Some of you may have noticed that the blog’s been a little quiet lately. Partly that’s down to the day job turning a bit more physical (less time sat at a keyboard, more time stood in front of / behind a rack); partly that’s down to me having an idea … Continue reading
Inspired by some examples on the Tasker Wiki, I decided it’d be nice to make my new Android phone speak the weather to me in the morning. The current examples, while great demonstrations of the power of Tasker, didn’t seem quite right to me. The language produced by chopping up … Continue reading
One of the issues of moving to a Multisite WordPress setup was managing the robots.txt and sitemap.xml files. robots.txt is a text file that lives at the root of a website (so, in my case, at http://paulsaunders.org.uk/robots.txt); search engines are supposed to read that as the first stage of crawling … Continue reading
Migrating to KVM Background A few years ago, the services I provide (web server, mail server and so on) used to run on the same machine that I used as my desktop. It was powerful, spacious but it was also rather hungry on power. So, after some deliberation, I bought … Continue reading
So, following on from setting up the domain for my new blog I now need to do some preparation before making the domain available to the public. Continue reading
Welcome to my Blog. Mostly, I shall be writing up my experiences of day-to-day administration of a few linux machines on my home network. To start with, let’s look at how I went about setting up this blog. Continue reading
