Monthly Archives: December 2008

ADSL fault reporting in the UK

I recently had a few problems with my home broadband connection, provided by Demon Internet.  Working with Demon to resolve these, I learnt some useful stuff applicable to anyone whose underlying connection uses BT’s ADSL Max service. Many British ADSL providers use this BT Wholesale service to connect their customers to their own network.  The [...]

Creating free PDFs using PDFCreator

PDF files have become a de facto standard for information publishing over the past decade or so.  There are lots of good reasons why you might want to create a PDF version of a file.  Here are a few of the most common: You’re sending a document to someone – or publishing it on your [...]