Intro I wired my house, circa 2014, for CCTV. At the time, I didn’t have as much confidence as I
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Author: Phil Lavin
I’m an Engineer, working for Vonage (an Ericsson company). I write about stuff that interests me - primarily Networks, Software Engineering, VoIP and Electronics. It exists in the hope that someone may learn from my thoughts and ramblings.
I'm on GitHub! I'm also currently fairly active on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Repairing another Air Conditioner Unit
Intro I did a post some time back about repairing a portable air conditioner unit. They’re not very complex bits
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boto3 / Ansible: SSL validation failed [Errno 2] No such file or directory
This is a really peculiar error. It seems to be caused in the past few months by some sort of
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Carpentry Designs: Chest Freezer Cabinet
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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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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