by Dean | Sep 5, 2016 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, Hacking, Misc, Watching
I have recently pick up a BlackVue dash cam. Overall I am extremely happy with the device, it does just as it should do and faithfully records the view from my windshield day and night, driving or parked. The quality of the video is great and it has some great Wi-Fi...
by Dean | Jul 16, 2016 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, monitoring, Tutorial
It has been a while since I have posted anything. So I thought I would go through the setup of my Solar monitoring. When I got my solar system I noticed that the Inverter had a RS232 connector on it. While it was being installed I was talking with the installers about...
by Dean | Sep 27, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, PHP, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I have been looking into SSL certificates for My Book It. When the site was being created, it was decided that My Book It would use sub domains to provide the school with the ability to have their school name at the start of the address. (I think this is a fairly...
by Dean | Sep 11, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IPv6, IT, Linux, Misc, Security
So now that my IPv6 setup is installed and has been working for a few weeks I thought it might be a good idea to go through a few gotcha’s. To be absolutely honest there was only one big one that kinda caused all my issues. (Which is actually kind of...
by Dean | Aug 9, 2015 | Crazy Idea, IT, Linux, Misc, PHP, Programming
So I started working on the Timezone support within My Book It. While in theory it all sounded great, in practice it was an absolute nightmare to try and get working by recording the offset and then working out the difference with the current offset. (As explained in...
by Dean | Jun 23, 2015 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
After much thought and consideration about the whole process and what needs to be done. I then wanted to start testing to see how this might start to look in the web app. This post will cover some of the thought and testing process I used to work through how the...
