ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
Queensferry Crossing
You might have seen a previous blog with pictures of the iconic bridges crossing the Forth at Queensferry, but if you haven't we live pretty close by and whilst we don't use the bridges that often, we get to see them from time to time. Over the past 18 months...
Fringe
Is there another city anywhere around the world which transforms so dramatically for a month each year? I don't think I've visited one, or at least not one that changes quite as much as Edinburgh does during August when the Fringe comes to town. It's one benefits of...
Lego(land/ Builders)
This is one of those posts I'd saved as a draft, but not got around to writing! I thought about it again a couple of weeks ago after a visit to Legoland in Windsor, although still didn't get around to it. Today was my daughters 5th Birthday party, and we'd...
ONLYOFFICE
What is ONLYOFFICE I hear you ask? Well, it's a very good question and one I wouldn't have known the answer to until today! I only found out myself today as I decided to upgrade my ownCloud server from 9.1.5 to 10.0.2. ownCloud 10 (or X as some have been...
Concrete Holes
Just before my daughters 2nd birthday, we bought a swing set for the garden from Dunster House. It seemed like excellent value, and other than having to get it delivered to a friendly Dive Centre in Eyemouth (long story, but it was free delivery there and about 1/4...
Blogging
Since starting this blog about a particular subject, and then drifting off onto various other things, it got me thinking about how other people do their blogging? Using Wordpress, my approach tends to be to create a draft post when an idea for a blog springs to mind....
Philately
I don't think I'd go as far as to describe myself as a Philatelist, but I do quite like stamps! From the age of about 6, my Dad used to buy First Day Covers for all the newly issued stamps, which back then seemed to be every 2-3 months, although sometimes more or...
TrueOS again
I had a couple of hours free this afternoon, so decided to waste them having another play with TrueOS on my MacBook Air. I've already blogged about the first attempt here but thought things might have moved on and wanted something to play around with FreeBSD outside...
Cars
I was chatting with my Mum a few months ago about cars, and it got me thinking about all the cars I've had a driving relationship with. I say that, as it doesn't include other people's cars or ones I've hired but ones that I've spent at least...
Sugru®
If you haven't heard of this stuff, check out their website > https://sugru.com I think I saw it advertised on Facebook a few years back, and at the time had a number of frayed cables that this stuff was advertised as fixing. It's a mouldable rubber...
macOS High Sierra (10.13)
It's that time of year when Apple releases a bunch of Public Beta versions of its upcoming software, for macOS, iOS, and tvOS 😀 Not quite sure why, but I like playing with these. They usually have some problems, and over recent years haven't brought...
Plex Tools – PlexPy and PlexEmail
I've mentioned Plex in various other blogs (like here and here), mainly because I LOVE PLEX! It makes streaming media around the house and to devices away from home so simple, with a beautiful user interface that even my 4-year-old daughter can use. They've also...
Virgin Media TiVo V6
I can't remember the last cold call I received during the day where I came from the call happy. I'm registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) although this doesn't seem to stop the endless stream of calls to help me claim PPI, damages from no-fault...
CrashPlan
When I built my main FreeNAS server, the machine it replaced was put into backup duties with a nightly replication created to move some of the files from one (freenas1) to the other (freenas2). freenas1 has 9 x 4TB drives configured in an RAIDZ2 pool...
New Plex Jail
I thought I'd rebuild my Plex Media Server (PMS) jail today, so it's using the latest FreeBSD 10.3 template which would hopefully mean when the next PMS update was released, I'd have no problem updating the jail. While the 9.3 template jails continue to work on...
More SSL fun with LetsEncrypt & Certbot
The SSL certificate for my company domain (apeconsulting.co.uk) was due to expire at the beginning of June and was slightly out of kilter with my other certificates. They are all LetsEncrypt ones and are created using Certbot in a jail on my FreeNAS server, but...
FreeNAS Manual Update
OK, so I wasn't expecting this to be straight forward, but I also didn't expect to fall at the first hurdle! I knew I couldn't use the auto updater built into FreeNAS, as this will take me to the latest stable or nightly train. I was hoping I could...
FreeNAS Upgrade – 9.3.1 to 9.10.1-U4
Firstly, why oh why does FreeNAS version numbering need to so complicated, and why does it need to change every few updates from dot numbering, then date numbering, back to dot and then the addition of uN? Don't think I'll ever understand it, but it's only a...
iMac Bluetooth Woes
So, for the past few months, I've been having Bluetooth connection problems on my 2011 iMac, which given I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse is a bit of a problem. It started with just a few disconnects and reconnects, which while a little annoying,...
Bloggers Block
Not really, but I just Googled 'bloggers block' and was amazed to see it's a real thing! Pages and pages of useful tips for when I do suffer, but my problem at the minute is time and the lack of. I think I have more draft posts saved than I have actual posts, and...
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