MATLAB Expo 2019 It was the biggest expo so far! Somewhat unexpectedly in fact. The people just kept arriving, in cars and coaches, needing seats whilst the keynote speakers engaged the audience. Tanya (recently returned from a short excursion at Sparx [https://sparx.co.uk]) introduced the whole day with her usual enthusiasm!
A new machine arrives & ghost in a container The fan-less PC arrived much more quickly than expected! They really tried to exceed expectations by indicating it might take a month and then delivering in about a week! Following that there was the minor issue of getting Ubuntu Server [https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server] on it via USB.
nginx Thinking about upgrading ghost & nginx The long dark tea-time of the soul (otherwise known as winter) is currently underway and so there is more time to spend on computing at home. I've been considering when and how to upgrade my ghost install, and possibly to update nginx as well. In addition I'
git Local github got all messed up It appears to be about 2 years since I set up the local github on the my internal network. Thank goodness for timestamps on blog posts! I've used it a bit, mostly for holding onto the code for the various websites I've created (see cookbook.bedewell.
git Setting up a github locally I've wanted to allow all the machines locally (on my intranet) to access a single github repository without needing direct write access to the files that actually host the repo. Fortunately, I found this [http://railsware.com/blog/2013/09/19/taming-the-git-daemon-to-quickly-share-git-repository/] how-to that I adapted to ensure
node.js Upgrade nodejs and ghost I had no idea this was going to be such a monumental pain. I happened to be looking at the the versions of ghost, and possibly other ways of running the blog; and decided to spend the afternoon upgrading to the latest version of ghost. Interestingly I happened to also
Tunnelling SSH via uPnP The RaspPi that is going to act as the rsync server in the previous post needs to have SSH available from its internet connection. There are several ways we could arrange this. One obvious way would be to ensure that the DHCP server it acquires its IP address from gives
Setting-up a Remote Backup Rsync Server Tish continues to tell me we need an off-site backup solution for a large portion of the data we hold on the NAS. She's probably not wrong! So I've recently been thinking about how to do this. I've decided to go down the Rasp
The Cambridge Beer Festival Web Service I love the Cambridge Beer Festival. Well really, I love the beer, and the festival simply gives us lots of it! To help guide us around the beers at the festivel is the Android app written by my friend and colleague Rich Alcock. You can imagine, I'm sure,
node.js Up and running on a Raspberry Pi It's been a while. I know! The major problem was that running the blog and the web-site on the NAS device, alongside all the other services it supported was really cutting into the load on the NAS. So I'd decided that I wouldn't run
First cycle to work of the season All the stars, wind, weather and state of mind aligned correctly this morning ... and I cycled to work for the first time this year. As always the first time each year is a total arse, and the Strava recording [http://www.strava.com/activities/133280212] shows this. The evening return
Enable Terratec S/PDIF with Windows 7 Our main screen machine is pretty old! Built back at the end of 2006 I've upgraded it several times. At some point we purchased a Terratec Aureon 5.1 sound card to output S/PDIF to the amp. During the upgrade to windows 7 this proved to be
QNAP Getting Ghost to work on a QNAP NAS Somehow, and I don't really remember how, I heard about the micro-blogging platform Ghost [http://ghost.org]. I suppose I imagined that such a product might provide hosting and such-like for free. So I signed up to find out when it would be available. Sometime later I got
