ADRIAN’S BLOG
Ramblings of an IT geek
The Complete WordPress Website Developer Course
This is just a placeholder for the time being, or maybe even a free advert, but having started playing with WordPress I thought it would be good to learn a little more. I've taken a few Udemy courses, and for the money, they are usually pretty good. I've...
FreeNAS (part 1)
I've made lots of references to FreeNAS in the earlier 'technology' related posts, so thought it might be interesting to pull it all together here and go into a little more detail about my FreeNAS use. I first started using FreeNAS at the end of 2013. I'd been...
Whisky
That's right, there's no 'e', or at least not in the country who invented the stuff! I've always liked the idea of drinking whisky, but only since moving to Scotland have really begun to appreciate it as it really should be. And I think it's fair to say my taste in...
Advent
The Star Wars Lego Advent Calendar - it's become a bit of a Christmas tradition! Even though next year I'll be closer to 50 than 40!! I think this is my 5th or even 6th calendar, and my daughter is now joining in with her own Lego Friends version. I thought I'd share...
AirPods
Earlier this year (January to be precise) I backed a Kickstarter project for, what at the time seemed to be, some rather unique wireless earphones > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revols/revols-premium-quick-custom-fit-wireless-earphones Unfortunately, as...
Almost there…
Sorry it's taken a while to get around to this, and it probably won't be all that detailed for now, but I've been a little busy since the midnight showing of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story last Wednesday/Thursday I went to last week. Staying up until 04:30 am didn't...
Whirlwind
These were all taken using the EOS M and 18-55mm lens (mostly at 18mm) in 2015 on a Scuba Travel Red Sea liveaboard aboard Whirlwind.
Amateur Photographer
You might have guessed from the last two blog (gallery) posts that I'm a budding amateur photographer, or at least I like going out to take pictures and have far more camera gear than anyone not making money from it really needs! I'm also quite fortunate that I...
Forth Bridges
Linlithgow Palace
Some WordPress tweaks
I know, another blog that doesn't continue the eOS saga, but I've got things to a point that I really need to be trying to use it on a daily basis and I just don't have the time, or faith, to attempt that at the moment. Hopefully, I will at some point, but for...
Alexa, write a blog update for me!
Ok, so she can't do that, but after inviting Alexa (aka the Amazon Echo) into my house earlier this week I thought I'd do a quick blog! I have to say, I'm really impressed and so far Alexa has help me with the following: switching on/off my Philips Hue lights...
SSL
Another non-eOS blog, but this has wasted some of my time this week and thought it might be useful (at least to me in 3 months time!) In today's internet world, creating and using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate (cert) should be much easier. Ok, it's...
Rogue One incoming!
Whilst we're on a Star Wars theme, Rogue One is now less than 20 days away. I've managed to get some tickets to see it at 00:05 on Thursday 15th December at the Cineworld IMAX in the Glasgow Science Centre, so will report back after that. Having really enjoyed...
Episode IV – A New App?
I've decided to try and break this down into 2 blogs, and as a small homage to the greatest film ever made I'm calling the first one Episode IV! I thought it would be useful to understand what I use in macOS before diving into the alternatives available in eOS....
Tweaking
Not with Miley Cyrus! One of the good things about a default eOS install is the lightweight feel. It really doesn't come with a lot installed, which is good if you want to add just what you need, but I do feel it's missing a few fundamental things. There...
Take 3
You didn't actually think I was done? I've actually been playing around some more with my eOS MBA and after installing a few more things and trying a few alternatives managed to break it again! It wasn't broken in the same sense that it wouldn't boot, but...
You’ve got mail (and a calendar)
I've kind of left this until the very end as I knew accessing my mail would be pretty straight forward. Webmail would always be an option if not, but I've configured other mail client in other Linux VM's so knew this would be fine. I have 4 e-mail addresses, or...
Enjoy your media on all your devices
Let me start by saying I LOVE PLEX!!! I needed to get that out of the way, as I'm sure others will love their choice of Media Server just as much, but for me, Plex does almost everything I want, and even some stuff I don't! I've been using Plex almost from the start...
VPN phone home
The last piece (I think) of my connectivity puzzle is the remote access back into my network when I'm away from home. This is really handy when stuff doesn't work, and by using a Virtual Private Connection (VPN) also provides an added layer of security when I'm...
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