You can schedule downloads and uploads in LFTP in a simple manner by using the `at` command. Anything following the syntax described in this image below should work. at now + 2 hours -- queue mirror --use-pget-n=10 yourdirectory/ at 1:00 tomorrow -- queue mirror --use-pget-n=10 yourdirectory/
Read more →Ever since the original Logitech G15 keyboard came out I've really taken a liking to the idea of having a little LCD screen near the keyboard for stat monitoring. I much prefer this to an on-screen overlay. The G15 and G19 are pretty old now and I don't believe the LCD screen concept ever took off past those models. Logitech now has "Arx" which aims to replace this concept. Logitech have keyboards now with an "Arx dock", which is basically a phone dock. The idea is that you can use the Arx software on your PC along with the Arx…
Read more →To get the best quality out of your video captures, it's best to capture losslessly and encode the content post-capture rather than trying to do it in real-time via software encoding or using hardware encoders. Unfortunately normal raw lossless capturing requires very fast storage and a pretty hefty amount of disk space. SSD drives can cope, but depending on the length of your captures you may well need over 2TB of space, which is currently quite expensive in SSD form. An alternative is to use RAID0 arrays or similar. If your storage cannot keep up with the required write speeds…
Read more →This is the method I've used to fix the `Can't connect to Group Policy Client service` error on Windows 10. Symptoms - Log into Windows, no desktop icons, start bar not really working, and a little lock icon in the taskbar with that error message. A system restore will probably fix this problem, however it wasn't an option for me as I've disabled the system restore feature. In the start bar type cmd so that you see the command prompt shortcut. Right click it and run as Administrator. Type netsh and press enter. Type winsock reset and press enter. Reboot…
Read more →Open the registry editor and browse to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Services \W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient Select - SpecialPollInterval The default decimal value will be 604800 seconds - 7 days. Change this to whatever value you wish. So for example, setting this to 3600 will force the NTP service to perform an update every hour.
Read more →If you’ve ever tried saturating a fast connection using FTP/SFTP you may have run into problems where you can only achieve limited download speeds using a single thread. Segmented downloading can often be a solution. Bare in mind that segmented FTP/SFTP will open many sessions to the server you are connecting to. Depending on the situation this might not be ideal, however if you’re sure you have sufficient resources to do it (without generating too much load if your server is within a shared environment), then it can work very well. You’ll need to install lftp - I run it…
Read more →Roughly three months have passed since connecting to NBN FTTN via TPG. I'm on the "up to" 100/40mbit plan. At a guess I'm ~500meters from the node. At this point I haven't had any issues with the horrible speeds/congestion that some users report. FTTN sucks compared to FTTH for a ton of reasons that I won't go into. The bottom line so far is that I'm more or less able to saturate the speed that I'm syncing up at regardless of peak/offpeak. Modem Stats (TPG supplied Huawei HG658) Line standard VDSL2 Channel type Interleaved Downstream line rate (kbit/s) 62945 Upstream…
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