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Regain webmin access after IP changes

Here is how to regain access to Webmin after your local IP address changes and Webmin locks you out.

Edit /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf and change the “allow” IP address to your new IP address.

To add multiple IP addresses, just put a space in between them.

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Weather Station

OK, so my new toy arrived this week, well at least part of it, my new weather station.

I’ve wanted an internet enabled station for over ten years, and I’d never got round to replacing the weather station my ex broke (by dropping a 43 inch CRT TV on it…

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Sleepers Awake / Watchet Auf / Maurice Mime

I’m posting this because it took me an age to track down.

You may be familiar with Kenny Everett’s character ‘Maurice Mime’ who always had the same music.

It’s actually a piece by Bach called Watchet Auf (Sleepers Awake)

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Flapjack

[yumprint-recipe id=’3’]

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Parkin

[yumprint-recipe id=’2’]

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External drive mounting and suspend

Here’s the problem: The Virtualbox vdi is stored on an external USB harddrive, which is /dev/sdc1 and mounted as /media/gary/Virtualbox. All working fine after a reboot fine and dandy and what you’d expect if you look in fstab.

Put the host Ubuntu system…

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Remounting drives at startup

Ubuntu 13.04 seems to suffer from a bug where drives are not correctly mounted at boot.

To solve this, unmount the drives first and then remount them:

Edit /etc/init.d/rc.local

Change

do_start() { if [ -x /etc/rc.local ]; then [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] &&…

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(via Drink, or rather, the lack of it!)
Moving wordpress needn’t be difficult

As you may have noticed, I’ve changed the URL and removed the /blog part.
Easy enough to change this in WordPress before you move.

However, although your media library will follow you, any images will be broken as they will still contain the /blog/ part.…

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Enough is enough

After 6 years I’ve got rid of my Facebook and Twitter accounts. I no longer have the energy to interact with people who don’t really care about me, nor do I really care about most of them (Hobbit excluded of course). I doubt I’ll be updating my blog much…

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