Category Archives: Hosting

May
18
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 3: Lion Server

by Philip McGaw

Following  on from Parts one, and two, I now have a mac mini running OS X Lion, and will now be making Lofn into a Fulla replacement. Two small changes need to be made first though to make it less desktop like; and more Server Like (yes before installing Lion Server App). Power The single [...]

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May
17
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 2

by Skippy

Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283) with only 1 Gig of Ram  however I have bought 2 Gigs from Crucial with [...]

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May
08
2012

Task 51 – Start my Own Business

by Philip McGaw

On my Day Zero List is to Start my Own Business; I have been toying with the idea of this for a while; and while I do poke Just Vigilantes for a while I have always been running it via a VM with Bytemark. I have also been trying to install Mac OS X Lion on my [...]

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Apr
12
2012

O2 have blocked my 365

by Philip McGaw

  My Project 365 site seems to have been blocked from being accessed over 3G by O2, I have written about my feelings on O2′s content blocking before, most people I assume have already got pissed off with it and bitten the bullet since and ‘verified’ themselves since content blocking was imposed in March 2011. The restrictions are at the DNS level, meaning [...]

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Apr
04
2012

bmi.js is not my baby

by Philip McGaw

I’m currently using a T-Mobile 3G mobile connection to do most of my web browsing, as well as the area I am living in not having any signal strength; I have been getting more and more miffed at the image compression and bmi.js, ( I have written about this before). Bmi.js, and I guess the image [...]

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Mar
12
2012

Task 44 – Complete a 365 day Photo Challenge

by Skippy

I have started setting up 365.skippy.org.uk as part of my Day Zero challenge list; it wont share an RSS feed with this blog so you may want to add http://365.skippy.org.uk/feed/ to follow it; or follow me on twitter as @SkippyUK. I plan to start this challenge on the first of April; so I have a while to make sure that everything works

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Dec
27
2011

I feel kind of dirty

by Skippy

I have just sent my first DMCA takedown note. My name is Philip McGaw and owner of skippy.org.uk. A website that your company hosts (according to WHOIS information) is infringing on at least one copyright owned by myself. An article was copied onto your servers without permission. The original article, to which we own the exclusive [...]

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Jul
09
2011

The overkill of Databases

by Skippy

One of the things I love about WordPress is that it is an awesome CMS, I use it to run a number of sites including this one, Loupie.co.uk, UKgoth.info and CamCrew.co.uk It can deal with all the sites, and the plugins required by each to make them work as required. However one of the things [...]

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