New Photography Blog
I have recently started a distance learning photography course TG089. This is a distance learning course which costs £200 from the Open University. It is about 10 hours a week for 10 weeks with no set study times which suits me as I do not work regular hours and most in-person short courses would be …
We need to Challenge Tech on Climate Change
After attending some Extinction Rebellion protests on climate change, I have been doing a lot of thinking on the issue. I used to think the whole thing was hopeless and we would just keep burning fossil fuels until they were no longer economically profitable by which point it would be too late. The recent grassroots …
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Vodafone Traffic Throtling/Managment
I came across an interesting problem with my home broadband provided by Vodafone UK the other day. I was using rclone (an excellent piece of software btw) to sync some data to my google drive. Whilst doing this my server monitor, Zabbix, started alarming that my external servers were no longer up. Assuming my broadband …
Exxon and Shell Knew
Exxon did its own research into anthropogenic climate change way back in 1982, at the very birth of the science. Their conclusions? That fossil fuel use and the CO2 greenhouse effect that burning them causes, would lead to man-made climate change. That such climate change would have significant implications for the future of humanity and …
A Slice Of Pi
So this is a new wordpress site running on a raspberry pi. Now plugged into the interweb thingy at my home and registered with search engines. We will see how it does. It may well have to come down in the event that it is such a popular site that I use up all my broadband, however I think …
Raspberry Pi + Ntopng Network Monitor
As most broadband routers don’t actually give you a lot of information about your network traffic I thought I would try and see what I could do with my Raspberry pi. Quite a lot as it turns out.This guide takes some inspiration from Ronem Baram’s solution. The main difference here is that we are using …