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Installing Ghost 1.x on a Raspberry Pi - A Production Blog

Now we have a development blog let's turn our thoughts to production. A production blog needs to restart automatically at reboot or in the event of a failure and really ought use SSL. Colour me impressed - ghost-cli does both of these things out of the box without any further

Installing Ghost 1.x on a Raspberry Pi - A Test, Development Blog

This summer Ghost underwent major changes when it moved up to version 1.0. One of these changes was a new command line interface which also installed Ghost itself. The font of Ghost installation knowledge on a Raspberry Pi is https://ghostpi.pro who had a post dated August where

Raspberry Pi and USB GPS

Just a couple of notes because this was trickier than expected, especially since all my experiences with Arduinos and GPSs have been fairly straightforward. I bought a cheap USB GPS which turns out to be a Neo-7 - dmesg giving [ 28.770396] usb 1-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=

Nexus 2012 - a tale of woe

My first tablet was a 1st gen Nexus 7. Probably as good as they got at the time. But then Android 5 came along and the Nexus 7 2012 version became unusable - performance plummeted and it was just too frustrating to attempt anything other than power-off. I read recently

SSL Redux

Chuffed and flushed with success I tried the new websites and yes typing http://two.drifters-co.uk into Chrome automatically presents the home page as secure HTTPS. All the sub-domains work too. The article that lead me to SSL informed me that Opera had a built-in VPN. So I tend

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