Chest freezers are ugly beasts. If you don’t have an appropriate garage or other outbuilding then you’re stuck with keeping
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Author: Phil Lavin
How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr
traceroute vs mtr When a packet travels across the Internet, it travels through multiple routers. The traceroute and mtr tools
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WordPress: Changing error_reporting level
If you add error_reporting to the end of the list of the disable_functions setting in your php.ini then Wordpress can no longer change error_reporting settings and, thus, the setting provided in your php.ini will be honoured.
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Carpentry Designs: Drinks Cabinet with Wine Fridge
Intro When looking for a drinks cabinet for wine and spirits, I couldn’t find anything which took my fancy. Some
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MySQL: Generating a new “random” number which isn’t already present in a table
The Problem You have a list of numbers in a table and you want to generate a new number, between
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AWS Aurora Global Clusters Explained: What you wish they told you before you built it
AWS Aurora Global is, on the face of it, a decent product. Aurora is a MySQL fork with a tonne
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Running Amazon DynamoDB Local (Docker) with Gradle
DynamoDB Local is a Java application which you can run locally to test your applications against DynamoDB, without the need
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Running Docker Containers (from AWS ECR) with Systemd
Systemd units can be used to automatically start Docker containers on boot. Systemd, by default, will also monitor for the
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Ansible: Automatically Generate and Verify AWS ACM Certificate
Ansible’s AWS ACM module didn’t, at time of writing, support generating new certificates. ACM certificates can be programatically generated and
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Repairing an Air Conditioner Unit (Slow or no Fan)
Intro to AC Units An air conditioning unit isn’t a hugely complex bit of kit. Its major electrical components are
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