Author Archives: Brian

Node-RED, npm, sudo and permissions

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Brian

I ran into a problem on my Pi yesterday; I could not update any npm installed packages.  If I did try, it simply failed, quietly.  Some searching led me to believe that it was because I had installed npm using … Continue reading →

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A New Discovery

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Brian

I actually love it when I come across something new, even if I should have found it ages ago. WinSCP. How I have never come across it beats me, but if you regularly edit files on different systems, this is … Continue reading →

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Trouble with Hosting at SmartHost

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Brian

If you happened to notice a number of posts simply disappearing, it was because my hosting provider SmartHosting had some sort of failure last week which meant they lost a number of days work.  I noticed it on Sunday and … Continue reading →

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Node-RED and XML to JSON

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Brian

I’m trying to catch up with a whole load of stuff I did before I started this blog; as much as anything, so I can remember what I did for when I need to do it again! Following on from … Continue reading →

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Reducing Spam on WordPress and Blacklists

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Brian

It is a shame that there are folk in the world that have nothing better to do that try and irritate others. Sadly that is the way it is.  Inevitably, having only set the blog up a week ago and … Continue reading →

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USB to VGA adapter

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Brian

A really quick blog on an item I got from Amazon this week I had a couple of old 21″ monitors kicking around that I wanted to use on a dual stand, but the monitors only have a VGA input.  … Continue reading →

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Bash on Windows

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Brian

Bash on Windows is a fantastic tool. If you have not heard about it I suggest a bit of Googling but in short, it is a fully fledged (well almost) Ubuntu system running right on Windows.  I don’t intend to … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Processes using Monit

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Brian

Monit and it’s big (paid for) brother M/Monit are great tools for monitoring processes on your Raspberry Pi (or any Linux based system).  The first thing to note though is that Monit cannot be used to monitor processes started using … Continue reading →

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WordPress Plugins and Code Snippets

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Brian

I have used WordPress on and off for a number of years and I think I can say it does the job. However, it does annoy me sometimes. With this blog, I intend to share quite a lot of code … Continue reading →

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Installing Raspbian onto the PiDrive (HDD)

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Brian

In the previous blog, I explained how I got to this point. Briefly, I have a new B+ RaspberryPi and a WD Labs PiDrive HDD.  The aim is to end up with Jessie Lite booting off the PiDrive. There are … Continue reading →

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