by Dean | Apr 3, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
One of the big things I wanted to be able to do was to host my own websites etc from my test gear. This will allow me to run different configurations and be able to optimize some websites in terms of automatic setup etc. There was only one problem, I am on a home ADSL...
by Dean | Mar 29, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, Security, Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that I have my remote access machine up and running it is time to install the VPN modules into it to get remote access to my network. In my previous post I mentioned that I was going to use IPSEC/L2TP VPN. After some thought and investigation I decided to change...
by Dean | Mar 26, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Security
So now that I have my test machine in place the first thing I want to do is setup secure remote access to my private network. This should also cover the ability to route my traffic via my home when out and about if necessary. (for example overseas, or public WiFi...
by Dean | Mar 22, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
So my web hosting is coming up for renewal shortly and I have been considering what options I have in terms of renewing it given the creation of My Book It. I need something fairly flexible and considered the option to migrate to a VPS type solution. But before I move...
by Dean | Feb 10, 2014 | Error, General IT, IT, Microsoft, Skydrive
There is a lot of talk about issues with Sky Drive and Windows 8.1. Came across one issue where the metro app worked fine, but sync was not occurring between Sky Drive and the local machine. The customer reported that it was working fine a few days ago, and that there...
by Dean | Feb 6, 2014 | General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
So the addition of the permissions are all working. The users have permissions, the groups have permissions we have lots of permissions in the database. So how do we use them? To do this we first need to get the permissions out of the database and into a format that I...
