German Potato Salad
Thought I’d give one of these a go, as I love the one from the joint in Soi 11. Using the recipe I found here. Ingredients • 12 red potatoes, each cut into 6 pieces • 1/2 cup chopped bacon ends, visible fat trimmed • 1/4 cup white vinegar 1/4 cup cider vinegar • 1/4 cup white sugar • 1 teaspoon salt • 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper • 1/2 cup light sour cream • 1/4 cup mayonnaise • 1 small red onion, diced • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives Recipe Prep: 20 m…
Ditching the junk food for 30 days
Because I’ve been eating too much of it lately. And boy do I love those double Big Macs! For the record I weighed in at a svelte 118 kg at the start. Would be happy to lose a couple of kg over the coming month. Junk food – food that has low nutritional value, typically produced in the form of packaged snacks needing little or no preparation. So no Dominos, Pizza Hut, Pizza Company, KFC or Maccas for the next 30 days. An experiment of sorts. Not a diet. Using the principle of kaizen I want to be aware of…
Winter arrives in Bangkok
Loving the cooler weather for a change – haven’t sweated for a few days. Enjoy it while it lasts, kids! Credit: Johnny Walker Red Label (ow.ly/XxebJ): via bkk.asia-city.com
Fixing search in wordpress
Hey folks – I noticed it wasn’t working here anymore. Sorry ’bout that! Here’s what I had to do to get it back on-line: Firstly, I reverted back to the default WP search using the Search widget in the sidebar. I was previously using a plug-in and wasn’t sure if it was playing a part in my problems. (I had recently switched hosting providers and made changes to my site and home URLS) After adding the widget, it threw the search box in a strange place on the sidebar. Had to get that sorted. Used the following CSS in my…
Building the Zyxel NAS326
Editors note: Changing the featured pic on this post took the best part of an hour, thanks to the 2MB limit I had to get around. Done it before but this time it was harder. Seems on the web server I’m using (h2o) you specifically need to restart the php7.0-fpm service for the php.ini file to be reloaded If you’ve been keeping up then you’ll know I’ve got a few projects to work on. That’s a good thing. First cab off the rank is the build of my new Zyxel NAS 326 Unboxing and assembly The assembly itself didn’t take…
RIP DVD in Ubuntu
Off course they’re my DVDs! Just need backups.. Info below based on this post. 1. Get ISO info from your DVD
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isoinfo -d -i /dev/sr0 | grep -i -E 'block size|volume size' Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 2264834 |
2. Use dd and modify count param to match vol size displayed in step (1)
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dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/test.iso bs=2048 count=2264834 2264834+0 records in 2264834+0 records out 4638380032 bytes (4.6 GB, 4.3 GiB) copied, 373.405 s, 12.4 MB/s |
3. Calc and compare checksums
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md5sum /home/test.iso d3a2cdd58b8c9ade05786526a4a8eae2 /home/test.iso |
NB: I am unable to get an md5sum directly from the cd-rom, getting error md5sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error Instead I’ll use this:
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sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=number_you_got_from_step_2 | md5sum |
Same checksum twice and I’m GTG
A new NAS – Zyxel NAS326 2-Bay Personal Cloud Storage
This has been a project 5 years in the making. It happens. Was going to build my own NAS many years ago but it never eventuated. Purchased a few Seagate 500GB SATA II Internal HDDs from eBay back in April 2011 for around $100 each and was going to put them in a Thermaltake HDD canister picked up from newegg. (via PriceUSA ; a great service!) USD 70 down the drain 🙁 I think I ended up jettisoning the canister during one of my many moves. Also picked up a CF Adapter Card and a Kingston 8GB CF card on…
WD MyBook Live on Ubuntu
Argh, you always remember your first NAS. I had forgotten the struggle to get this working under Ubuntu, so thought it prudent to put this post together (for my own reference, if nothing more..) Picked this up from Officeworks, at decent price IIRC. It’s essentially a 1TB HDD with Gigabit ethernet, powered by Debian ‘Lenny’. Although it doesn’t state support for Linux, it can be mounted via CIFS and works fine. Having said that, it isn’t the best NAS around. It has a single drive hence no fault tolerance, and the drive is not serviceable. To perform the initial setup,…
How to map a subdomain to a subfolder
This one proved a little trickier than I expected. I’m using wordpress and h2o webserver. YMMV. I am not using WPMU The goal: map test.example.com -> /var/www/html/subdomains/test NB: Your hmtl root dir may vary. I use ubuntu 16.04 1. DNS – Create a CNAME record on your DNS host which is an alias of your domain name 1.1 Point browser to test.example.com. It should re-direct to your current wordpress install 2. Create a virtual host on your web server listening for your subdomain i.e. “test.example.com”. I need to edit /etc/h2o/h2o.conf. If you’re using nginx or Apache look away now!
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"test.example.com:80": listen: port: 80 paths: "/": file.dir: /var/www/html/subdomains/test # serve static files if found file.dirlisting: on redirect: # if not found, internally redirect to /i$ url: /index.php/ internal: YES status: 307 file.custom-handler: # handle PHP scripts using php-cgi (FastCGI mode) extension: .php fastcgi.connect: port: /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock #port: /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sock type: unix file.index: [ 'index.php', 'index.html' ] access-log: /var/log/h2o/access-log error-log: /var/log/h2o/error-log pid-file: /var/run/h2o/pid |
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