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The past few months – getting into woodworking

Posted on 1 August 201929 August 2019 by tom

I knew when I re-started the site that I was never going to be able to stick at blogging regularly,

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Cub Scouts, Woodwork
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“How does the internet work”?

Posted on 28 January 201928 January 2019 by tom

I spent the day interviewing a mixture of students who had applied for our industrial placement role, and graduates (or

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Amusing mistakes in CVs I’ve reviewed, #1

Posted on 7 January 20197 January 2019 by tom

As I’ve mentioned before, I end up reviewing a lot of CVs (resumes) as part of my day job. Sometimes

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sshd not running on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on 26 November 201826 November 2018 by tom

After a recent update to a VPS server I have running Ubuntu 16.04, I found that sshd was not starting

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How to write a good CV (resume)

Posted on 22 November 201830 November 2018 by tom

At present, since we have a number of job openings for software engineers and technical leads at work, I’m spending

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Disk space check and email warning if over threshold

Posted on 1 October 20181 May 2020 by tom

This is pretty simple, but it’s one of those things I find myself needing every so often and not being

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Adventures in IPv6, part 4 (Postfix)

Posted on 16 September 201816 September 2018 by tom

Setting up Postfix to use IPv6 was a little tricky. Obviously I needed to configure my DNS servers to have

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Adventures in IPv6, part 3 (bind DNS over IPv6)

Posted on 16 September 201816 September 2018 by tom

Setting up Bind to provide DNS over IPv6 was fairly straightforward. In fact it was on by default: listen-on-v6 {

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Adventures in IPv6, part 2 (bind AAAA records, and nginx)

Posted on 14 September 201816 September 2018 by tom

After discovering that my work PC has a fully working IPv6 internet connection (and therefore giving me the ability to

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Adventures in the future: IPv6

Posted on 13 September 201814 September 2018 by tom

At work today someone asked me what our IP address was (so they could whitelist our access to some server

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