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 | 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 | 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 | 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...