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How to install Cacti on CentOS 6 30 Jul 2013 | 05:53 pm
It has been far too long since a video tutorial made its debut here, so I would like to introduce a new tutorial! Cacti is a great graphing and monitoring tool, but I have struggled in the past with ...
Teaching Computer Security Basics 29 Jun 2013 | 06:48 pm
Over the past few years, I have ended up coming into contact with many computers belonging to individuals. My reason for doing so has varied, but usually I am helping them with something unrelated to ...
Valuing Corporate Values 24 May 2013 | 03:19 pm
Much is said about Google’s “don’t be evil” corporate motto. That is not what this post is about. This is about corporate values — and a (rather smaller) company I have found myself appreciating becau...
Horse 1 May 2013 | 02:19 am
I have missed Instagram’s filters since it was gobbled up by Facebook — a change which meant I could not continue using it. So, it is nice to have similar functionality in Path. The added bonus is tha...
Telephone box 1 Apr 2013 | 01:10 am
You just don’t see ’em anymore, especially not in full working order!
Restoring a Windows 8 Bootloader 28 Feb 2013 | 08:26 pm
To cut a long story short, post-upgrade, I felt I didn’t really need a separate Windows Server 2008 R2 partition so I deleted it and expanded Windows 8 to fill the space. Only to find that Windows now...
Cleaning up the IP.Board url4short mess 15 Jan 2013 | 04:46 pm
My friend Niall Brady dropped me an email, saying that some of the users of his Windows-Noob forums were reporting getting redirected to a spammy-looking site (url4short dot info) when clicking on sea...
Protecting your browsing with Certificate Patrol for Firefox 6 Jan 2013 | 12:56 am
I read this BBC News story about mistakenly issued security certificates recently, which allowed the people with those certificates to impersonate any Google websites and intercept traffic to them. It...
Raspberry Pi 31 Dec 2012 | 02:50 pm
In other 2012 gadget acquisition news, I got my hands on a Raspberry Pi this year, too. Ordered in the summer, and only delivered last month, due to the high demand, it is something I have not yet had...
iPad mini 30 Nov 2012 | 02:50 pm
Ever since its initial release, the absence of an iPad, or indeed any kind of tablet device, from my computing devices was notable. After all, this was the ‘future’ — and I was just getting left behin...
