Sometimes, when you’re updating software on your Linux machine, the person maintaining the package will have also updated the default configuration file that ships with the software. This is an issue if you have customised that configuration file on your system – the system doesn’t know whether it should keep…
Here’s how I got a fully featured Sage Math install on my system. I did this because I wanted to run on windows, and still be able to install packages, which isn’t possible with the precompiled binary. Basic process: Enable hardware assisted virtualization. Set up WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)…
I don’t think the documentation for the Real to Int and Int to Real blocks in Unitronics UniLogic is very clear, so here’s my explanation: Real to Int There’s a special case when r2i_Precision_in is 0 (ie. round to the nearest integer): when the magnitude of th fractional part is…
I made this card for my friend, I thought I’d share the pattern in case anyone want to make the same thing. Patterns: this .zip file contains: PDFs, which should be easiest to use, Original SVG files which you can open and edit in Inkscape (which is completely free). (Sorry…
Hello and welcome to my series of posts on setting up a server to run Debian Linux, hosting a WordPress and a Nextcloud installation The idea is to take you through all the steps needed to get up and running, some basic familiarity with computers and Linux is assumed, but…
Now you’re up and running with what should be a stable and secure installation of WordPress and Nextcloud with Collabora. There are plenty more tweaks you can work on yourself: Server Administration Advanced HTTPS – you can check your config with https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/. You have choices about how you want to…
There’s lots of ways you could lose your website – a hard drive can fail, the server could be damaged by a lightning strike, or even stolen in a burglary. To get back up and running you’ll need to fix or replace the hardware, but this post is meant to…
One recommendation that many security experts make is that the WordPress configuration files should be outside the web root. Lets make this change. WordPress Create a new folder called /var/www_config. Put a new folder in here, wordpress Copy the WordPress configuration file across, and set it’s permissions so no-one apart…
The final of the 3 big pieces – this provides document editing capability in Nextcloud. Install Collabora There are a couple of ways to install Collabora, and the recommended way is to use a Docker image. That isn’t ideal for us because the Docker version will use more resources which…
Before enabling public access to Nextcloud, lets take a moment to improve things a little. Apache Config First up, let’s force the use of the HTTPS and make sure we haven’t left any security holes by stripping back the HTTP config file to it’s bare bones. The default Apache configuration…