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Major security flaw in Logitech wireless peripherals

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Dec 18, 2018 | Robert Investigates, Technology, Work | 0 comments

Rejected title: The mouse that got the cheese On my desk, I have a very sophisticated hacking device. Want to see it? Sure. The most sophisticated hacking device. A mouse? Really? No, I’m not talking about some metaphorical “Here are the peripherals I used on a...

[SysOps] MySQL and the mysterious case of the stopped replica

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Aug 5, 2017 | Work | 0 comments

It’s been a while since I’ve written about work, but this is one of those cases where someone might be scratching their heads for days as to what could be causing their issue. TL;DR, check every little thing your replica server does, down to the smallest...

[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.

[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.

[SysOps] Routing a webserver over a VPN tunnel

by Robert Ian Hawdon | Oct 30, 2013 | Technology, Tutorials, Work | 0 comments

Occasionally, there comes a time when someone needs to integrate a remote web server onto a website. This could be for testing purposes, or debugging, or they might just want to have a bit more control over part of a website. The problem comes when this remote machine...

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