How to cook a great Sunday roast dinner with only one oven

November 4, 2018 • ☕️ 4 min read

“Dad help I need to cook a Sunday roast for 10 people and I can’t figure out how this is going to work with just one oven” — my cry echoed down the phone. After the laughter at my being a pauper who…

Boot hangs after grub on Ubuntu 18.04, 17.10 with Nvidia Drivers sometimes, often after booting Windows

May 5, 2018 • ☕️ 1 min read

Running nvidia-390 or -396 on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) and 17.10 on a Windows dual boot machine I would sometimes encounter a blank screen after grub, especially when rebooting from Windows and…

How to remove “on behalf of” when sending via GSuite

May 5, 2018 • ☕️ 1 min read

If you have an aliased domain you use to send mail as part of your Google Apps account and are annoyed by the “on behalf of” that appears when recipients read your messages, this is for you. There’s…

SM961 NVMe Drive Windows Install — no Drivers found

January 29, 2018 • ☕️ 1 min read

This is a niche post, I had a world of hurt trying to reinstall windows on a machine where it had worked previously with my PCIe NVMe drive. Windows install would start but no drivers were ever…

Bad VPN Speeds on Asus RT-AC87U

April 25, 2017 • ☕️ 1 min read

After a lot of experiment on my RT-AC87U and pulling of hair over *dreadful* VPN speeds i’ve come to the conclusion that it just doesn’t have the processing power to handle encryption overhead. I can…

May 2, 2016 • ☕️ 1 min read

Solution to “sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: No trusted certificate found” when installing SBT on a new (Ubuntu) system: I had a perplexing problem on my new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system today…

My favourite git aliases

February 26, 2016 • ☕️ 1 min read

I take these git aliases from project to project with me, here they are in case they’re good for you too! They’re purposefully short, as anyone who works with git regularly on the command line and…

My First generation, battery-powered Nest Protect has a dead battery and even with new ones in it doesn’t work, is it broken?

February 7, 2016 • ☕️ 1 min read

This happened to me. I tried two brand new sets of AAs (x6) and it still just beeped saying it was out of power. Straight to the fix — I had missed part of the user manual that says you should only…

Cracking/Popping sound when playing Prison Architect on Ubuntu 15.04/15.10

November 18, 2015 • ☕️ 1 min read

On a new build of Ubuntu 15.10, whenever playing Prison Architect there was a constant crackling/popping over the top of the game music and effects. The fix was quite simple but took me a while to…

Corrections for the Youtube Analytics “Sample Application”

September 13, 2015 • ☕️ 1 min read

I’ve recently tried out the YT Analytics sample application. I had a few problems and had to trawl the internet to find the solutions, they weren’t overly easy to find so here they are to help you…

Using Nvidia/Nforce (MCP55) on-board ethernet with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

April 5, 2010 • ☕️ 1 min read

Ever since Ubuntu Gutsy i’ve had issues with the wired ethernet (MCP55) on my ABit IN-9 32X Max – there are two problems, i’ve summated them and the way that I work around them below

Configuring KVM Guests (In a bridge fashion) on a network using statically routed IPs

February 20, 2009 • ☕️ 1 min read

I recently co-located a new server to find that I was given one ‘main ip’ on subnet X and all my additional IPs were on subnet Y. This has happened in the past...

Using Steam from inside a university firewall (w/Tor + Sockscap)

February 15, 2009 • ☕️ 1 min read

Our university firewall is shockingly restrictive, this meant that recently I couldn’t even download a game that I bought using Steam (this is my first time using the Steam system)...