Posted in Geekery, Hacking, OpenAustralia on Sep 18th, 2011
It’s been too long since I’ve written a post here but I blame it on writing posts for everyone else! I wrote a little post about creating a PlanningAlerts scraper for the Northern Territory for my mum. We ran an OpenAustralia hackfest last weekend and I wrote a blog post that was cross posted on [...]
About seven years ago I bet on the wrong horse. I chose phpWebSite as the CMS to run a site for a community group I’m a part of. Why the wrong horse? Well seven years ago WordPress wasn’t in the game but I do remember evaluating Drupal and whilst it has a vibrant, active community [...]
Posted in Geekery on Mar 4th, 2011
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a long time and hearing in Jonathan Holmes’ recent article on The Drum that he doesn’t have a complex password and reuses that password over and over again tipped me over the edge. I hear this time and time again and it doesn’t need to be [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 17th, 2010
Despite using Gnome for ages, I’ve never bothered to work out how to type special characters, like ™ or ©. I’ve normally just opened the Character Map application and copied from there – obviously this is a bit of a round about process. I finally decided to look it up and it’s as simple as: [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 5th, 2010
LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. The following few commands are all you need to encrypt your next external hard disk or USB key on a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu. Installation Install the required software and load the module into the running kernel without restarting: 12sudo aptitude install cryptsetup sudo modprobe dm_crypt [...]
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