Jim's Site

Welcome to my site. I have a Chess tutorial, Problems & solutions and also I have my schoolwork up here.

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Really good program for modelling the structure of MYSQL databases, then being able to transfer it directly to the database

(This is really just a note so I cna come back to remember what the name of the program was)

Having a squid proxy server transparently caching your websites can speed up loading of web-pages on the network. However it can be annoying when dealing with Ubuntu (and Debian) repositories, especially if people on the network use different repositories, as it just downloads the same files for each repository.

Apt-cacher-ng is an application that is able to cache the files for Ubuntu and Debian repositories across repositories, so if a file is cached from one server and someone requests the same file from another server, apt-cacher-ng just returns the file from the cache. It also has additional features (like adding pre- downloaded packages to the cache) that save bandwidth and an interface to monitor the bandwidth saved.

I was looking for an easy way for mobile phones to send SMS through MyNetFone, an Australian Voip service Provider. Because there was no program that I could find suitable, I created a program on the android platform (while learning the language) and called it "SMS via MNF.

I recently got a Virgin Mobile Broadband Modem USB dongle. Researching the dongle looked promising, uncovering people getting it to work on Ubuntu. What was lacking however, was a good tutorial for people to follow to get it to work.