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Converting OS Grid coordinates into Lat/Long using PostGIS
I had a case of needing to convert Ordnance Survey grid coordinates like 548420,247240 that were in a table from NAPTAN into latitude & longitude so that I could display them in a map. Most...
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Getting an Icom IC-PCR1000 working with Linux Mint
I’ve just got a second hand Icom IC-PCR1000 communications receiver and needed to get it working with Linux Mint. What’s unique to this receiver is that its a standalone unit which connects to a...
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Getting IPv6 working on the UK Mobile Network
One problem with mobile data here in the UK is that everything is NATed to death. Most consumer mobile data connections do not support static IP‘s and those that do are expensive. Also, the UK is...
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Connecting an Arduino to a Raspberry PI using I2C
Some time ago I created a weather station using a Raspberry PI and an off the shelf weather station, connecting the two via USB. However, for some time not I’ve been meaning to create a weather station...
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Fixing HTTPS mixed content issues in Chrome
I’ve been beta testing the new Lets Encrypt Certificate Authority so have been adding HTTPS to various services however I hit on a problem where Chrome wasn’t showing the green padlock for a specific...
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Centralizing Certificate Management of LetsEncrypt with a Raspberry PI
Lets Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). At the time of writing it’s currently in Beta and is due to go public in...
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Java 8 running out of file handles on Linux
When I checked one of my websites this morning I discovered it had stopped responding. All it did was sit there then time out with a standard Tomcat error page. So I logged in to check the logs and...
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John Cleese’s “Letter to America”
Originally posted on Things Are Looking Up...: Originally uploaded by Browserd. Dear Citizens of America, In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby...
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Slowly catching up with things…
It’s been a busy 6 months, trying to update all of my websites whilst commuting etc & it’s taking a … More
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Publishing messages to RabbitMQ from PostgreSQL
One part of the rewrite of all of my sites is to make dynamic content more real-time, specifically using Websockets, … More
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