Web browsers randomly stop talking to the Internet on MacOS…
This is a weird and utterly frustrating problem. It’s an issue that I have seen on two totally different iMacs which I’ve owned with completely different versions of MacOS (Catalina and Big Sur). As mentioned, I have now seen it crop up twice now – the first time was on my old 2015 27″ iMac. […]
Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 5 – There maybe trouble ahead …
So we’ve hit part 5 of this series and we’re now at the point where I’d like to cover some of the little challenges that you may hit along the way after the build and maintaining it after Operating System upgrades. If you are just joining us – please feel to catch up via the […]
Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 4 – ROM COMS and happily ever afters …
So the in the previous three parts I took trip down memory lane of my past love affairs with retro gaming from the late 1980’s and through the 1990’s, chartered my progress of building a modern day arcade machine based around Raspberry Pi and then went through the same project in part 3 with my […]
Apple 2020 27″ 5K Retina – an honest review ….
I guess if I was to sum up the 2020 27″ iMac I would say; “Everything stays the same, but everything changes”. Cryptic I know, but I shall explain. The device is visually identical to every iMac since the 2015 model. I know this as I purchased the 2020 version to replace my ageing 2015 […]
Zesty Garlic Butter Prawns
I have a thing for Prawns. I know that they are not for everyone – but, when cooked well and served with the right accompaniment (usually garlic – lots of it) they are truly out of this world! Back before COVID-19, when I worked from the office near where I live – I used to […]
Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 3 – Enter my son’s build of the console version …
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I have had a trip down memory lane in terms of the games of yesteryear that still mean something to me today and covered off a rather natty product from Pimoroni called the piCADE which is an arcade kit with the Raspberry Pi at it’s computing heart. […]
Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 2 – All the fun of the piCADE …
So in part one of this series I set the scene in regard to my love of computers from yesteryear and how what is regarded as “Retro Gaming“. Computer games are something that my son and I have in common (albeit I prefer the games from the past in comparison to the games that we […]
Raspberry Pi and Retro Arcade Adventures – Part 1 – Setting the scene …
I have loved computers since I was very young – if I recall correctly I got my first real computer when I was about seven or eight years old. It was a Commodore Plus 4 and I loved it. My dad worked additional hours to get it for me (he was a master carpenter, so […]
Perfect Poached Eggs …
So, many years ago I learned how to make the perfect poached eggs to impress my girlfriend at the time. She was someone who was very important to me and I wanted her to wake up each morning where I would bring these to her (as a poached egg was one of favourite things). However, […]
MacOs Catalina: There was an error in internet accounts preferences
Just a quick little post which I hope might help some folks out there. Over the last few days I had the need to totally re-blow my workhorse iMac. I have had various versions of MacOs on my bad boy since 2015 and it was getting to the point where logging in was taking about […]
Low volume on videos on YouTube via a Mac….
So here’s a thing … I am a mad Foo Fighters fan. It’s not even funny, I like to think of myself as Taylor Hawkins’s slightly fatter, non drum playing brother (if he let himself go a little – Taylor if you read this, I can use a Keyboard like you hit those skins buddy […]
Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 2
Welcome back to the second part of my three part series on using Splunk Community Edition to track for unusual activity on your Apache based WordPress site. Or, as I am now beginning to call it – me versus China! (Again, nothing against China – but – man, you trap one bot and another just […]
Tracking unusual traffic on your WordPress website using Splunk Community Edition – Part 1
Like a good tenant, I tend to keep an eye on the resources that my website uses on the hosting platform that I use. I have hosted with SiteGround since late last year on their basic “Startup” package and I have found them to be great value for money for the feature set that you […]
Selecting O365 in the Digital Age – Part 2 (So we wanna a thingy with a dowaadi-diddy…)
Well, so it seems that finishing this series could take years (literally) …. hmmmm! So, in the last part of this series I had a little bit of a ramble introducing the situation that an organisation that I work for had when pondering the various options around messaging and collaboration tools, and how that decision was […]
Apple iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) and Samsung C34J791 Quad HD 34″ Monitor…
This is a little something that I thought that I would put something out there on – as quite frankly, As I was astonished that getting a monitor to work inexplicably difficult (read on and you will understand that I was only being a mild idiot during the process!). So, a few years ago (I […]
My MacBook Air 2018 (honest) review…
So, just to be upfront and people don’t accuse me of being a total Apple “Fan Boy” – I’m not; over my years working in IT I have learned to become technology agnostic and appreciate all our industry has to offer (for the most part). In my (considerably) younger days I had worked with Banyan […]
Quick Tip – tracing insecure items on SSL pages using Firefox
So, I have been doing quite a bit of web development recently (as you can see from the new site) and have learned some new things, dusted off some old things and managed to (at times) break things in the most spectacular way. However something that I thought might be useful to share is a […]
Selecting O365 in the Digital Age – Part 1 (Setting the Scene – and what is this Digital Thingy??)…
Part 2 of this article is (finally) available here Wow, I’ve been writing this post for a year! I really need to make sure that when I make comments like ‘this looks like it could be serious’ I then don’t follow through with some content! Anyhow, I’ve been thinking about how this article could land […]
In from the cold, and looking to the future – Part 2
So, two posts done – I might actually be serious about this! For those of you just re-joining us, I covered the various why’s about my prolonged absence and reasons why I have chosen now to return to blogging in part 1 of this series. It was an emotional affair which was probably as much […]
In from the cold, and looking to the future – Part 1
Wow!!, has it really been almost four years since I last sat down and wrote anything for telnetport25.com? What have I been doing? Why return now? What are you going to be writing about? – these are the questions that I hear no one ask! What have I been doing? Probably easier to really ask […]