I can never find the bloody instructions for the light on our Biorb fish tank and it’s not the most intuitive piece of equipment I’ve ever used so I thought I’d stick the instructions here so I’d always know where I can find them. The Intelligent Light Manual & Programming Instructions Just plug the…
Get Email Alerts For Root Login Events
As I’ve already stated in previous posts, I’m a bit of a paranoid server operator. I’m responsible for several servers that are sat out there on the big bad internet of things and I like to know what’s happening with them. One of the biggest areas of concern is SSH access. Most people don’t bother…
Bluebells & Sunshine
As you can see from the picture above, the woodland was looking great for the Long Eaton Field Archers open shoot. Unfortunately, the only camera I had with me was my on my iPhone so the picture really doesn’t do the scene justice. Still, it gave me something to do to pass the time we…
Whitby Pier
Taken after a brief storm passes out to sea
WordPress, BackWPUP and SELINUX
I’ve been using the BackWPup plugin to back up my wordpress sites after a recent mishap. It seem to be one of the best free plugins that will take a full backup of a wordpress site. It not only backs up the backend database but also the entire file system. One of the best things…
Whitby Harbour
Taken at dusk
Scottish 50/50 Championships
The 2014 Scottish 50/50 Championships were held on the 19th and 20th April in Parton, near Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway. As always, they were hosted by Auld Kirk Bowmen. What was unusual was that this year would be the last year of the competition. I’ve only been shooting the Scottish Championships since 2009…
Free DNS Services
As part of moving this website to a new server in order to try and speed things up a tad, I had to change some DNS records on several of the domains I own. I’ve mostly been using the free control panel provided by my domain registrar to mange the basic DNS records associated with…
New Blog
After noticing a considerable slow down on my old blog, I’ve redesigned and re-launched it on a new server. I hope you like the new layout, as you can see there is already some new material here and I’ve also copied over some of the old material. I’m in the process of getting a new…