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I’ve had a Ubiquiti Unifi Dream Machine for almost five years powering an NBN Fibre Gigabit service. Knowing that the probability of electronics that run 24/7 tend to go bang goes up every year it was time to swap it out for something more current and keep the UDM as a backup router/gateway. Ubiquiti has […]

When Apple created the Macintosh, Steve Jobs also created the Laserwriter. It was Steve’s interest in “typography, graphic layout, and font design” that led to the Apple Laserwriter and the birth of what was then known as desktop publishing. Consumers had for the first time access to beautiful proportionally spaced type and fonts without having […]

  I wanted to move a WordPress Multisite from Digital Ocean to a Raspberry Pi running on my LAN. The total size of the sites was just over 1 GB. After checking Google, it seems the Migrate Guru plugin could do the job. After several failed attempts, it finally worked and here are my tips, […]

I was following the excellent instructions on how to Build a LAMP Web Server with WordPress on my Pi running on my LAN. Everything worked fine with the internal LAN IP address. I wanted to have the web server accessible from the Internet and I thought all I had to do was setup port forwarding […]

If you run your own DNS server like pihole, you can see in the logs that Netgear routers wants to contact a couple of Netgear servers hundreds of times a day. Netgear has been silent on why they need to do this in public forums. Pihole has a pretty simple way to block this request […]

It is not as simple as just ordering a new plan. While the NBN supplied termination device (NTD) has four data ports, UNI-D 1-4, and theoretically can have four separate ISPs providing simultaneous services, this doesn’t work if one of the services is at gigabit speed, such as a 1000/50 plan. NBN won’t allow you […]

There’s no clear instruction on how to allow this via the Unifi Controller. On my UDM running 1.5.6.2150 the solution is to Accept ICMPv6 and IPv6-ICMP protocols on the WAN-Local interface of the Firewall. This allows you to get 10/10 from the test site http://test-ipv6.com. If you’re using this test https://ipv6-test.com the results are different on Safari, Chrome […]

Here’s a summary of articles that google throws up. In summary. The person who posted the information, and anyone else needs permission to republish it outside Twitter: BBC – The Editors: Use of photographs from social media in our output Court Rules Twitter Photos Are Not Copyright Free | About the Image News can’t use […]

Many ISPs have a two-tier quota system. My ISP gives me a separate data allowance for off peak which is between 2am and 8am. I thought this would be a perfect for uploading images to my client’s FTP server. But, how do I kick off a transfer in the middle of the night? I’ve been […]

I was putting together a Twitter List of photo agencies and came across this useful link: Agencies and Collectives « P H O T O J O U R N A L I S M L I N K S. You can also subscribe to my Twitter list here: https://twitter.com/#!/list/sydlow/photo-agencies which follows a few agencies […]

I finally migrated my web site, blog and image archive into a single platform. Previously I had Slideshowpro Director serve the images on my main site, wordpress.com to host my blog and Photoshelter for the image archive. The migration is now a free Graph Paper Press wordpress theme (Widescreen) that’s covering the main site https://syd-low.com, […]

Don’t know how this happened, but my web site is #1 if you look for sports photography (in Australia anyway)! Pretty cool eh.

A great read on how to do web design properly. BBC Internet Blog: A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services.

Found these good references from this article:http://www.aisleone.net/2009/design/myths-misconceptions-about-grid-systems/http://www.thegridsystem.org/http://www.designinfluences.com/fluid960gs/http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fluidgridshttp://fluid.newgoldleaf.com/

So I got excited by TB3’s new search feature which is similar to the once great Zoe idea. However, after importing my Mail.app local files and letting it index overnight TB3’s not a replacement for Mail.app and Spotlight. TB3’s search feature presents the results in a more contextually useful way allowing the results to be […]

Open-Mesh.com looks interesting. I’ve been using Meraki for a few years but this appears to have simpler payment options.

From www.socialnomics.com: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&hl=en&fs=1&]

Finally got around to updating my main photo site, fixing up SEO and doing all the house keeping. This is my Sports Food and Lifestyle Images & Photography in Melbourne, Australia | Sydney Low Photography site.

Branding 101 for everyone. The Brand Gap View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design brand)

OK – I just found my old blogger account and thought I’d rejuvenate it after a 2 year hiatus. I’m going to write about my photography, food and wine stuff and travel thoughts right here! To get things started, here are some recent photos of the Australian and Victorian Barista championships: http://www.thelows.org/syd/austbarcomp/http://www.thelows.org/syd/austbarheats/http://www.thelows.org/syd/VicBarComp/