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A while ago I managed to get Libvert running on OS X. Sometime last year, things were changed in the Brew.io version of LibVert that caused you to no longer be able to open the information screen on VMs that you are running. The problem seems to be that the […]

Libvirt has finally been fixed to work on OS X, LibVirt Manager is what I use to manage the Virtual machines on Sandraudiga. libvirt is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, QEMU and other virtualization […]

Every so often I try to bin WordPress, and move away from it. I have most recently tried to use DokuWiki to try and get away from WordPress, this can still be seen on labbook.skippy.org.uk, where the some of my notes are now going to live. Things I don’t like […]

A quick change of themes, I was getting less and less happy with bhost, that is not to say its a bad theme, just I wasn’t happy with how it looked, I am now using baskerville. One of the things this new theme allowed me to do was stop using […]

Theresa May seems to have got her way, and the Snoopers Charter has passed into UK law. Squashed Fly hosts among others websites, both the Freedom Press and Freedom  News sites, and as part of that I don’t like clear text services (see Encrypt Everything) and now with the ‘legal […]

As previously mentioned work (CASS Industries Ltd.) needed a new groupware solution after Microsoft pulled the plug on both Small Business Server, and Outlook.com. Our groupware requirements are mostly a shared calender, archived mail, and contact list. we use IMAP for email retrieval from our accounts (externally hosted for historical […]

At CASS Industries we were using Microsoft’s free Hotmail / Outlook connector for our group ware solution, howecver Micro$oft pulled that plug on us when they made changes to Outlook.com. As a solution we picked up a HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 and fitted it with two 1TB hard drives, I […]

Every so often I want to try something new… and with Tas learning python and flask, it looks like time to try and work out how to host flask projects on njoror. Installing Flask on my machine is done by sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv, I also installed mod_wsgi so I could […]

Silly PHP upload limits One of the things that I find really unhelpful is that PHP by default has a silly small upload limit, normally I get around this on a per site basis by editing .htaccess with the following, However I can add some stuff to the end of […]

While Setting up Encryption on each of my domains, I found the process to be a little long winded, and hassle (lots of copy pasta and replacing of text). So I have set up this little generator that I hope will make life a little easier; It includes the generation of the […]

Following on from Setting up Sentora and setting up HTTPS on domains, it is now time to do something about the encryption of emails between clients and the server (I have written about end to end encryption on macs before). I hate playing about Postfix and Dovecot, Paul commented on Twitter that he had managed […]

In my last post about encryption, I managed to set up SSL using Let’s Encrypt on the control panel subdomain. Now while I have talked about this twice before, here and here, and converting WordPress to SSL. This is a new easy solution, that is far far less hacky!!!! (not […]

Spin up a new server on Bytemark’s BigV Install Ubuntu 14.04. I have changed the reverse DNS to njoror.squashedfly.eu Set up SSH Key login visit http://docs.sentora.org/?node=22 and follow the instructions: ` (you will need to double check the subdomain, and ipV4 address) update the DNS for your panel subdomain – […]

If you have ever had to set up, manage, migrate or otherwise look after more than about three WordPress installs you will know it gets more than a little bit dull to look after them manually. Thank you to the people behind wp-cli, as it makes life so so much […]

Following on from Part 1, we now have three of the Norse Goddesses up and running (If you hadn’t guessed what my naming convention is by now…) The site we are going to use for this bit of the up and running is a small site that has a fair […]

For the last long while my personal blog, Professional Site, and Tas’ site have all been run on Vor, a Machine running Zpanel CP. With Zpanel being superseded by Sentora, its time to upgrade vor, and move some things around. I plan on moving This site, the others mentioned above, […]

It looks like MyHeritage now has a “Mac Version” of their software (this should reduce my dad’s number of computers down to one). Historicity they recommended all kinds of horrible things (running virtual machines etc.), but there application could not be run in Wine (or equiv). So this mac version […]

On the server is a site that wants to be both SSL and non SSL, this is not something that is natavily supported by Sentora/ZPanel, so what we did in SSL on Zpanel / Sentora will not work here (sad face) EXPLICITLY DON’T do that! if you have done it […]

Running a hosting business, I frequently chat with folks making the decision on where to host their sites. Other times, people are evaluating existing services and expenditures, wanting to make sure they are getting the best value for their hosting investment. This makes good sense. But almost without fail, people […]

I have now got HTTPS set up on //skippy.org.uk from a server point of view (following these instructions). I now need to tell Word Press that from now on its to play nice. Settings > General Add an S to the HTTP:// and off we go. One of the things […]

With the passing of ZPanel into the dark, and hopefuly being reborn as Sentora, one of the things that would be a nice to have built in to Sentora would be support for letsencrypt.org: Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority: It’s free, automated, and open. Arriving Summer 2015 but […]

What is Photon? this is a question I asked myself when I went looking for the name of the Jetpack app that does Image CDN (Content Delivery Network). Photon according to the WordPress.com documentation: Photon is an image acceleration and modification service for Jetpack-connected WordPress sites. Converted images are cached […]

A while ago I wrote about some offline WordPress editors, recently I managed to get my hands on a copy of Blogo (available via the App Store). My Previouse nice to have list was: Presented the WYSIWYG more like that in the edit screen for posts (the images and captions being sorted […]

Most of the sites I work on are biased on the open source project WordPress, examples include Biscuit Mag, Freedom Press, Freedom News, and My Professional site; some sites like Just Vigilantes, and Does UKIP Hate You? are not. One of the nice things about self hosted wordpress is the backend […]

I was laying in bed a few days ago when I was reading an online article somewhere, and tried to work out how much the United Kingdom Independence Party hated people. Well I general the answer seems to be… quite a lot… So please welcome DoesUKIPHateYou.co.uk.

I have been mistaken for Go Skippy Car insurance quite offten! even though my blog has attracted other peoples negative reviews of Go Skippy Car Insurance, (I have not won any Positive or good reviews of Go Skippy). So to try and limit the number of people who got confused […]

If you have looked at my contact page recently (or at all) you will see that there is both a form, and an email address ([email protected]//skippy.org.uk). This was put there because I hate it when other websites force you to use a form to “email” the person you want to […]