PHP7 offers performance improvements that anyone hosting WordPress site will want to enjoy. Moving a B.A.M.P. install from php5 to php7 is simple enough. First install the packages for php7: pkg install…
So I've replaced all the hard drives in my desktop. I have 8x SATA ports and 4x SSD drives. Only 4 of the ports are 6 Gb/s on this board…
Task: Install Arch on a UEFI bootable USB drive or SD card so that it can be used on machines that have we don't have the luxury of changing the…
I'm unhappy with my wireless performance on my laptop so I decided to upgrade. If you decide to do this it is at your own risk, I'm not recommending it, just…
..and from a local web-server to a cloud based virtual machine. So I've been running this site on an old Dell D400 laptop for a while. Arch Linux has been…
So I took some time off work because I had days to use up before the end of March. I went to the Grimes concert in Dublin's Olympia Theatre, it…
So about a week into using FreeBSD I have to say I really like it. I went from "current" which is a stupid name for a future cutting edge version…
I've decided that I want to learn a bit more about the BSD's of today's world. Why? Well you see in my day-to-day I encounter a lot of ESX a…
So as per usual I issued a pacman -Syu, then did a reboot to check everything is as it should be and well it wasn't. Apache was no longer…
Arch Linux is great, change is great, except when you don't know what has changed and why. Case in point, my home server is up 100+ days, I update and…