Chris Searle

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Monitoring IP changes2020-01-29
Mac OSX VPN DNS2020-01-09
Catalina and USB Serial chips2019-11-22
Securing pi-hole admin with SSL2019-09-22
Internal certificate authority with openssl and caman2019-09-18
Owncloud on docker on Synology NAS behind nginx proxy2019-07-14
Kafka - java to scala - akka streams kafka2019-05-15
Kafka - java to scala - akka streams basics2019-05-08
Kafka - java to scala - scala v2 - config2019-05-03
Kafka - java to scala - scala v1 - basic2019-04-30
Kafka - java to scala - java2019-04-25
Kafka - java to scala - introduction2019-04-25
Using git-crypt2019-02-23
iOS VPN autoconnect except at home2019-01-21
Transcoding with MKV and ffmpeg2018-11-27
Gatsby site migration - follow up2018-11-14
Update this blog's engine from middlemanapp to gatsby2018-10-11
Pocket money with the S'banken API2018-09-26
UFW with Docker2018-09-21
Find process on port for OSX with lsof2018-05-31
Too many open files on OSX/macOS2016-10-01
Docker for mac eating disk space2016-09-11
Migrating to chruby2016-03-09
Connecting to heroku postgres with DataGrip (and other jetbrains apps)2016-02-08
iOS Game Center blank screen/settings hang2016-02-05
Upgrading homebrew postgres2016-01-11
Cisco SB SG200-08 Gigabit Smart Switch2015-10-30
Replacing denyhosts with fail2ban for debian2015-06-16
Switching java version on mac2015-01-29
Wipe a fusion drive2015-01-01
Replace ssmtp with postfix null client2014-10-21
sSMTP and Gmail - authentication suddenly failing2014-09-30
Chrome - prevent custom print dialog on OSX2014-07-27
Adobe - unable to open raw files2014-06-23
Puppet 3.6.1 - deprecation: environments2014-05-26
Postgresql sort 'WHERE id IN' by original id list order2014-05-02
Site specific chrome launcher's on OSX2014-04-02
Setting system path for command line on Mac OSX2014-01-28
Deploy from github to heroku via travis-ci2014-01-20
Puppet service config for ejabberd2013-12-13
Automated App Compat virtual machines for IE testing2013-10-26
Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) authentication for Google and more on iOS72013-08-14
Site converted to use middleman static site generator2013-08-10
Enabling GPU for Premiere Pro CS6 and After Effects2013-05-25
BankID on Mountain Lion2013-04-16
Generating twitter auth tokens for non-web clients2013-02-25
Setting a fixed hostname alias on mac overriding DHCP2013-02-08
Sony Pulse Elite headset not connecting2013-02-02
Google apps removing EAS support - moving to CalDAV/CardDAV2012-12-17
iMessage fall back to SMS2012-10-11
Mountain Lion upgrade2012-08-27
Entropy on debian squeeze2012-04-12
Incorrect time and date on ReadyNAS2012-04-11
script 'nexus' missing LSB tags and overrides2012-04-11
Drush segmentation fault2012-01-31
Finding the current system JAVA_HOME on mac osx 10.5+2012-01-03
Postgres monitoring with munin 1.4 and multiple databases2011-10-11
Splitting MKV files on chapter marks2011-10-02
JavaZone for iPhone/iPad - some stats2011-09-08
Update OpenDS 2.2.0 to OpenDJ 2.4.32011-09-03
Running rvm ruby 1.9.2 with rvm packages on OSX Lion - failing to make due to readline2011-08-16
Git attributes and diffing binary files2011-08-15
Google IMAP giving incorrect password when password is correct in Mac OSX Mail.app2011-08-13
E-mail validation and Blizzard beta profiles - SystemCheck does not like a plus sign in your e-mail address2011-08-10
Store iMovie events on a network drive/NAS2011-05-27
Syncing secondary google apps calendars to iPhone2011-05-13
PDFKit on heroku on rails 3 - downloadable PDFs and avoiding Backlog too deep2011-04-10
bash helper function for rvm gemsets2011-04-02
Mac homebrew and homebrew-alt2011-03-23
A + in an e-mail is valid. Can't we stop using validators that don't follow the standard?2011-03-16
Scroll wheel in debian guest after updating virtualbox from 3.x to 4.x2011-03-08
Prevent iPhoto '11 from asking for your e-mail password2010-11-28
Munin - node with no services2010-11-03
Adding hosts to /etc/hosts on Leopard/Snow Leopard2010-10-31
Tunnelling IPv6 from a mac over IPv4 tunnel through a debian firewall using tunnelbroker.net2010-10-24
Found on MacRumors: Steve Jobs Comments on Apple's Java Discontinuation2010-10-22
Java Apps banned from new mac app store2010-10-21
