Goodbye Mum
Well I guess we all have to go through this at some point in our lives, and the later the better I’d say. Sadly this can’t hold out forever and on the 27th August, after a very long illness, my mother sailed away in her lifeboat to the stars. Yesterday we said Goodbye to her […]
Did you miss me?
Probably not, but I was missing for while. This site, all my sites, were down. I have closed down the incredibly thirsty Enterprise Servers and spent some cash on duplicating the hardware that drives the weather station. The big problem was justification of the running costs. It was running into pounds per day. So it […]
Server cloning
Todays success was to figure out how to clone the WP database from the live server to the backup server. Two parts required. First copy the document folder tree over, which is easily down through SAMBA, although I do have to go and change file ownership afterwards. Second is dump the SQL database out the […]
Transwarp drive does exist.
All this website stuff has led to some very late nights of late. The plan tonight was to relax and have an early night . Note to self. Don’t make a plan. Due to reasons that would be improper to post here I have had to rush the in-laws to the A&E department at the […]
We have lift off
Wow! I would never have believe that this website building, hosting, server running, would take off like it has. Not this site. Who is going to read this? Maybe a few. No, I refer to my weather page, over at www.westcountryweather.co.uk. Linked from the Facebook page of the same name and complimenting it. I had […]
White goods
We came within a smidge of a fire this evening. The toaster was put on and left unsupervised. Its an electronically controlled toaster and it malfunctioned, to the point that the toast all but ignited. Fortunately it was spotted in time, switched off and thrown outside. The kitchen was smoked out and there was a […]
Didn’t think this through really.
Last night I published the new weather page to my Facebook group. I had fitted a visitor counter to the site and this evening it had gathered about 30 hits. Excellent!! Exceeeptttt……. Ah! The plan was to take the server down during the summer due to the noise, heat and power consumption, and to let […]
And then there were three….
I’ve got to the bottom of one thing. These “free” domain names are anything but. Free now, better part of 30 quid a piece when they need renewing next year. This domain is cool and will stay. The darmain.uk domain, we’ll see. If I have valid use then I will keep it. However, this little […]
And then there were two…
The next step, having managed to acquire two domain names was to see if it were possible to have two separate websites. After some mucking about on the server console with “virtual servers” I discover that it is possible. So this is darmain.co.uk, whereas darmain.uk goes somewhere entirely different. yet both are served from Dwarflord. […]
You have mail, or not it would seem.
I am progressing with the development of this site. There are lots of ideas afoot and its great that I can actually go downstairs and see the machine that drives the show. So my latest update is a contact form to allow you to send me a message. For obvious reasons I don’t want to […]