Mon 05 October 2015 | tags: wordpress, google cloud storage, s3, media, uploads, google, -- (permalink)
One of the big challenges with Wordpress in the cloud, is the media we upload. As soon as we upload media files, the Wordpress instance has data that isn't stored in the database. This prevents us for example having a docker Wordpress install that we can scale up as required …
Sat 21 February 2015 | tags: arduino, electronics, LiPo, nrf24l01, -- (permalink)
Over the last few months, I've been getting back into electronics. It's really not fair what's available now, that wasn't available when I was a kid! Arduino's for a start are a very easy way to get into microcontrollers. And with the Arduino scene has come lots of small electronic …
Sat 29 March 2014 | tags: wordpress, pelican, -- (permalink)
It's been awhile since I last blogged. Since then, I've started a full time job as a Systems Administrator. This means I have less time for maintaining my own servers. So I've finally taken the plunge migrating some of the more static sites to static. For example this Technical blog …
Sat 18 May 2013 | tags: bloat, windows, -- (permalink)
It's been some time since I've had to do some work on a Windows computer, in particular lots of software installs and uninstalls to cleanup a slow computer.
Now before you jump the gun, I'm not talking about Windows the operating system being full of bloat, although it may be …
Tue 08 May 2012 | tags: accountservice, accountsservice, dbus, Gnome3, Linux, simplicity, unix, -- (permalink)
Today I had the joy of trying to change a users desktop environment from Gnome, to Cinnamon, via ssh. At first I thought it would be easy, change the default desktop environment in lightdm.conf and restart. Fail. Ok, so where is a users desktop environment preference stored? .dmrc, or …
Fri 15 July 2011 | tags: facebook, google+, googleplus, invites, social network, -- (permalink)
By now you should have heard about Google+. You may have some idea of what it is, or you may have none, so hopefully I can answer some of your questions and help you get started.
Firstly, Google+ is Google's latest entry into social networking. Already it looks much better …
Thu 02 June 2011 | tags: digital river, micro$oft, microsoft, steal, -- (permalink)
Microsoft's student "Its not stealing" campaign is supposed to make it easy for students to afford Microsoft products so they don't need to pirate them (and steal them). That's fine as long as it works and Microsoft don't steal from us!
Twice I've now attempted to place an order with …
Tue 05 April 2011 | tags: password, project honey pot, pwdhash, security, spam, -- (permalink)
I recently pushed out a new version of the GRASE Hotspot. I spent lots of time working on rewriting the splash/welcome page, and login forms so that they would work even with javascript disabled, and allow you to force it into the non javascript version if you are having …