Java deprecated on Mac OS X?2010-10-21
Nexus repository manager with LDAP users2010-09-29
Importing custom CA certificates to OSX2010-09-29
javaBin/JavaZone video stream - subscribe as video podcast in iTunes2010-09-17
JavaZone iPhone app available2010-08-22
iBooks on iPhone 3g with iOS 4 - no PDFs?2010-06-22
Flexus follow up2010-06-08
Flexus ticket payment - money taken but no ticket :(2010-06-07
Comments2010-05-27
E-mail validators that fail to validate correct addresses2010-05-12
Playstation 3 lost wireless contact to controllers/BD remote after 3.30 update2010-04-26
Installing pdf-writer gem for rails2010-04-17
Ruby on Rails and IE 8 - respond_to and HTTP accept headers2010-03-18
Struts2 i18n where application default locale doesn't match app server locale2010-03-15
A really weird #NextGenTel router issue2010-02-17
iSCSI on the ReadyNAS NV+ and OSX Snow Leopard2010-02-05
Flexus confused2010-02-02
PHP segmentation fault if both curl and postgres modules loaded (debian)2010-01-22
Jabra BT3030 volume with iPhone2010-01-08
Leonardene Art Models2010-01-02
Setting /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in bash PATH for Mac OSX Snow Leopard for all users2009-11-27
iPhone 3G - third party apps won't start after reset - issues and workarounds2009-11-05
Fun with Flexus2009-11-02
Using maven-exec-plugin to store the current git sha in a build2009-09-05
iPhone 3.0 firmware release and tethering for NetCom - official support2009-08-01
iPhone 3.0 firmware release and stereo bluetooth - it does support AVRCP - just not all of it2009-07-09
iPhone 3.0 firmware release and stereo bluetooth - missing AVRCP2009-06-25
iPhone 3.0 firmware release and tethering for NetCom2009-06-18
Geotagging for aperture2009-05-10
Hudson CI testing for grails from git2009-04-18
Time machine on a large external disk as a sparseimage2009-04-01
Ref: Only a Few Days Left to Win a Drobo!2009-03-30
Relinking resources in iMovie 092009-03-28
Glassfish and Too many open files - monitoring with munin2009-03-26
Increasing max number of open files for glassfish user on debian2009-03-25
SSL certificate based login with myopenid.com and safari2009-03-14
Grails pastebin updated2009-03-13
Maintaining/upgrading drupal installations with git2009-03-01
Linux disk activity checking2009-02-26
Drupal track module2009-02-19
Mollom spam blocking2009-01-14
Running xdebug 2.0.4 on OSX Leopard apache/php2009-01-10
OpenDS allow import of encoded passwords2009-01-07
Git commit mail (debian)2009-01-04
Using git for handling drupal contrib CVS2008-12-31
Backport git 1.6 for debian2008-12-30
Print values of latex dimensions2008-12-08
Importing Groovy/GMaven/maven projects to Intellij IDEA2008-11-10
Increase entropy on a 2.6 kernel linux box2008-10-13
Daily cron scripts don't always run - check filenames2008-10-12
Backing up Aperture Vault to a NAS2008-10-01
Booting from grub shell2008-08-13
Installing a CA signed certificate for glassfish2008-08-09
Using a self-generated Certificate Authority for OpenSSL on debian etch2008-08-09
Creating new SSL keys with keytool for glassfish2008-07-30
Grails pastebin 2.0/2.1 released2008-07-29
Grails pastebin 1.0 released2008-07-28
Demo of date problem in grails2008-07-28
Patching denyhosts to allow correct plugin reporting2008-07-21
Unable to import openssl key to java keystore2008-07-11
Migrating Jira and Confluence from Tomcat to Glassfish2008-07-11
Converting existing bind9 and dhcpd to dynamic dns2008-06-08
Using continuum to build maven 2 projects that are in mercurial2008-05-31
Google address book sync to mac address book - aargh - duplicates2008-05-28
Using maven2 scm and release plugins with mercurial/hg2008-05-27
Spring, Aspects, @Configurable and Compile Time Weaving using maven2008-05-22
Java can't send mail due to a certificate error2008-05-22
DSA 1571-1 - New openssl packages fix predictable random number generator2008-05-13
Dragonfly2008-05-07
MySQL stays open source2008-05-07
Compile Time Weaving of spring aspects in Intellij Idea2008-04-22
Exim4 shouldn't give up just because clamav died2008-04-08
Building a debian firewall on a CF card2008-04-05
Follow up to Resize google map to show all points - making space at the top2008-03-13
