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Aug 05 2011

Adding a second VOIP number to iiNet’s BOB2

category: knowledgebase author:

After spending a few hours last night finally getting this second VOIP number working on the BOB2, I figured I would write it out, and hopefully help someone! At first, when reading about the BOB2, I got the impression that we could get 2 DID (Direct Inbound Dialing) numbers for the BOB2 from iiNet. This [...]


Aug 15 2010

Learn something new everyday… Eject CD from command line

category: knowledgebase,osx author:

Obviously I am still new at this OS/X thing… apparently you can eject a disk that hasn’t mounted from the command line using drutil. >drutil eject Wonderful stuff. Was trying everything I could think of, thanks Google! and snipplr


Aug 10 2010

New site live : TerraWines

category: Corestar,website author:

Terra wines website has gone live. Thanks to Design Design Graphic Management for the design!


Aug 10 2010

And a BIG Solar plant in California is about to start construction

category: Energy,Solar author:

Bright Source Energy are on the verge of getting approval for the development of a nearly 400MW power plant in the Mojave Desert in California. Using a ‘Power Tower’ technology, where mirrors focus the sun onto a central tower that then uses the heat to generate power, the power plant will be the largest solar [...]


Aug 10 2010

Molten Salt Solar

category: Energy,Solar author:

Seems someone has finally worked out how to keep the molten salts flowing – Italy’s utility Enel has launched ‘Archimede’ . A Concentrating Solar Plant in Sicily. 5MW, using molten salts through the whole system rather than as just storage. More details at OpportunityEnergy


Aug 10 2010

Solar in the Pilbara

category: Energy,Solar author:

from ClimateSpectator Following the sun The US-based SunPower Corp has completed the installation of a 505-kilowatt solar power facility, the largest solar tracking system in the country, at two sites in the Pilbara. The facility at Marble Bar and Nullagine, built on behalf of the local government-owned utility Horizon Power, will power the world’s first [...]


Apr 03 2010

Introducing… Corestar

category: Corestar,News author:

After 18 years on the net, I can finally say I have a blog. Incredible how the time goes, and how technology changes. Having started with hardcoding HTML, then Dreamweaver templates, then HTML again, then finding PHP (v3 then v4 soon afterward) and starting to do some real code. Then writing my own content management [...]