Hi from sunny Leicester....

[polo-g40]

Hello!
I am interested in many areas of electronics and computing gadgetry.. Example, DC 3phase (HDD motors) control for a leggo car, driven by a maplin USB I/O project board. Samsung 'aleration', etc.
I am party to a lot of photocopier maintanance and making working machines from several.. Now 2 Nice 3800c's, cheapest ever printing in consumables and is bang on quality, anyway...

In the past, I devised the IP/Microsoft networking switchover from novell for a local college in 1996 and was privilidged to be its network manager until 2005. Exchange, IIS, ISA (formerly Proxy2), SQL, Redhat, Visual Studio (VB then, C# now). I have a very good grounding in most things Microsoft thats about now, HyperV and stuff, working contractually at another local college. Fun was had when it was found that the university over the road's hundreds of unix PC's of the time on it's unsplit Class B network would resond to broadcast pings on it's nnn.nnn.255.255. Making it look like the originating from the address of someone you are trying to beat at quake. Only one dos command could would seriously affect their 56k modem, I learned an awful lot.
Also we did a lot of Cisco installation and *as of 2005 spec'ing. I know IP routing inside out in my opinion. In the times of linux masquerading gateways and inter-university/college Quake tournaments, I was often consulted regarding routing and services.
One of my C# based college services was an RDP redirector that allowed outside access (once logged in to a certain web-page) to your desk PC ('mstsc' to terminals.xx.ac.uk:nnnn (nnnn=telephone ext).. I hapily create packet-level stuff just for fun.. Portscanners/proxies and such are only 60 mins code away (socket.beginconnect etc) but I am too old to bother using them on anything outside my home network and bank of 'in-the-attic' laptops' virtual machines I use for playing network admin again!

Anyyway, that's me. 34, bored, haplily single, and in Leicester.
Many thanks
NEAL

[TechWreck]

Originally Posted by polo-g40

Hello!
I am interested in many areas of electronics and computing gadgetry.. Example, DC 3phase (HDD motors) control for a leggo car, driven by a maplin USB I/O project board. Samsung 'aleration', etc.
I am party to a lot of photocopier maintanance and making working machines from several.. Now 2 Nice 3800c's, cheapest ever printing in consumables and is bang on quality, anyway...

In the past, I devised the IP/Microsoft networking switchover from novell for a local college in 1996 and was privilidged to be its network manager until 2005. Exchange, IIS, ISA (formerly Proxy2), SQL, Redhat, Visual Studio (VB then, C# now). I have a very good grounding in most things Microsoft thats about now, HyperV and stuff, working contractually at another local college. Fun was had when it was found that the university over the road's hundreds of unix PC's of the time on it's unsplit Class B network would resond to broadcast pings on it's nnn.nnn.255.255. Making it look like the originating from the address of someone you are trying to beat at quake. Only one dos command could would seriously affect their 56k modem, I learned an awful lot.
Also we did a lot of Cisco installation and *as of 2005 spec'ing. I know IP routing inside out in my opinion. In the times of linux masquerading gateways and inter-university/college Quake tournaments, I was often consulted regarding routing and services.
One of my C# based college services was an RDP redirector that allowed outside access (once logged in to a certain web-page) to your desk PC ('mstsc' to terminals.xx.ac.uk:nnnn (nnnn=telephone ext).. I hapily create packet-level stuff just for fun.. Portscanners/proxies and such are only 60 mins code away (socket.beginconnect etc) but I am too old to bother using them on anything outside my home network and bank of 'in-the-attic' laptops' virtual machines I use for playing network admin again!

Anyyway, that's me. 34, bored, haplily single, and in Leicester.
Many thanks
NEAL

I nominate this guys introduction for an award! blody ell its reads like the cv of rocket scientist !.
welcome friend

[polo-g40]

Sorry, It was a bit of an introduction! I am worried people think I am blagging sometimes though when I come up with solutions on forums..!

I'm not all that but allright!!! I seem to have done a lot of stuff I admit, But I've been lucky to been very privilidged to get just the right jobs at the right time... I can easily prove my bonifide past, I am absolutely no blagger!
I worked at Leicester Marconi Radar from leaving school (still 15 to start with) before I worked at the (Loughborough) College. Learned an awful lot of RF and Electronics stuff working in the Test equipment department of Marconi. Made redundant 24th August 1997 (My birthday), started at the college 1st september. Walked into there with 4 machines with internet (real addresses). So I setup a large-ish .1q network + layer 3 etc, based on what like it was at Marconi.. (Shared drives/printers/workgroups/exchange/forums etc)

Thanks for having me, I am full of beans when it comes to I2c and SPI at the moment too!
I was well known there, and round town, occaisional happy hardcore DJing.

[madrat]

Hello from Hinckley, just up the road

[wasp11]

Hi from belfast, just across from you a bit