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Author Archives: Kieran
New rear shocks.
I was digging around at the back of the car, and found some moisture on both the rear shocks – not something to worry about if you’ve been driving the car on wet roads, which I hadn’t. Yeah, both rear … Continue reading
Posted in Olivia - the A3
Tagged 2002, 8L, A3 8l, Audi, Audi A3, quattro, rear shock absorber, replace., suspension
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Coffee shop relaxation
This is the result of what I was going to blog when I was relaxing and having a coffee and sarnie, by the way of a very late lunch after a morning TKD session. (that incidentally was a sweat box, … Continue reading
Posted in *Nix, Geek-tech, Photography, Rant, wordpress
Tagged 3G, coffee, Internet, no signal, rant, relaxation, technology fail, tethering
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Apple Time Capsule Repair (Part 1)
Yes, of course, I am talking about an Apple Time Capsule, which, as we all know, are a little too prone to expiring a little young. Well, I am an owner of one of these afflicted devices, the downside is that I used it both as a backup device, and as a wireless access point, so, in one go, I’ve lost two useful devices. Well, as my alter ego MacGyver has a knack of resurrecting dead hardware and technology, I figured I would try some to work some Lazarus style resurrection on my Time Capsule. Continue reading
Posted in *Nix, Geek-tech, Rant
Tagged Apple, Bad Design, capacitor, fan, Faulty, over heating, power supply, PSU, repair, replacement, Time Capsule
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My first 10k
Well, it’s over…. I wasn’t expecting a hugely fast time, after all, it was my first race for any reason, except cross country at school, which is an ever faster rapidly fading distant memory. This event, was part of the … Continue reading
Social media integration
I am having a little play at the moment, and seeing if I can integrate this site with various social media sites, like Facebook… …. So, here is the first post with that in mind.. 😀
Posted in *Nix, Geek-tech, Photography, wordpress
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Ads…….
Well, it’s kinda annoying in a way, but I do really need to look at trying to re-coup some cost of running this site, and other sites and things I do, so, apologies, kinda, of putting some ads on the … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, wordpress
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I’ve entered a 10k race……. (I must be mad)
For those of you who know me personally, I’ve been through periods in life in the not too distant past where it is fair to say I have been somewhat on the large side. Well, stepping onto those scales sometime … Continue reading
Is it raining in the cloud ?
I’m in the cloud, and I am getting cold and wet, it’s raining in my cloud. Cloud services are supposed to be the saviour for corporations, and, I dare say there are a lot of really good real world examples … Continue reading
Posted in *Nix, Geek-tech, Home, Photography
Tagged ADSL, AWS, bandwidth, broadband, BT, cloud, fibre, FTTC, Google Apps, home networking, hosting, Office 365, slow network, unix
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Facepalm – sudoers not working
DOH!!!!! Always remember to check the command you are asking to be run as sudo… Here I was the other day, setting up nagios nrpe agents on a new server at work, and I kept getting “NRPE Unknown” errors in … Continue reading
Posted in *Nix, Geek-tech
Tagged broken, error, facepalm, files exist, nagios, nrpe, sudo, why doesn't it work
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Upgrading Drupal on Oracle (again)
drush vset maintenance_mode 0 Doesn’t bloody work with an Oracle install. Typical. Well – today I don’t have the time nor the inclination to get to investigate, so, went in via the GUI, and set to maintenance mode. Then I … Continue reading