Blog hosting wonderings…
A while back I had an e-mail from my web hosting company saying they were increasing the price for the package I was using. This got me thinking about whether the route I’d taken for hosting was the...
View ArticleRecovering encrypted filesystems
Boot from Live CD / USB Decrypt the filesystem cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 *hostname* Mount filesystems mount /dev/dm-2 /mnt mount /dev/dm-3 /mnt/home mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount --bind /dev...
View ArticleReview of Elasticsearch Server 2nd Edition
Elasticsearch Server Second Edition is a good book to read if you’re getting started with Elasticsearch or considering using it. It goes through all the main areas of getting your data indexed and then...
View ArticleTraffic Pi
Using my Raspberry Pi, Piglow and the traffic API feeds I have created a script to give me a visual representation of the journey time to work. This gives me an idea of the traffic before I leave the...
View ArticleDisabling SSLv3
With POODLE the time has come to disable SSLv3 everywhere. There will be clients that break and need fixing but it needs doing. You can read more details and background on the vulnerability. Here’s a...
View ArticleGreat South Run 2014
Great South Run weekend is here! Today we had the 5k run which Laura, Anne and Des took part in and all did very well, and Abi’s 1.5k Mini Run – even Jessica was enjoying running on the race track they...
View ArticleAutomatically publish your API when you push to github
In less than half an hour I could update my project to automatically publish my API in the new IBM API Management beta – Here’s the steps… Sign up for the new API Management beta, just click through to...
View ArticleHatching chicks at school
At Jessica’s school, where I am a governor and Laura works, they’ve got an incubator of eggs from Living Eggs, so that the school can watch as they hatch into chicks. On Monday I got a text from Laura...
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