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ApacheCon North America 2017

I've spent the past week out in Miami for ApacheCon, and thought I'd share a few things. Getting there We flew direct out of Heathrow on BA. Eight hours in c...

Voice calls need to grow up fast

So I'm out in Florida for ApacheCon, and it's been a really fun and useful trip so far. But it got off to a shaky start. After over 8 hours in a tin box flyi...

Door sensors: Energenie vs Hive

I've had a Hive door sensor for a while now, as regular readers will recall. Recently I wanted an similar device for a side project at work. In that case, th...

VPN

The world has moved on a lot since I last tried to set up a VPN endpoint for my Android phones to use. The Debian instructions on OpenVPN mostly work out of ...

Virgin Media

We got a Virgin Media (business) line in the church office recently, and although it was quite unstable for the first few weeks, it has now settled down nice...

Cycle camera

I've started cycling to work regularly again, and got myself a helmet camera. This is one of those annoying areas where there are cheap items made in the far...

AquaMail

I've been a long-time user of K-9 mail on Android, but the combination of the dreaded doze ("syncing disabled") bug and various bits of clunky UI persuaded m...

URC e-mail fail

I don't know exactly who my church has outsourced @urc.org.uk e-mail to, but whoever it is clearly hasn't read RFC822 ("SMTP systems are expected to make eve...

Proxy DHCP

Somebody should have thought of this, and it turns out that somebody did. A couple of years ago, I wrote about setting up a network boot server on my home LA...