Day 63 – 2014

Day 63 – 2014

Setup a new fire wall on an old PC I had around!  Seems to be working well do far.  Using PFSense – takes a while and makes a difference if you read the instructions!  All up and running so far – next is to get the VPN up and...
Day 10 – 2013

Day 10 – 2013

Resurrecting a WD MyBook Live So I managed to kill the Guvnors NAS box and have now resurrected it. How to repair it (with a backup before hand) because we really don’t want to loose his data. Step 1: We need to remove the hard drive from is enclosure: (hey...
Day 10 – 2013

Day 8 – 2013

Today has been a day of tinkering with media boxes and Live TV. I have been using a raspberry pi and a g-box midnight as media boxes at home and running mythtv on an ubuntu box for a while now, however I have been having a lot of trouble with the cmyth client on both...
Day 10 – 2013

Day 37 – 2011

Oh the joys of upgrades! On Friday the GreatGothNinja and I decided that as we were offered the upgrade to Oneiric Ocelot on our office systems to take the bull by its horns and go ahead.  The upgrade itself was smooth, however getting the desktops into a working...