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CakePHP ACL and other challenges

If you have implemented ACL in CakePHP and then you add an action to your controller or create a new controller and actions you will get locked out when you try to access it (unless you have granted access further up the tree) Firstly perform aco_sync using the...

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Synology Slow Local USB Transfer Speeds

I have a 3TB Western Digital USB Drive (details below) it was almost full. If you are planning to quickly transfer data off a USB Drive to your Synology you had better budget upwards of 4 days to make the transfer. The transfer speeds are so slow.... I searched the...

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Last Night In Telarah

Tomorrow the removalists come to take our stuff and move us to Melbourne. Our house in Telarah is now up for rent and I'm looking forward to living in the (more) Southern Climes of Melbourne. I have sold and thrown away three generations of tools and equipment from my...

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I bought a Jeep Macbook Pro

Moving and downsizing I wanted to get rid of my Lian-Li cube style desktop computer and get a laptop. Having been bitten recently with a HP touch screen that is so resource starved that it can take 4-5 minutes to become useable after booting I wanted to go with...

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Netgear ReadyNAS – Run a Mile

So I purchased a Synology DS415+ recently and was profoundly impressed at the depth of functionality, and how it just works. Now for a contrast I recently worked on a Netgear ReadyNAS running version 6.2.4 of it's firmware. To give it a three word overview: Really...

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