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Cycling to Carnforth via the Trough of Bowland

A cycling journey to Carnforth via the scenic Trough of Bowland, one of Lancashire’s most beautiful routes.

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Cycling to Carnforth via the Trough of Bowland

A cycling journey to Carnforth via the scenic Trough of Bowland, one of Lancashire’s most beautiful routes.

Blog

2024 Cycling Recap

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

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Cycling the Old Railway Lines: Bury to Rawtenstall

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

Cycling to Carnforth via the Trough of Bowland

A cycling journey to Carnforth via the scenic Trough of Bowland, one of Lancashire’s most beautiful routes.

Blog

2024 Cycling Recap

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

Cycling the Old Railway Lines: Bury to Rawtenstall

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

Blog

Cycling to Carnforth via the Trough of Bowland

A cycling journey to Carnforth via the scenic Trough of Bowland, one of Lancashire’s most beautiful routes.

Blog

2024 Cycling Recap

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

Cycling the Old Railway Lines: Bury to Rawtenstall

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

2024 Cycling Recap

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

Cycling the Old Railway Lines: Bury to Rawtenstall

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

2024 Cycling Recap

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

Blog

Cycling the Old Railway Lines: Bury to Rawtenstall

A scenic summer evening ride along the converted railway paths from Bury to Rawtenstall, taking in the beautiful Kirklees and Irwell trails.

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Cycling Bolton Abbey to Burnsall: An Impromptu Adventure in the Yorkshire Dales

When plans change unexpectedly, sometimes the best adventures emerge - a beautiful cycling journey through the Yorkshire Dales from Bolton Abbey to Burnsall.

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Cycling Bolton Abbey to Burnsall: An Impromptu Adventure in the Yorkshire Dales

When plans change unexpectedly, sometimes the best adventures emerge - a beautiful cycling journey through the Yorkshire Dales from Bolton Abbey to Burnsall.

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Cycling Bolton Abbey to Burnsall: An Impromptu Adventure in the Yorkshire Dales

When plans change unexpectedly, sometimes the best adventures emerge - a beautiful cycling journey through the Yorkshire Dales from Bolton Abbey to Burnsall.

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Cycling Bolton Abbey to Burnsall: An Impromptu Adventure in the Yorkshire Dales

When plans change unexpectedly, sometimes the best adventures emerge - a beautiful cycling journey through the Yorkshire Dales from Bolton Abbey to Burnsall.

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Terraforming Serverless

In my day job recently I’ve been rewriting AWS deployment infrastructure-as-code taking Serverless-Framework and raw Cloudformation transforming it into Terraform.

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New Site Part 3

Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN.

Blog

Terraforming Serverless

In my day job recently I’ve been rewriting AWS deployment infrastructure-as-code taking Serverless-Framework and raw Cloudformation transforming it into Terraform.

Blog

Terraforming Serverless

In my day job recently I’ve been rewriting AWS deployment infrastructure-as-code taking Serverless-Framework and raw Cloudformation transforming it into Terraform.

Blog

Terraforming Serverless

In my day job recently I’ve been rewriting AWS deployment infrastructure-as-code taking Serverless-Framework and raw Cloudformation transforming it into Terraform.

Blog

New Site Part 3

Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN.

Blog

New Site Part 3

Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN.

Blog

New Site Part 3

Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN.

Blog

New Site Part 3

Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN.

Blog

New Site Part 3

Since I setup the new version of this blog using Hugo, hosted on Cloudfront, I put together a Grafana instance to monitor traffic hitting the CDN.

Blog

Recipe: Garlic & Lemon Marinade for Chicken

First off, happy new year to everyone

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Recipe: Garlic & Lemon Marinade for Chicken

First off, happy new year to everyone

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Recipe: Garlic & Lemon Marinade for Chicken

First off, happy new year to everyone

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Aquaponics and growing update, late summer.

Hi all, been a while since I’ve posted anything, I’ve recently picked up myself a new camera.

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Sensoring Aquaponics

As part of my interest in aquaponics I’ve always intended to enable some kind of electronic monitoring, various thoughts on what to monitor and how have been in my head for a while.

Blog

Aquaponics update

Thought I’d post a quick progress report on the aquaponics setup as the build pretty much complete and the growing has commenced.

Blog

My foray into aquaponics

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were sharing YouTube videos around water harvesting, hydro electricity generation and the like.

Blog

Aquaponics and growing update, late summer.

Hi all, been a while since I’ve posted anything, I’ve recently picked up myself a new camera.

Blog

Aquaponics update

Thought I’d post a quick progress report on the aquaponics setup as the build pretty much complete and the growing has commenced.

