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Category Archives: *Nix
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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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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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
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
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
Posted in *Nix, Geek-tech, Photography
Tagged awesome landscape photographs, http://www.cathevans.com, Lightroom, linux, OSX, Photography, Photoshop
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