact that BBC iPlayer didn’t work out of the box. Update: the 40RL858 has now been ...
Author Archives: Bob McKay
Sainsbury’s Entertainment (Digital Content) Review
I recently had a sudden need to listen to a song from my youth that was stuck in my head (Room 512 by The Wonderstuff), as usual my first port of call was Google which quickly led me to Amazon.co.uk ( ...
Matt Ward, Sort Your Twitter Sign Up
So for years now I’ve been receiving notifications from Twitter for some guy called Matt Ward and I have no idea why. I’ve tried tracking him down but to no avail, this page serves solely ...
Common Sense Lost: The Patent Wars
Anyone following the news would be hard-pressed not to have seen the various stories and numerous patent disputes being fought at the moment. It seems there’s not a single mobile device manufac ...
Multiple SSL Certificates on a Single IP in IIS
Today I ran in to a problem in IIS, I wanted to configure multiple websites with SSL using a wildcard certificate but without using more than one of my fast dwindling supply of static IPV4 addresses. ...
Microsoft Axes Small Business Server
Today Microsoft soft finally dropped the axe on their Small Business Server line and while this didn’t come as a surprise to most Microsoft-centric service providers, many were disappointed an a ...
Disclosure Policy
Amazon Disclosure Bob McKay is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertisi ...
SBS POP3 Connector Encountered One or More Errors
If you’re using the POP3 Connector feature of [easyazon_link asin=”B004I6IXC4″ locale=”US” new_window=”yes” nofollow=”default” tag=”bomc-21& ...
Old Computer Hard Drive Adverts
Below is a collection of old vintage hard drive adverts from as early as the 1970s, I’ve put them in order of size (smallest first!) Persci 3.5MB Hard Drive Morrow Designs – 10MB Hard Driv ...
Classic ASP CAPTCHA (Image Verification) using ASPJpeg
I wrote this script many years ago when I needed a simple CAPTCHA generator for use with the classic ASP ASPJpeg component. At the time it received a lot of interest and while obviously almost obsole ...