Blog

My foray into aquaponics

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were sharing YouTube videos around water harvesting, hydro electricity generation and the like.

Blog

Aquaponics and growing update, late summer.

Hi all, been a while since I’ve posted anything, I’ve recently picked up myself a new camera.

Blog

Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

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Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

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Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

Blog

Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

Blog

Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

Blog

Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

Blog

Sensoring Aquaponics

As part of my interest in aquaponics I’ve always intended to enable some kind of electronic monitoring, various thoughts on what to monitor and how have been in my head for a while.

Blog

Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

Blog

Light control with MQTT on Arduino

It’s been a while since I stayed up most of the night writing code, mainly down to having a young daughter but also down to the fact I haven’t found anything that needed a late night hack session to produce a result.

Blog

New projects: Pi's and Arduinos

Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

Blog

Home Brewing Beer with Tech

Many moons ago, I used to brew my own beer.

Blog

Getting Fedora 21 on the Raspberry Pi 2

The recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a newer version of the ARM architecture spec, the ARM Cortex-A7 uses ARMv7 whereas the previous model ARM11 uses ARMv6.

Blog

Raspberry Pi Wildlife Camera

A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.

Blog

2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

Blog

New projects: Pi's and Arduinos

Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

Blog

Post Raspberry Jamboree Event

Let me start by saying, Saturday was a fantastic day out - even if I was there as crew not an attendee.

Blog

Raspberry Jamboree Event

image

Blog

Sensoring Aquaponics

As part of my interest in aquaponics I’ve always intended to enable some kind of electronic monitoring, various thoughts on what to monitor and how have been in my head for a while.

Blog

Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

Blog

2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

Blog

Light control with MQTT on Arduino

It’s been a while since I stayed up most of the night writing code, mainly down to having a young daughter but also down to the fact I haven’t found anything that needed a late night hack session to produce a result.

Blog

New projects: Pi's and Arduinos

Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

Blog

Sensoring Aquaponics

As part of my interest in aquaponics I’ve always intended to enable some kind of electronic monitoring, various thoughts on what to monitor and how have been in my head for a while.

Blog

Sensoring Aquaponics

As part of my interest in aquaponics I’ve always intended to enable some kind of electronic monitoring, various thoughts on what to monitor and how have been in my head for a while.

Blog

Aquaponics update

Thought I’d post a quick progress report on the aquaponics setup as the build pretty much complete and the growing has commenced.

Blog

My foray into aquaponics

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were sharing YouTube videos around water harvesting, hydro electricity generation and the like.

Blog

My foray into aquaponics

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were sharing YouTube videos around water harvesting, hydro electricity generation and the like.

Blog

My foray into aquaponics

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were sharing YouTube videos around water harvesting, hydro electricity generation and the like.

Blog

My foray into aquaponics

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were sharing YouTube videos around water harvesting, hydro electricity generation and the like.

Blog

Maplins weather station fun

weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

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Maplins weather station fun

weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

Blog

Ensure systemd services restart on failure

I wrote a post a while ago covering the use of Monit to monitor services running and the use case I covered was to ensure these services restarted on failure.

Blog

Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

Blog

Etckeeper - config version control

A valuable tool I have been using for many years is etckeeper, it works by essentially turning your /etc directory into a git repository.

Blog

SSH known hosts verification failure one liner

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

Blog

Getting Fedora 21 on the Raspberry Pi 2

The recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a newer version of the ARM architecture spec, the ARM Cortex-A7 uses ARMv7 whereas the previous model ARM11 uses ARMv6.

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Raspberry Pi Wildlife Camera

A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.

Blog

Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

Blog

Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

Blog

2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

Blog

OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

Blog

OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 1 OggCamp

Although it’s been over a week since I returned from both these events I thought I better put a little something up about them and the experiences …

Blog

Light control with MQTT on Arduino

It’s been a while since I stayed up most of the night writing code, mainly down to having a young daughter but also down to the fact I haven’t found anything that needed a late night hack session to produce a result.

Blog

New hosting for my blog

After one of my LUG colleagues mentioning about the BigV service from Bytemark I just had to try it.

Blog

Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

Blog

Post Raspberry Jamboree Event

Let me start by saying, Saturday was a fantastic day out - even if I was there as crew not an attendee.

Blog

Raspberry Jamboree Event

image

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Linux Outlaws Live in Liverpool

lol300

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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

Blog

rsync with spaces in filenames fun

While I was trying to copy a load of files from one server to another I found a problem I’ve seen time and time again, rsync with filenames that have spaces in them.

Blog

Post Virtualisation Talk

Well I finally got there, after a bout of illness causing me to postpone the talk, I finally delivered it last night.

