Little bits of information someone might find useful, or not
As part of an ongoing home network project, i’m trying to set up an IPsec VPN mesh between different sites – e.g. my own home, family home and VPS hypervisor located in an offsite datacentre. The reasoning behind this? Because I can and because it’s fun! To allow for easier resource sharing and remote diagnosis. To allow for an always-on VPN...
WordPress is a very powerful yet accessible platform. It powers many blogs and websites, including this one. However, many WordPress sites can often be slow to load and navigate. For a user, this is frustrating and will often result in them leaving the site and going elsewhere. This isn’t WordPress’s fault per-se, a lot of optimisations are simply not possible out of...
In a previous post, I explained how to install and configure the Dibbler DHCPv6 client, which is necessary for using IPv6 at certain providers such as online.net. Perplexingly, I could only get the client to run interactively and not as a service. This meant that I would need to make sure that I ran the client every time the server started,...
As part of the ongoing TV streaming project i’m working on, I tried a new DVB-T tuner (the August DVB-T210). Whilst it is supported by the Linux TV project, support is only available in kernel version 3.14 and newer. At the time of writing, Kernel 3.14 is so new that it only received a stable release a week ago. Naturally, no Linux...
I recently had an interesting request from some relatives – they wanted to be able to watch TV in the kitchen. A simple task I thought, I grabbed an old analogue TV, digital set-top box and internal aerial. Unfortunately, despite the post-switchover boost in transmission power, the signal received was just slightly too weak to be useful, resulting in only...
