For a while, I have been considering building a NAS to add to my network. I have a laptop which I mostly interact with, a virtual machine which is my main 24/7 server, a desktop on which I play games, and a number of other devices dotted around. While the … Continue reading
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA512 Date: 2015-03-10 For a number of reasons, I’ve recently set up a new OpenPGP key, and will be transitioning away from my old one. The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I prefer all future correspondence to come to … Continue reading
“How long does my password have to be to be uncrackable?” This question was asked recently on IRC. The person asking it was, no doubt, expecting a simple answer such as “20 characters” or “32 letters, numbers, and punctuation”, but I wondered if there was a proper answer to this. … Continue reading
I use tmux quite heavily on my server now. I like it so much, in fact, that I have my shell configured to connect to (or start) a session as soon as I log in. So, however I log in (at the console, in a terminal emulator, via SSH), I … Continue reading
TWRP is a recovery image for Android devices. That is, it’s a tiny, self-contained operating system that you can boot to (often, by holding a button while booting the device) and perform operations such as backups, restores and installation of other images. One nice feature of TWRP is that it’s … Continue reading
So, by mistake, I installed some of the servers at work without a graphical desktop. Now, the easy thing would have been to re-install from the DVD (and this is generally what I did), but for one of them, I’d see if I could actually install and configure the necessary … Continue reading
As I mentioned earlier, I have a small (embedded style) computer that I want to use for some monitoring. My suspicion is that the SSD that’s fixed into it is causing problems, so I want to be able to boot the computer diskless (that is, I want to load the … Continue reading
Well, I’ve managed to knock down one of the tasks that’s been on my “TODO” list for a while, thanks to finding someone building PDNS debs from git. Background I live with another geek. When we moved in together, both of us had our own domains, with DHCP servers giving … Continue reading
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Donald Knuth As part of updating my WordPress Installation for the arrival of https://paulsaunders.org.uk, I decided I’d need to add some caching in order to cope with the extra … Continue reading
IRSSI is my IRC client of choice. It’s wonderfully configurable and the interface is clean and accessible. One of the other things I’ve been playing with recently is the Powerline system of prompts. Powerline uses a clever combination of colours and a special chevron character Continue reading