Blog

Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

Blog

Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

Blog

Maplins weather station fun

weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

Blog

Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

Blog

Maplins weather station fun

weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

Blog

Maplins weather station fun

weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

Blog

Maplins weather station fun

weather station control unit weather station sensor pole A while ago I bought one of the Maplins weather stations, just for fun really no plans with it.

Blog

Ensure systemd services restart on failure

I wrote a post a while ago covering the use of Monit to monitor services running and the use case I covered was to ensure these services restarted on failure.

Blog

Ensure systemd services restart on failure

I wrote a post a while ago covering the use of Monit to monitor services running and the use case I covered was to ensure these services restarted on failure.

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

Blog

Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

Blog

Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

Blog

Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

Blog

Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

Blog

SSH known hosts verification failure one liner

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

Blog

Hardening SSH with OTP for 2 factor authentication

Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is look into the possibility of using 2 factor authentication, or 2FA, with SSH connections.

Blog

Etckeeper - config version control

A valuable tool I have been using for many years is etckeeper, it works by essentially turning your /etc directory into a git repository.

Blog

Etckeeper - config version control

A valuable tool I have been using for many years is etckeeper, it works by essentially turning your /etc directory into a git repository.

Blog

SSH known hosts verification failure one liner

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

Blog

rsync with spaces in filenames fun

While I was trying to copy a load of files from one server to another I found a problem I’ve seen time and time again, rsync with filenames that have spaces in them.

Blog

Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

Blog

SSH known hosts verification failure one liner

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

Blog

GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

Blog

Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

Blog

SSH known hosts verification failure one liner

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

Blog

Getting Fedora 21 on the Raspberry Pi 2

The recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a newer version of the ARM architecture spec, the ARM Cortex-A7 uses ARMv7 whereas the previous model ARM11 uses ARMv6.

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Barcamp Manchester

IMG20141018092931

Blog

2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

Blog

OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

Blog

OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 1 OggCamp

Although it’s been over a week since I returned from both these events I thought I better put a little something up about them and the experiences …

Blog

Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

Blog

GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

Blog

Getting Fedora 21 on the Raspberry Pi 2

The recent release of the Raspberry Pi 2 uses a newer version of the ARM architecture spec, the ARM Cortex-A7 uses ARMv7 whereas the previous model ARM11 uses ARMv6.

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Monit - monitor your processes and services simply

Monit is an application I’ve been meaning to setup for a while, I was first made aware of it from a chap I had the pleasure of talking to at OggCamp this year, he seemed to use it to the n’th degree to monitor files and services within docker containers to ensure a development environment was as it should be.

Blog

Barcamp Manchester

IMG20141018092931

Blog

Barcamp Manchester

IMG20141018092931

Blog

Barcamp Manchester

IMG20141018092931

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

Blog

2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

Blog

OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

Blog

GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

Blog

Post Virtualisation Talk

Well I finally got there, after a bout of illness causing me to postpone the talk, I finally delivered it last night.

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Gluster, CIFS, ZFS - kind of part 2

A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based…

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

Blog

Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Upgrade CentOS 6 to 7 with Upgrade Tools

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and C…”

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data

This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS.

Blog

Raspberry Pi Wildlife Camera

A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.

Blog

Raspberry Pi Wildlife Camera

A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.

Blog

Raspberry Pi Wildlife Camera

A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.

Blog

New projects: Pi's and Arduinos

Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

Blog

Raspberry Pi Wildlife Camera

A while ago I built a Raspberry Pi based nature camera, sometimes known as a trail camera.

Blog

Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

Blog

Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

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Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

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Installing dig on a CentOS or Red Hat machine

Gone are the days where we install nslookup for DNS resolution testing, the new(ish) kid on the block is dig.

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Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

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Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

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Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

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Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

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Arduino based Electricity monitor

Over the past 12 months or so I’ve been looking to add various “Smart House” components to my home, rather than do this in the traditional sense of buying something off-the-shelf I’ve been experimenting and building my own.

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Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

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New hosting for my blog

After one of my LUG colleagues mentioning about the BigV service from Bytemark I just had to try it.

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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

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Post Virtualisation Talk

Well I finally got there, after a bout of illness causing me to postpone the talk, I finally delivered it last night.

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

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Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

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Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

Blog

Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

Blog

Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

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New hosting for my blog

After one of my LUG colleagues mentioning about the BigV service from Bytemark I just had to try it.

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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

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Post Virtualisation Talk

Well I finally got there, after a bout of illness causing me to postpone the talk, I finally delivered it last night.

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

Blog

Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV

I recently replaced a couple of servers within a friends business with an oVirt virtualisation setup, I’m really pleased with the whole configuration which consists of a single engine host and 2 hypervisor nodes, the storage is shared over the 2 hosts with glusterfs.

