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Short-codes for NextGen Gallery

As part of the himiko migration, the links for the images and galleries really broke. In rebuilding the images and links, the short codes had to be recreated.

The preferred shortcode generally used here is as follows.
[Opening SQUARE bracket] ngg_images gallery_ids=”1″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” [Closing SQUARE bracket]

Reference
NextGen Gallery Shortcodes

Old Drawings

Moved to a new server hoping that wordpress would be easier to maintain. lots of old links are now broken due to the migration and lack of maintenance of the old server.

Hopefully, this shift would signal a beginning of a much more stable system to come.

In the meantime, this is a repost of the drawings i have done in my younger days. Only LOTR ones are not actually by me… i can’t remember where i got them from through. I believe it was submitted to me by someone such that i can host it.

Singtel Fibre Setup without PARC Router

Here is the link that helped me to set it up.
http://miniliew.blogspot.com/2011/05/bye-bye-singtel-2wire-5012nv.html

Architecturally, the Singtel Fibre modem provides a single Cat6 cable with 3 VLANs tagged to it. In order to make use of the network, VOIP and MIOTV separately, there is a need to split these 3 items into individual connections so that “dumb” routers or layer 3 routers can make use of them. Based on recommendations from friends, i made use of a CISCO SLM2008T which cost SGD$159 to do this. Cheap and relatively trouble free. However, i noticed that the above blog doesn’t map to my Layer 2 switch so i think the below steps would serve as a reminder to how i did it in principle. Continue reading Singtel Fibre Setup without PARC Router