Blog Posts
- How to protect against an XMLRPC attack - 07 Dec 2015
Over the last week I started to notice some alerts coming in from a website uptime monitoring service I use called Pingdom. At first it seemed normal, over the last few months the uptime of my site had been around 99.99% which is very good, so a few instances of downtime weren't unexpected. I thought my VPS host DigitalOcean may have been having some issues, or some Ubuntu updates may have caused...
- How to fix Admin login in OS X El Capitan - 04 Oct 2015
After updating to the latest version of OS X - El Capitan, I realised there was a major bug in the OS. I could login, but I could not use my admin credentials to authorise installations, or unlock the padlock to change preferences. I believe that this is a Centrify issue, as it affected myself and a few colleagues at work, but my personal Mac (without Centrify installed) has not had...
- Android Wear is now compatible with iPhones - 31 Aug 2015
It's official! Google have just announced that Android Wear devices will now be compatible with iOS. All you need is an iPhone 5 or newer running at least iOS 8.2. It appears that it won't be lacking any features either, you will be able to use Google Now, see all of your notifications and change the watch face, just like you can on an Android device. As of today, there...
- How to create your own link shortener - 25 Aug 2015
Have you ever wondered how to create your own link shortener, so you don't have to use sites like Bitly? Even if you haven't, I'm going to tell you how to create one anyway! Firstly, you will need your own domain name, and a web server running Apache and MySQL. Open up Terminal and browse to the directory you would like the link shortener to be in. Run the command below...
- How to reset a password in OS X - 23 Aug 2015
Have you ever forgotten the password to your Mac? Has someone changed it and locked you out? Thankfully, there is an easy way to get back in! Follow these steps to get back in: Shutdown the Mac Boot into Recovery Mode by pressing the power button whilst holding 'Command + R' Choose Disk Utility At the top menu, select Utilities > Terminal In terminal type 'resetpassword' and press enter Select...