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 | Apr 17, 2016 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, PHP
So in my last post I setup and configured EHCP onto a Raspberry Pi. I thought this would be a good and easy way to run a web server from home. The installation was fairly straight forward and it all seemed like it was good except I remembered that I work in IT and I...
by Dean | Apr 8, 2016 | General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, PHP
It has been a while since I have put a post onto here so I thought I would get back into it by installing EHCP onto a raspberry pi. (The original model B). I figured that the specs are not much worse off then a cheap web host and it would be a good idea to replace my...
by Dean | Jan 13, 2016 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, Networking, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I was talking to someone the other day about the security of My Book It. It is something that I have always tried to build into the program with everything that I do. So far I think that I am doing a pretty good job of the security of the data. But as I was talking...
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...
