Upgrading my HP N54L Microserver
July 5, 2021
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Welcome to my Secret Diary of a Geek home page. Here you will find lots of geeky information, so please have a browse around. I am a web and application developer, and published author.
If you are looking for something a bit less technical you might be interested in reading some of my fiction, but only if you are old enough.
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Having worked in IT for several decades I have a few things to say. Here you will find the good, bad and ugly of the tech world. Often technical, sometimes personal, and hopefully interesting.
Please enjoy and contact me if you have any comments.
Don’t do this to your AIO
Using an AIO is the easiest way to get into water cooling, but there is a right way … and a very wrong way.
The ‘Worst Case of 2019’ is great!
I built a PC in the ‘Worst Case of 2019’ … and I liked it so much I did another one.
Exchange Rate feed from RBA
I have made changes to the Exchange Rates function to include the RBA as a FrontAccounting Exchange Rate provider.
Ubuntu 20.04 gksu replacement
After upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04, I could not run GUIs as root and gksu is gone. This is how I fixed that.
Amazon Lightsail with CloudWatch Monitoring
I’m running several Amazon Lightsail instances as WordPress servers, which has been very successful, however I have been unable to monitor them effectively – until …
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Fiction
Just for fun I have been writing fiction.
Please enjoy and contact me if you have any comments.
Where did all the hippies go?
The Man closes the door firmly behind him not wanting us to be disturbed, though the staff know better than to interrupt. He approaches me …
My Life Is Over!
I stare at the horrid thing as it just sits there, on the end of bed, taunting me. Hugging my knees tighter into my chest, I feel my tears running down my legs.
How could I have been so stupid?!
Boys and Girls
“Well. What are you waiting for?” I say scowling at Glenn trying to be encouraging but probably sounding gruffer than I meant to be.
I Said No!
My hands trembling; struggling with the key in the lock; my breath is quick and short; he is right behind me; I feel his hand lift my skirt and grab my arse; his bare skin feels rough against mine.
“No!” I scream.
C##ksucker
Why is that whenever a girl calls a boy out on his bad behavior it must be because the girl is being unreasonable?