My 2-year-old has Type 1 Diabetes. This is a condition that requires constant monitoring, so that insulin can be administered at the right time and in the right doses to ensure he doesn’t die. When he was first diagnosed, we … Continue reading
Your external IP can be a useful thing to know. Perhaps you want to SSH into a box within your network, access a web server or some other service, or even update a domain’s DNS to point to your home … Continue reading
So, A Lesson in ensuring you check site content, instead of just the front page. A Plugin had decided that it wasn’t going to play ball any more, but instead of failing gracefully, and simply stop itself from Showing, decided … Continue reading
A week or so ago we had a Nest Thermostat installed. It’s quite clever – learning when you are in, out and awake, and estimating a heating profile for those times. It needed some tweaking, sure, but it did a … Continue reading
This weekend, aside from various childrens parties, my uncle asked me to take a look at a laptop, and install Linux on it. It is my cousin’s, had previously had Windows 8 installed, but they were unable to reinstall it … Continue reading
It seems that when I created my first post on Monitoring the Currentcost Envir I omitted some details. This discovery came when trying to move the Currentcost monitoring over to a Raspberry Pi, and led to me looking everything up again … Continue reading
Don’t do what I did, and leave a live USB drive in your PC when upgrading distribution from Xubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 – especially when your PC has a quirk where it will not boot from this particular USB drive … Continue reading
I wanted a way to easily import Internet radio streams into MPC, and then be able to easily change the station to the next one in the playlist.
At the weekend, my latest gadgety purchase arrived, a Currentcost EnviR – This smallish device connects to its own wireless transmitter, which uses a current clamp round your live wire at the electricity meter to measure the amount of electricity … Continue reading
I’ve been fairly quiet on here recently – mostly due to messing around with things that I wouldn’t consider geeky enough for here. A quick summary of the things I have tinkered with though: I moved my server downstairs, as … Continue reading