The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
A couple of years ago I ran a 2-part series for our church’s Wednesday evening bible study titled “What actually is the Bible?”. The goal was to answer three essential questions: What actually is the Bible itself (the “canon of scripture”)? Where does it come from? How is it in English? What is a Bible […]
Continue ReadingI’ve toyed with several titles for this LinkedIn article. “Why I have a phobia of ordering in MacDonalds” was one, along with “Dyslexia: the pain is real!”, “10 things only dyslexics will appreciate” and “Why I’m always late for that meeting…” This isn’t a super-serious reflection on life – I intend it to be a […]
Continue ReadingAnyone who knows me knows how utterly frustrating I find the state of email today. It’s inherently insecure, absolutely relied upon, and there’s always someone who “didn’t get your email”. For larger businesses the offerings by Microsoft and the alike (Office365 for example) make sense. For me however – it’s Courier-MTA on a Debian box. […]
Continue ReadingI don’t wish this to be a rant, and I wish it to be far from fuel for the flame wars which have been burning for several decades over open source projects which transform into “mostly closed” and very non-free “products”. Read more over on my LinkedIn post…
Continue ReadingAfter months of frustration – having our outbound emails randomly fail for distribution groups (alias lists in Courier MTA terminology) – I found the cause. Our SMTP smarthost doesn’t allow multiple “RCPT TO:” commands in an email header. By default, Courier batches up all emails forwarded to the same domain name. There’s a switch to […]
Continue ReadingA few of us today at work discussed the upcoming Apple Watch (pre-orders from 10th April) and the topic of water-proofing came up. A little research on Google reveals no “definitive” answer, so I took matters into my own hands and hunted the main official Apple Watch (web-)pages for any hint. Sure enough I found […]
Continue ReadingNearly a year since I last blogged. Phew, caught it just in time 😉 First time this year (2013) I got to drive home without my lights on. The clocks haven’t even gone back yet! Woo-hoo for springtime 🙂 So today’s topic, CKEditor and A4 paper. Mmm-hmm. Letter paper, A4, A5, in fact any size. […]
Continue ReadingI have a ReadyNAS Duo, and several Mac devices backing up to it (via the typically “Apple awesome” Time Machine feature). I recently upped the allocated disk space in FrontView to 300GB, from 120GB – which while each Mac’s Time Machine preferences said “NAS device, 300GB” – claimed the disk didn’t have enough “temporary space” […]
Continue ReadingWhat a week. What a month. What a year. So much has happened, far more than I could or should ever write about. Recently we’ve been migrating MySQL servers from one hardware to another – for anyone (me!) that finds this useful in the future, firstly “Hello, and I hope the future is better than […]
Continue Reading*sigh* It’s been for several weeks that I’ve been trying (and failing) to aquire Domain Admin status on our Samba domain. With Windows 2000 and XP, administrative access was easy. A local admin account called “administrator”, and a local policy stating who’s an administrator – all peachy. You can tell I’m not a Windows administrator […]
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