Is your wordpress site constantly subject to brute force attempts to access it? Would you even know if it is? These things are often silent as attempting to brute force your password and access your worpdress site is effectively ‘normal’ behaviour and there is no straightforward way to detect it. Given that WordPress powers c….
Continue reading →I’ve just resolved this issue (again) so thought I’d document it so that others can help themselves too. When trying to update my WordPress plugins I was getting an error telling me that the existing plugins could not be updated due to a permissions error. New plugins also couldn’t be installed. There are a couple…
Continue reading →Phew, it’s been quite a while since I updated this thing! I’ll get back into throwing stuff up here pretty regularly (maybe!). I’ve been working on a script which you can find at my github repo here: https://github.com/danteali/Slackomatic It is a pretty comprehensive tool for sending messages to Slack using their API – pretty much every…
Continue reading →Just thought I’d write this very brief how to since I needed to do this tonight in preparation for starting a new computer build. I want to make sure I have a list of everything on the old computer so that I can re-install everything I need on the new computer. Open Powershell by starting…
Continue reading →Have you ever wanted your TV or monitor to have lights behind them reflecting what is on the screen, like those fancy expensive Philips TVs? Apparently they are called Ambilights 🙂 Lighting up the wall behind the screen is a brilliant way to add more ambience and makes the watching movies/TV so much more immersive….
Continue reading →There are times when we want to run a batch file, program or command from the Windows command prompt but we don’t want the command prompt window to appear or to hang around on the desktop. For example, I have a batch script which backs up a load of files and it is triggered by…
Continue reading →There are lots of online tools for checking your ISP provided internet speed. Most are web based interfaces and there are some great ones out there. The most popular is probably www.speedtest.net, but we also have www.fast.com, www.speedof.me, … even Google let’s you do it directly from its search page (you have to search using US-based…
Continue reading →Originally posted on 10th July 2015 and updated on 11th May 2016: There has been some controversy recently about StartSSL and their key management practices. You can google it and read up if you want but I’m going to continue using them since it’s easy, free and I’m just after the simplest of domain validation keys to make…
Continue reading →UPDATE (May 2018): A newer version of TraktForVLC has been released – here It makes everything MUCH easier. Use this new version. Simply install from the command prompt (use an administrator cmd prompt – search for cmd in the Windows menu, right click and select run as administrator). I usually use Plex for viewing Movies &…
Continue reading →I almost exclusively use nano for my text editing needs but unfortunately it doesn’t have great options enabled by default and it has limited syntax highlighting for writing any code. This can be fixed fairly easily. Nano has a config file located at /etc/nanorc which can be edited to enable changes for all users. To…
Continue reading →I wanted to make a list of my owned movies in Excel (for reasons we’ll not bother going into now) so after much Googling I managed to find a way to pull a list from Plex from here, documenting it here so that I can come back to it later if I need to. Using…
Continue reading →For this project I made a lamp for my ‘reading corner’ using a Raspberry Pi which I had lying around and a string of RGB lights I got from ebay (). It utilises the Hyperion implementation to control the LEDs and can be controlled from my phone or from a web app running on the Pi….
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