The Plusnet Hub One and webscraping for fun and profit
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…
Nest Thermostat, APIs and RRDTool
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…
A quick tip when upgrading your distribution…
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…
Monitoring the Currentcost Envir
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…
Android 4.0 (ICS) on the Desire HD with Cyanogenmod 9
My Desire HD is getting long in the tooth. I've been waiting for the Ice Cream Sandwich update ever since HTC announced it would be "coming soon". Well, for me,…
XBMC on the Raspberry Pi
After a failed attempt a few weeks ago, I tried installing XBMC on my Pi yesterday evening (as per this forum post). All went well, but after using it for a…
Upgrade problems…
Okay, so the first round of updates (10.10 to 11.04) didn't go so well. I'm typing this up at my main PC next to my server, which has been hit…
Time to Upgrade…
With Ubuntu 12.04 on the horizon, it looks like it may be time to upgrade my trusty fileserver. It's currently running 10:10 - I originally held off because I was…
Scan-to-Email using a sendmail relay
Last week, I got a printer from Freecycle. It's a Samsung CLX-3160FN Multi-function colour laser. I got it because A) it was free, B) it had a scanner, C) it…