What are the minimum requirement for Nagios?
I am just installing Nagios on a Digital Ocean Droplet and wanted to know what specification server to purchase. According to the Nagios website the minimum requirements for Nagios are: Monitored Nodes Hard Drive Space CPU Cores RAM 50 – 250 40 GB 1 – 2 1 – 4 GB 100 – 500 80 GB … Read more
Headington Hillbillies
I just visited the Headington Festival and saw the Headington Hillbillies playing. They were really good fun and played so great songs. There was also a really cool classically jazz pianist with a portable piano. The Headington festival was great fun and I’ll definitely be going next year.
Great WordPress Word Count Tool
I just discovered a nice little word count plugin which adds your the total word count for your WordPress site. I was really surprise to discover that I have written 23,700 Words over 3 years.
Aberdovey Seafront Accomodation
I’ve just launched a new website for our flat rental in Aberdovey called Aberdovey Sea Front Accommodation. We started to rent the flat last year and it has been going really well.
What is a licensed pallet?
I’ve just been trying to buy a few hundred pallets and confusingly there seems to be licensed pallets and unlicensed pallets. A licensed (or stamped) pallet is a pallet that has been made to a particular specification and is guaranteed to carry 1 ton. All licensed pallets are made in the same way, using the … Read more
Read Only File System After Upgrade from Ubuntu 14.10 to Ubuntu 15.04
I just upgrade a server from Ubuntu from 14.10 to Ubuntu 15.04. The server started okay and I was able to ssh in. However, the login prompt said that is was a “Read only file system”. This means that I wasn’t able to run any commands to fix the issue. After a bit of searching, … Read more
Awesome Online Chess
Just discovered the brilliant online chess tool here: http://en.lichess.org/
How accurate are the baby scales used by midwives?
We have just had a new baby and it’s being weighed quite regularly to check that it is growing properly. I’m an engineer and was wondering how accurate the scales that the midwives were using. We are based in Oxford and the scales that the midwives were using is the Seca 834 baby scale which … Read more
How to increase the max image upload size in WordPress
There are two variables which restrict the maximum media upload size to wordpress. There are PHP variables. Assuming that you are using Ubuntu and Apache then you should create a .ini file in the conf.d directory. Don’t edit the default php.ini file because this is sometimes updated by the package maintainer and there is a … Read more