by Tom | Apr 8, 2011 | IT
Recipe For Baked WordPress is a nice simple plugin-based way of making your site safe against visitor storms caused by external sites linking to you.
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | IT
A kind soul has packaged up CrashPlan as a QPKG making life a little easier than the slightly complicated install we previously needed. It should work for ARM with a bit of fiddling too. The JRE it requires isn’t linked on the page but is easy to...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | IT
I have been trying to turn on SSL on one of my websites now I have a (cheap at £14) RapidSSL certificate. The site (hosted on CentOS, CPanel, WHM) was working fine under HTTP, but when I tried to access using HTTPS I got a 500 Internal Server error. Looking at the...
by Tom | Mar 18, 2011 | IT
Awasu personal edition seems a little bit of overkill for, e.g., a regular download of Corrie torrents, but it does seem to work. [NB I think that my subscription to ITV Granada in HK means this is time shifting and therefore acceptable]
by Tom | Mar 15, 2011 | IT
It took a software upgrade for my TV and a spare ethernet cable, but the TV is now working the way I wanted when I bought it. You can view Twitter hashtags over the programmes they refer to, but more importantly, it reads perfectly from my NAS’s media server. It...
by Tom | Mar 14, 2011 | IT
While setting up my music again in the new flat, I found that I couldn’t add my shared music folder using the Sonos desktop controller. I was getting an authentication error saying that access was denied to the folder. I knew I could log in with the same...