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 1 OggCamp

Although it’s been over a week since I returned from both these events I thought I better put a little something up about them and the experiences …

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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2013 - A good year

I thought I’d finish off the year with a bit of reflection, overall it’s been a pretty good year in both camps of my life - the geek/tech and the family side.

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 1 OggCamp

Although it’s been over a week since I returned from both these events I thought I better put a little something up about them and the experiences …

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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OggCamp and LinuxCon Europe: Part 2 LinuxCon Europe 2013

Whoa I’m getting a bit slow here

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Light control with MQTT on Arduino

It’s been a while since I stayed up most of the night writing code, mainly down to having a young daughter but also down to the fact I haven’t found anything that needed a late night hack session to produce a result.

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Light control with MQTT on Arduino

It’s been a while since I stayed up most of the night writing code, mainly down to having a young daughter but also down to the fact I haven’t found anything that needed a late night hack session to produce a result.

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New projects: Pi's and Arduinos

Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

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Light control with MQTT on Arduino

It’s been a while since I stayed up most of the night writing code, mainly down to having a young daughter but also down to the fact I haven’t found anything that needed a late night hack session to produce a result.

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New projects: Pi's and Arduinos

Recently I’ve been working on several new projects, all of which use either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino.

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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

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Bletchley Park, Little People, Job Change and broken bones.

So, it’s been a while since I wrote anything on here, mainly because I couldn’t find the time to do so.

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Bletchley Park, Little People, Job Change and broken bones.

So, it’s been a while since I wrote anything on here, mainly because I couldn’t find the time to do so.

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Bletchley Park, Little People, Job Change and broken bones.

So, it’s been a while since I wrote anything on here, mainly because I couldn’t find the time to do so.

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Bletchley Park, Little People, Job Change and broken bones.

So, it’s been a while since I wrote anything on here, mainly because I couldn’t find the time to do so.

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Bletchley Park, Little People, Job Change and broken bones.

So, it’s been a while since I wrote anything on here, mainly because I couldn’t find the time to do so.

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New hosting for my blog

After one of my LUG colleagues mentioning about the BigV service from Bytemark I just had to try it.

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New hosting for my blog

After one of my LUG colleagues mentioning about the BigV service from Bytemark I just had to try it.

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Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

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Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

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Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

Blog

Post Virtualisation Talk

Well I finally got there, after a bout of illness causing me to postpone the talk, I finally delivered it last night.

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

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Why I'm uninstalling Ubuntu

I wouldn’t normally write about this kind of move, but I’m in a position where I feel I have to.

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Post Raspberry Jamboree Event

Let me start by saying, Saturday was a fantastic day out - even if I was there as crew not an attendee.

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Post Raspberry Jamboree Event

Let me start by saying, Saturday was a fantastic day out - even if I was there as crew not an attendee.

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Raspberry Jamboree Event

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Post Raspberry Jamboree Event

Let me start by saying, Saturday was a fantastic day out - even if I was there as crew not an attendee.

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Post Raspberry Jamboree Event

Let me start by saying, Saturday was a fantastic day out - even if I was there as crew not an attendee.

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Raspberry Jamboree Event

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Linux Outlaws Live in Liverpool

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Linux Outlaws Live in Liverpool

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Linux Outlaws Live in Liverpool

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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

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GlusterFS Quickstart Howto on Fedora

GlusterHere’s a (very) quick howto showing how to get GlusterFS up and running on Fedora.

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rsync with spaces in filenames fun

While I was trying to copy a load of files from one server to another I found a problem I’ve seen time and time again, rsync with filenames that have spaces in them.

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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Virtualisation talk

So this coming Monday will be the 2 year anniversary of the Rossendale Linux User Group, not too shabby really.

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My contribution to the consultation team/my MP regarding government "adult" filtering

Here’s my two pence worth in the argument against government driven “adult” filtering on the internet I’ve sent a copy to the consultation team via…

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My contribution to the consultation team/my MP regarding government "adult" filtering

Here’s my two pence worth in the argument against government driven “adult” filtering on the internet I’ve sent a copy to the consultation team via…

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My contribution to the consultation team/my MP regarding government "adult" filtering

Here’s my two pence worth in the argument against government driven “adult” filtering on the internet I’ve sent a copy to the consultation team via…

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My contribution to the consultation team/my MP regarding government "adult" filtering

Here’s my two pence worth in the argument against government driven “adult” filtering on the internet I’ve sent a copy to the consultation team via…

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

Blog

Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

Blog

Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Hourly Backup Script for Email

So I was working on a script a while ago to backup all my email on my Linux box.

Blog

Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?

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Whats on my Podcatcher?

What are my current favourite podcasts?