While I was away skiing this year I got into conversation with a few people in our chalet – all of whom use and love Ski Tracks by CoreCorders. On evening it came up...

This morning I thought to take advantage of the long weekend and update my Zimbra installation – this didn’t go as well as expected. Instead I ended up with a corrupted server. I was...

Today I’m releasing version 0.0.4 of Core. This is a maintenance and consolidation release banking all the changes from 0.0.1. Before anyone starts to wonder, versions 0.0.2 & 0.0.3 were never released. Core’s been artificially accelerated to 0.0.4 – not deliberate, but I cant be bothered going back now.

I’ve been using my Fitbit every day without break since I first got it in June 2012 and while the Fitbit dashboard is good, offering everything you could ever want, I felt the need...

This week I came accross a strange problem in Windows 10, and since I’m likly to have the same problem in future I thought it worth to record what happened – and how I...

I love the idea of home automation. Ever since the early days of Star Trek when they could get back to their room and tell the computer what they want – lights, music …...

How do I stop Rsync using all my bandwidth? If you use rsync to move large or just a large number of files from one machine to another, ether over the internet or your...

This is a new one. I was asked today by someone to explain why files were missing from the Samba file server. Sadly in the end I wasn’t able to find out why simple...

This weekends project is setting up a Raspberry Pi as an online Bitcoin wallet. As you might the first step has been installing Bitcoin Core. There is no binary Bitcoin available for the Raspberry...

This is a very simple LUUP snippet. The Vera has a handy function .is_night() which, as you’d expect, simply returns true or false depending on if its day or night. Vera doesn’t need an...

My trusty Panasonic BL-C10 IP camera finally failed after years of faithful service, so I went online searching for a replacement. After some searching I came across the Tenvis Mini319W for a low budget...

This is part two of my series on creating your own, private, VPN server at home using a Raspberry Pi. If you have followed on from my Raspberry Pi Powered OpenVPN – Server post...

I have searched online for an archive of this post but to no avail. In the end I found this YouTube video by Ultimate Handyman in which he has done a far better job of showing how to replace the CMOS battery in the Acer laptop than I ever did.

I mentioned in a previous post that I had a spare Raspberry Pi. It’s taken me a while to finish but I’ve managed to turn it into a portable OpenVPN server. A VPN, or...