Programmatically storing your Database for Source Control
Databases are often a critical part of most applications today. But how do you go about storing them for Source Control purposes? There are a number of approaches – the […]
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Computing Trivia: Molly-guards
Did you know that the protective plastic or glass shield over an important button is colloquially called a Molly-guard? You can also get a script for Unix PC’s called molly-guard […]
Securely erasing a hard drive
Recently a relative of mine asked if I could get rid of a couple of old desktop computers and a laptop. The relative had removed all their important files from […]
Compiling FFmpeg for Raspberry Pi / Raspbian Jessie
There’s plenty of guides around, but none that worked flawlessly for me. Here’s my recipe for building and compiling FFmpeg for the Raspbian Jessie environment for Raspberry Pi. If you’re […]
Setting up MiniDLNA on a Raspberry Pi
If you’re familiar with DLNA, which is a media streaming protocol that lots of devices support (PC, games consoles, smart tv’s and tablets and cellphones), you can probably guess what […]
Code Scraps: Get a list of all file content in a directory in Linux
This is a quick code scrap – I needed a list of all the files within a directory path on a Linux server today. I need to do this infrequently […]
Code Scraps: Allow root to login via SSH
Most modern Linux systems will prevent the root user from logging in remotely via SSH. This is a very good security practice and you should avoid altering this as it […]