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  • Blogs all up now (almost) – again

    So here I am doing my second blog migration in only two months. This time I’m shifting everything onto DreamHost from GoDaddy. I’ll explain the reasons behind that choice in my next post. For now, although there has been a bit of a learning curve because of the differences in site implementation, most of the…

  • Blogs all up now

    After getting the SSL certificates installed for both sites, final customisations have been completed and layouts set. Each blog now has a distinct unique colour scheme and all have the same layout with the placement of widgets in the sidebars and footers. When a post is made on a subblog, a plugin installed in converser.nz…

  • The fun and joy of self hosting blogs…

    This blog, and all the others I have started on WordPress, have now moved to a hosting platform, a Godaddy economy Linux package with 100 GB of disk space. It has various resource limitations, but it will fit the bill, especially with an introductory package price of $20.50 for the first year. The domain cost…

  • Hello nztechonverse.converser.nz

    Welcome to a new month and and the new nztechonverse.converser.nz, which is the self-hosted replacement for nztechonverse.wordpress.com. It is part of the newly established converser.nz group of blogs, which are in the process of being migrated to the new web site converser.nz. Setting up this site has been a time consuming process over several days…

  • PineTab, PinePhone, PineBook

    Pine is a platform of multiple low cost devices, starting with a range of single board computers (things the size and functional level of a Raspberry Pi and in a similar sub-$100 price bracket), which has extended into a laptop, phone and tablet in the last couple of years. The distinguishing factor in the case…

  • Rsync Backup System [7]: Current System

    So it has proved desirable to return to making backups from a remote server connected over a network. This is currently a separate computer in our setup of computers, but we plan to integrate it into one of the existing computers (the one that is used mainly to play media) since we have determined the…

  • Can The Covid Card Really Work?

    In these Covid-19 pandemic days in NZ and worldwide, the powers that be have had to come up with effective ways to be able to trace infected people’s personal contacts lest they also turn out to be infected with the virus. It is entirely natural that some sort of technological solution should be sought, and…

  • How To Get A Very Cheap “Landline” Phone Over The Internet

    These days a lot of people are less inclined to have a traditional “landline” phone as Spark will still charge around $30-40 a month to keep providing the service which may be used relatively infrequently. As Chorus are planning to eventually turn off their old copper network in favour of fibre, everyone will sooner or…

  • Bye Bye Blogger

    This blog is now closing and moving to WordPress. This is due to Google’s arrogance in forcing everyone on Blogger to move to a bug ridden new user interface that they should have spent more time testing and fixing before they made it mandatory. Google has also been dictatorial in forcibly removing email notifications on…

  • General computing update – week 34, 2020.

     Since writing early July about about the need to replace the disks in mainpc I have finally progressed towards this stage by purchasing the first of two disks. As noted in the earlier post, this was prompted by an I/O failure of one of the disks that resulted in it dropping out of the RAID…