Category Archives: Geek-tech

Technology – or Geek style interest..

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

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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

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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.. 😀

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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

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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

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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

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Flush, flush – and flush again.

I am not talking toilets here – although for a short while, I wish I was – it would have been less frustrating. I work and play in a LAMP environment, for example, this blog and site lives on a … Continue reading

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Drupal and Oracle….. Pain

You may or may not realise it, but my “other” site, a pure testing site, www.macgyver.yi.org runs Drupal on an Oracle database. I’ve done it to actually to learn Oracle, and give me a site I don’t care (so much) … Continue reading

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I have seen the Light(room)

Well, I blame my friend Cath…. And I am sticking to that. It is, as always with Cath, in a good way. The other week, a group of us went to RIAT on the Sunday this year for a good … Continue reading

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Daytime Running lights

Let’s start with an admission, I have an Audi RS4, it has optional Daytime Running Lights (DRL) – and on my version, they are standard incandescent (halogen) bulbs. I will also admit that I do occasionally have them turned on. … Continue reading

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