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Extending the life of my iPod for a few more years

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Aug 4, 2015 | Music, My Life, Technology, Tutorials | 0 comments

A few years ago, I wrote an article titled “Why I’m not letting go of my 5th Generation iPod”. Just over five years on, I’m still using it, though it’s time to upgrade it despite it being almost a decade old. Repairing and modifying this...

Using Facebook Messenger on Pidgin – Revisited (API v2) [Updated]

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Jul 11, 2015 | My Life, Technology, Tutorials | 7 comments

Just over 5 years ago, I wrote a post on here showing how to connect to Facebook Chat (now rebranded as Facebook Messenger) on 3rd party Instant Messenger clients through Facebook’s XMPP endpoint. Unfortunately this relied on Facebook’s first API, which...

[SysOps] Easily enabling maintenance pages on your puppet managed Nginx proxy

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Mar 29, 2015 | Technology, Tutorials, Work | 0 comments

An article about setting up an Nginx reverse proxy to display a holding page when the presence of a file is detected.

Quick Tip: Managing OS X Dock’s annoying “feature” on multi screen setups.

by Robert Ian Hawdon | May 12, 2014 | My Life, Technology, Tutorials | 2 comments

Anyone who’s experienced OS X’s annoying habit of moving your dock in front of what you’re trying to do when using multiple screens will probably want to read this tip.

[SysOps] Installing a High Availability Redis service on CentOS 6.X in Windows Azure

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Feb 11, 2014 | Tutorials, Work | 8 comments

My guide to installing a Redis service in Windows Azure with high availability.

[SysOps] Connecting to an Azure Cloud Service instance with FreeRDP

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Dec 5, 2013 | My Life, Tutorials, Work | 0 comments

A guide on how to connect to the virtual machines that host cloud services in Microsoft Windows Azure without using Microsoft’s own Remote Desktop client. Essential if you manage the platform on Linux based systems.

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