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As was mentioned on a previous post, the Test-Um Tri-Porter is now available. It has now been added to our e-commerce system so it can now be purchased online.

I hope nobody noticed but we had some infrastructure changes over the weekend
We scrapped one of our servers. Yippee! Not only does this save us a lot of money each month, it also means that we don’t have to endlessly patch the old server either.
Over the weekend the mail server was redirected to [...]

I am happy to announce that the Test-Um Tri-Porter (IVT600) has arrived.
First impressions: absolutely brilliant! Three testers (voice, data & video) all in a single solid unit. Oh, and you get a tone tracer too.

It isn’t in the on-line shop yet, so please bear with us. It will be available early next week as soon [...]

Things must be pretty tough in the technical magazine market. My favourite magazine has died, with another on life support. Predictably, the one I don’t like much seems to be thriving.
Software Development magazine was a great read, covering topic areas not easily found outside of academia. Byte, my all time favourite, ceased being published as [...]

I couldn’t help but laugh at the kitchen in Microsoft’s Home of the Future. Everybody knows that nothing dates like visions of the future, but this takes the biscuit (or the focaccia, see below). I’m still waiting for my jetpack and my nuclear powered million-miles-to-the-gallon car that I was promised when I was a child, [...]

I’ve just got into using RSS readers (yes, I know I’m very late on this one!) to keep track of various industry feeds, forums and blogs. I use Google Reader. It is a great example of what web 2 can deliver to enhance our user experience. I bet it’s a pig to program though, if [...]

We are in the midst of server consolidation drive. Three servers will go into one!
The hack attack last week has certainly speeded things up, though it was always in the technology plan for this quarter anyway. The new server is very locked down with a nice heavy iron firewall in front of it. We also [...]

Over the weekend one of our web servers was hacked…fortunately it wasn’t our main e-commerce server. The server is in fact in the middle of being de-commissioned. The hack happened around a day after our software vendor reported a vulnerability and provided a patch.
You sure don’t get much time to fix things. You either fix [...]

We’ve noticed a small up tick in the numbers of cable testers coming back to us for repair. Nine times out of ten it is a problem with the cable socket caused through wear and tear by inserting and removing the cable during testing. This is great because it means people are really using their [...]