by Dean | Dec 7, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I have been wanting to change My Book It from a default of HTTP to a default of HTTPS. While doing this I also wanted to ensure that everything kept working for the users to prevent issues. (or at least minimize them). For this to run smoothly I needed to do a number...
by Dean | Nov 9, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Microsoft, Tutorial, Virtualisation, VMWare
My home lab is a single workstation that runs the free version of ESXi. I don’t really have much of a need for more then that so I don’t want to go spending large amounts of money on licences etc that I really am not going to make good use of. So today...
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 | Sep 6, 2015 | General IT, IPv6, IT, Misc, Networking
In my last post I talked about how I have set-up a IPv6 Tunnel to SixXS from my home router. With this all up and running I could now look at getting my LAN clients onto IPv6. I run a few networks at home, 1 for my general devices, 1 for wireless devices and guests...
by Dean | Aug 15, 2015 | General IT, IPv6, IT, Networking
Now that IPv6 is a thing on the internet I decided that it would be a good idea for me to learn the basics on how it works and how it can be applied to customer networks. There is no better way to learn a technology then to jump in and get yourself dirty with it. So...
