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May/15

Living With Hive (Home)

Filed Under Houseware, Review at 25th May 2015 0:01 by

Overview Hive is a British Gas creation which allows remote control of your home water and heating control by replacing your thermostat and timer controls. It’s a step into home automation which we have had for over a year and … Continue reading →

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Apr/15

OpenVPN Server On Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Linux at 27th April 2015 0:01 by

Overview Having a great geek out chat with Andrew Gorton and he gave me the idea of setting up an OpenVPN server using a Raspberry Pi. A simple, relatively cheap solution to get access to resources at home. Pre-Requisites I … Continue reading →

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Apr/15

Deluge BitTorrent Client On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 13th April 2015 0:01 by

Overview Deluge is a bit torrent client which uses a client-server like architecture. The cool thing is you can have the server locally (like this install) or remote and just use the client to manage the queue. Install Add the … Continue reading →

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Mar/15

Communal USB Charge Point

Filed Under Blog, Hardware at 23rd March 2015 0:01 by

Overview I’m an Android user and have converted everyone in the house hold to be the same. As a convenience thing I decided to use one of the spare wall socket to USB plugs and put a micro USB cable … Continue reading →

02

Mar/15

Virtualbox Stopped Working After Installing Hypervisor

Filed Under Windows at 2nd March 2015 0:01 by

I got the message when I tried to run one of my VMs and got this or similar message about 64bit support: VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit … Continue reading →

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Feb/15

FreePBX ARI Framework Disabled

Filed Under Linux, PBX at 16th February 2015 0:01 by

I upgraded to FreePBX 12 and had the following disabled moduled: amportal a ma delete fw_ari -f amportal a ma download fw_ari -f amportal a ma install fw_ari -f Running the above in sequence then going back to the web … Continue reading →

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Feb/15

Windows file name(s) are too long

Filed Under Windows at 3rd February 2015 21:55 by

I wanted to delete some Windows 8 store cache files but an error came up when I tried to delete them from Explorer. I found a cool way to get around this as Windows have a limitation of not just … Continue reading →

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Feb/15

Flashing Nexus 7 2013 4.4 to Android 5.0 Lollipop

Filed Under Mobile Phone, Windows at 2nd February 2015 0:01 by

Overview Flashing a new OS onto a tablet requires a computer and and USB cable so it doesn’t require a lot. All the stock images from Google are freely available to download. This is provided as a guide only and … Continue reading →