Resize google map to show all points2008-03-10
Apache2, NameVirtualHosts, SSL and SERVER_PORT2008-02-29
Deploying jars to third party maven repository via WebDAV2008-02-10
Clamav not starting (exim can't find clamav.ctl)2007-12-17
Leopard issues2007-12-02
Testing expansion in exim42007-11-26
Setting outgoing IP address for domain in exim42007-11-26
Setting up custom routes depending on the network location in OSX2007-11-06
Logging in to drupal 5 using perl2007-11-04
Adding self-signed https certificates to java keystore2007-10-25
Illegal type in constant pool2007-09-03
spring-ldap and NoClassDefFoundError com.sun.jndi.ldap.ctl.ResponseControlFactory2007-08-30
Spring AOP and maven dependencies2007-08-28
Generating new SSL certificate for exim42007-07-14
Bluetooth triggered activity for the mac2007-07-14
Geotagging photos on the mac2007-07-12
Nokia n95 - key sequences2007-07-12
Syncing nokia n95 with the mac, address book pairing and 3G over bluetooth2007-07-12
Nokia n95 email configuration (google, mac and personal)2007-07-07
The Mac OSX menu with dual screens2007-05-30
Create a Maildir directory2007-03-15
Mac OSX 10.4.9 iSync and SonyEricsson P990i2007-03-14
fink selfupdate fails due to cc1plus update2007-03-07
Upgrading debian from sarge to etch : sa-exim 2007-02-25
Colour calibration - Macbook Pro -> Epson 2000P2007-02-23
Upgrading apache 2.0 to 2.2 with ldap controlled basic auth2007-02-14
Adding a .mac mail account to a P990i2007-02-09
Problems updating sarge -> etch2007-02-06
Migrating OpenBSD 3.6 firewall to 4.0 on a CF card2007-02-04
Protecting drupal update2007-01-23
Drupal cron script2007-01-21
Switching between java JDK's on debian2007-01-15
Upgrading drupal from 4.7 to 5.02007-01-07
Amanda backup for OSX2006-12-26
Debian sarge to etch test run2006-12-19
LVM2 - Incorrect metadata area header checksum2006-12-08
Wireless Security2006-12-07
Squid proxying and whatsmyip.net and similar services2006-11-17
Printing to HP 1015 via Synology USB Station2006-11-16
HP 1015 from OS X 10.4.82006-11-16
/etc/hosts on Mac OS X2006-11-10
Drupal 5 - third party modules2006-11-10
Adding a google mail account to a P990i2006-11-08
P990i SMS via bluetooth2006-11-04
Regenerating the access tables2006-10-22
Something odd in iTunes7's download artwork algorithm2006-09-13
Migration to drupal2006-08-17
Using self generated SSL (exim4 TLS/courier IMAPS) with Mail.app2006-07-14
courier imap/pop3 with ssl2006-07-14
autofs - nfs mounts suddenly stopped working2006-07-10
Safari shortcuts2006-07-04
Rescuing a dead lvm install2006-04-18
Add Address Book support for SonyEricsson S700i2006-03-27
Bluetooth modem2006-03-27
Mac Mini (intel) with PS2 keyboard/mouse2006-03-27
Upgrade2006-02-26
SSL certificates (apache2)2006-01-30
evms patched kernel2006-01-27
DVD/CD RW under debian (2.6 kernel)2006-01-17
New hardware2006-01-15
Installing apt keys2006-01-04
Resizing boot/root partition2005-12-29
mplayer and rtc2005-12-09
Handling mail for non-system users with Exim42005-12-07
Setting up encrypted partitions using dm-crypt2005-09-17
Copying partition contents with tar2005-09-03
Planet - RSS Aggregator2005-08-29
Monitoring Exim4 mailstats with munin (greylisting)2005-08-23
WLAN using a 3Com Office Connect 11g2005-08-23
Recovering box after powercut2005-08-03
IE Conditional Comments2005-06-30
Re-generate openssl certificate for apache2005-06-30
Fixed RSS feeds2005-06-21
Sarge - munin - spamstats2005-06-14
exim4 - dnslookup - ignore_target_hosts2005-06-07
Gnome default browser - under xfce42005-06-06
LILO to grub the debian way2005-05-23
libapache-mod-jk under sarge2005-05-22
Adding a new disk with LVM and XFS2005-05-22
Subversion with svn+ssh2005-05-20
sendmail -> exim42005-05-19
Converting .3gp videos2005-05-02
Rounded corners in CSS2005-04-20
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic2005-04-08
Migrating package list2005-04-05
Belkin Bluetooth XP SP22005-03-29
Disable IPv6 in a 2.6 kernel2005-03-17
Ad Blocking Hosts File2005-03-15
XDM shutdown buttons2005-03-15
Bluetooth/GPRS2005-03-15
Displaying classpath in ant2005-03-01
New firewall2005-02-12
udev and DVD/CD RW under debian unstable2005-02-12
Myth TV - further hardware ramblings2005-01-16
Myth TV - testing software2005-01-16
New firewall?2005-01-11
Myth TV2005-01-07