Intranet

My Intranet is no longer active


My intranet (formerly the TempusFugit Intranet)  is a local server on which I store all of the software that I own and have downloaded.

It is also where I store all the source code and drivers for the projects that I am working on and equipment that I own.


If there is a file or program that you are looking for it may be available for download.

In addition to the intranet server I have developed a "TeraByte Storage Network". It is this network that forms the storage for my Home Media Centre. This network has never been connected to the Internet and is not accessible from the outside world. Under some circumstances I have opened up my internal, intranet, and forwarded some of its contents to the Internet. In these circumstances the contents have been protected by password control and required a visitor to enter a User ID.

Links related to securing a server:

• The location of resources discussed on this blog
• Using .htaccess for password control of Internet resources - this is not used on this blog and is only relevant to a hosted website.

Why can't Quicktax (Intuit) be forthcoming?

• Home page of this blog

Why is it so difficult to see if QT Basic is the same as QT Standard except that you don't get the wizards?

For an extra $20 it seems like a waste of money to me. In fact, it is worth purchasing QT Basic to see if it does include all the forms (even the Flow Through/ Limited Partnership T5013 forms) and that you can copy the data from your 2007 returns, so that I can blog about it.

I have never used the wizards and think that they are a waste of time! The descriptions on the Intuit website seem to indicate that there is some sort of FUD that they are trying to perpetuate to get conusumers to buy the $39.99 version. They claim that you need it if you have RSPs.

At least this year they have increased the limit to 8 from 2 in 2007, I guess that they lost too many customers to UFile!

"Quicktax Basic and Quicktax Standard what is the difference" - this is what I searched for and maybe others will. If so, come back to this post and see what I find. To me, I am willing to spend the $19.99 for QT Basic just so that I see for myself. Even if I have to end up buying the one for twice the price!

UPDATE:
I purchased the Basic version and it was just fine for my needs - see the comment below.

Download vs. Streaming

If you are downloading iPlayer programs (as opposed to "streaming" them) - turn off your proxy (or VPN) connection after the download has started. [or toggle your Internet connection to - "Direct Connection"]

This way the peer-to-peer nature of the Kontiki download software will not know where you are getting the authorization from. When you download the program is more than likely NOT coming from the BBC server (hence it is not blocked outside the UK) - it is coming from other computers on the Kontiki network that have downloaded the material.

See the message in the Download manager that tells you the speed and the number of sources to see what I mean.

If you do this you will minimise the chances of the BBC working out where the requests for its programming is coming from as well an lightening the load of the proxy or VPN server. In fact it is probably a good idea to download ALL the programming that you want to watch in this way.

If you are outside the UK the connection for the download is likely to be slow as you are connecting to other computers in the UK (or at least slower that if you were located in the UK). It is also likely that the speed of the download is pretty much the same as it would be if you have the connection via a proxy or a VPN - but it could be faster!

iPlayer Torrent

The post was made as I saw a comparison of the BBC iPlayer as a "Torrent"

It is (partially) and it is not.

The BBC iPlayer has two distinct modes of operation. One is simple streaming and the other is similar to a "Torrent" - the Download Manager.

The Download Manager - does just that, download programs from iPlayer to your PC - it does this using a similar manner to a Torrent website. It is similar due to the fact that the program material once downloaded to your PC is available to others connected to the iPlayer Download Manager (Kontiki) it is then available to other iPlayer Download Manager users to download from your computer. In other words the Download Manager is a "pear-to-pear" system similar to a "Torrent" in that it uploads material from your computer to the Internet so that others can download it.
UNLIKE a "Torrent" there is no upload/download requirements for iPlayer. If you choose not to install the Download Manager to your PC, then there is NO similarity to a "Torrent"

If you elect not to download the Download Manager and install it you can still use the BBC iPlayer software (on the BBC iPlayer website - without having to download ANY software) to stream video TV programming from the BBC.

However, iPlayer programming is ONLY available within the UK - unless you take other measures.

Links to other posts on this blog related to iPlayer:

• All pages relating to iPlayer on The Technology Muse

Dual Booting as an alternative to a Virtual Machine

This is an alternative to the configuration of a Virtual Machine.

• All pages relating to Dual Booting and Virtualization on The Technology Muse