I decided to join the modern era and swapped a FireCuda “Hybrid” drive for a full fat NVMe disk. For … More
Category: Tech stuff
Get Alexa to announce TFL Rail (Elizabeth Line) Status via Voice Monkey
The nice people at TFL publish a free API to get status information. I had a few minutes spare today … More
Windows 10 Update Hanging
Got a Windows 10 machine that just hangs or errors when upgrading? Especially if it is to version 1903 (May … More
RDNSS and IPv6
When the IPv6 RFCs were completed to a point that the working groups were happy the protocol was ready, it … More
Battling Magecart and other injectors
There have been a few high profile incidents of online retailers seeing their customer’s credit card data being siphoned off … More
Blocking Spammers by IP address in Postfix
I’ve had a few unwelcome visitors to my mail server and for the most part, the filters I have in … More
Transfer Windows 10 to a New Hard Disk without additional software
It can be done! Things you will need: Beg, borrow or steal an external Hard Drive that you can store … More
Trackbacks and Pings in WordPress
If you are getting lots of random and unexpected entries in your web logs like this one: 37.29.48.76 – – … More
iPhone not appearing in iTunes
* Open Device Manager * Right-click the Apple Mobile Device and choose “Update Driver Software” * Select “Browse my computer … More
Windows 10 "Attempted Switch from DPC" Blue screen caused by Acronis Scanman
I have spent some time diagnosing a sick PC which intermittent BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) and decided against the … More