The Pods
Renting around here is a nightmare!!! Why? Because property owner don't want short term rentals, they want 2 years and up! They don't allow pets! 4 bedroom houses turn out to be 3 bedroom houses with no dining rooms or in one case no lounge. Having the best part of 6...
The Cleanup
A couple of days after the fire the insurers arranged for the house to be completely surrounded by scaffolding, and a temporary roof put on. This has saved the property from a whole load of secondary damage what with the awful weather we have had over the last couple...
The House Fire
As some of you know we suffered a house fire on the 20th May this year. The fire took out the entire roof and water damage totalled the rest of the building. The fire was caused by the solar panel inverter which was situated in a walk-in loft. At this point I want to...
Updating Droplet from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 with ispconfig installed on it
Take a backup 🙂 run do-os-update apt install php-cgi php-fpm apt install linux-image-4.4.0-28 linux-headers-4.4.0-28 (this is because digital ocean don't have 4.4.0-66 at the moment) reboot if the file system is mounted read only you'll need to do blkid which gave...
ISP-Config 3 default settings
To change the defaults in the web site section you need to edit /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/web/sites/form/web_domain.tform.php find and replace 'default' => 'webalizer', with 'default' => 'awstats', do the same with 'default' => 'fast-cgi', to 'default'...
Adding SphinxSE to MySQL on ubuntu server
Unfortunately installing sphinx search on Ubuntu using apt-get does not install the SphinxSE engine in MySQL. To do that we need to build it from source. We can do that using the following steps: Ensure that the build-essential packages are installed, as...
Poetweet
Following on from a recent post by @GothNinja I paid a visit to Poetweet and this is one of the results! The first two verses went well but I think it probably shows that most of the stuff I do on twitter is quite odd!
Battle for the net
What is net neutrality? Why does it matter? Net neutrality is the principle that everyone should have access to websites and apps, preventing Internet providers like Comcast & Verizon from creating “fast lanes,” censoring content, throttling traffic and even...
Building a vsphere system on windows server 2012
This is a step by step list – that unfortunately I never got around to finishing.
Fail2Ban monitoring MySQL
Some notes and recipes for fail2ban and MySQL.
A new toy – Um – Now to test it!
A brief ramble about my new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition Tablet
