Sending Scans from your Printer via Email

If you’ve ever tried to do this, you’ll know that it’s fraught with problems, here’s a few solutions that may get you out of trouble does your printer manufacturer have their own service you can use?For instance Brother allow you to send scans...

cPanel & WHM in Virtual Machine Manager on Synology

WARNING- You require a whole bunch of stuff to make this work, including a Public IP address on your VM. Read the requirements carefully to make sure you can meet all of them! There isn’t anything here that you can’t find elsewhere, but as usual I found...

Synology Ironwolf Health Status

This post was brought about by a really odd case we had in our network. We run a Synology DS1817+ for backups. It’s ideal for the job- loads of drive slots, can take a 10Gb-e card, and up to 16GB RAM. And in RAID 6 with 10TB drives it will have nearly 60TB of...

State of The Mac 2019- Updated October 2019

We like Macs, but there are some er, less desirable models in the line up- so If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? This post was originally written in March 2017, and since then Apple has updated many of the models- I have updated each of the...

Fanvil PA2 Setup for 3CX

This is just a quick set of notes to document things that I found difficult when doing this setup. With a lot of products you can simply use Google, but I found here that yes, I was the only person on the planet dealing with these issues. The Fanvil PA2 is a beast of...

UBNT AirMax AirGateway Setup

If you simply need to connect an ethernet device to the internet via wifi, these are a great little unit. But it took me ages to work out how because most of the internet instructions are all about creating a bridge between 2 wifi networks. So here it is- Plug the...