It's been a long time since my last weekend project, over on git hub I have just published the code for my LINICKX Clock.
I have an old Nokia n800 which I wanted to put to some use. If you want a good time service ...
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Linickx.com has been using comments on WordPress for over 5 years now and over that time the quality and quantity of comments has varied. In the last six+ months comments have become mostly spam. To reduce the amount of outages caused by spam, scrapers and other internet-rubbish the comment ...
Using bootstrap on Cisco ISE
ISE 1.1 had horrible web portals which didn't render well on mobile devices at all (which was odd for a BYOD solution), anyway, Cisco have fixed that now in 1.2 with the ability to enable a mobile version... but what if you want something totally custom that ...
Example wordpress_logged_in for root-cookie
Using Google as a FREE origin pull CDN
There are bucket load of posts on how to use google application engine (GAE) as a CDN but many of them direct you to hosting static content on a google server. For me that approach isn't practical, every time I did a WordPress update or plugin upgrade I would ...
OS X: Sync'ing keychains in the iCloud
Keychains hold passwords, certificates and general secret stuff - only do this if you understand the Apple will have access to this.... well assuming they can crack your keychain password (which they probably can).
Synchronising a keychain across macs could be useful, for example, having a dedicated keychain for WiFi credentials ...
linickx opened pull request symkat/SymPullCDN#1
Cisco.com & Wget
Ever since cisco updated their website (you know like, a year ago), I've struggled to find a way to wget software onto a box.
This week, I found a bodge using firefox. Sign into cisco.com and go through the normal process, accepting agreements and begin the download.
Once ...
OS X: anonymous ftp directory on Mountain Lion
Pretty much every google search I tried landed me on a mountain lion server page, given I'm using normal mountain lion on a macbook the results were not much use!
I use FTP to transfer images to various appliances, firewalls, proxies etc so for speed and simplicity I need ...
wireshark xquartz osx (mountain lion) - crash on start
If (like me) you have just installed wireshark and and xquartz at the same time you'll notice that after completing both installations wireshark will crash and not start up properly.
The wireshark forum shows that if you run wireshark from the command line you get this error..
(process:1234 ...