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X100 Expansion Board

Posted on 19 January 2014 by Scott Evans

Recently I purchased this X100 expansion board for my Raspberry Pi, mainly for its HDMI to VGA output but the RS232 port was of interest assuming that it works as I expect it should! The kit includes the following items … Continue reading →

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Gremlin in the Server!

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Scott Evans

Over the last few days I’ve noticed that my web server has been a little unreliable. As usual there’s nothing obvious in the logs to recommend just what the cause might be. I’ve made some changes via ISPConfig and it’s … Continue reading →

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Oops WordPress 3.5alpha

Posted on 5 September 2012 by Scott Evans

I’ve uploaded to the latest nightly (as of writing) and it appears that page links are broken. Posts are fine so will have to await for tomorrow’s build to see  if this is fixed, or I’ll need to file a … Continue reading →

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Living on the bleeding edge

Posted on 26 May 2012 by Scott Evans

For some time now I’ve been using Arch Linux for my desktop pc. For those who have no idea what that is/means then go back to your coffee/tea and come back in 5 minutes! No seriously, Arch is just a … Continue reading →

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Trial use of WPGplus

Posted on 2 February 2012 by Scott Evans

One of the frustrating things about Google+ is the lack of an API for developers to be able to write 3rd party plugins for either posting to or reading from Google+ It’s been a while now since I last checked … Continue reading →

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What's With Port 70 ??? (Gopher)

Posted on 22 January 2012 by Scott Evans

Ok so if you recognise the critter in this image then your half way to understanding what I’m talking about!  Port 70 is traditionally reserved for the Gopher protocol. What is Gopher? Well it’s a slim text only layout that … Continue reading →

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What’s With Port 70 ??? (Gopher)

Posted on 22 January 2012 by Scott Evans

Ok so if you recognise the critter in this image then your half way to understanding what I’m talking about!  Port 70 is traditionally reserved for the Gopher protocol. What is Gopher? Well it’s a slim text only layout that … Continue reading →

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A New Trend (StatusNet)

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Scott Evans

Since around September last year when Identi.ca was updated to the much-anticipated Status.net 1.0 it has suffered from many outages causing some people to focus on either abandoning identi.ca or hosting their own Status.net instance.  At first I wasn’t overly … Continue reading →

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Self Hosted StatusNet (aka !feds)

Posted on 4 January 2012 by Scott Evans

Well although I’m not as active as I once was on Identi.ca  I’ve decided to set up my StatusNet instance (again!) on this server. OK you just saw that “again” in brackets what’s with that? Well a while back I attempted … Continue reading →

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4th January marks 3 years!

Posted on 19 December 2011 by Scott Evans

Wow has it really been that long? I started experimenting with WordPress back in June 2008 with the intention of setting up a site for the company I was working for so that it was the were to get information … Continue reading →

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