When I revise for university exams I seem to be in a habit of falling asleep rewatching lecture recordings. Heck, I nearly fall asleep during lectures I attend. I’ve found the only way to stay engaged with the material is … Continue reading
I decided to have a look around for an alternative to WordPress. I must admit I do have a tendency to do this from time to time. Anyway, enter Ghost. No php, just pure js built for the new … Continue reading
Nailed it, I knew I could work out how to get a darned IRC server up and running. So now you can spam my name into the chat and it will alert me like mad that you are trying to … Continue reading
Well, for the most part it seemed to work for a while and I was able to join in on my conversation with myself a few times. IRC might be a good way of having an instant chat that is … Continue reading
Shallot is a great little program for generating your own vanity darknet onion address. I’ve used it for my old http://mcretro35qepy5cy.onion/ address. I figured I’d share how it all works.
So I fired up the old Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit) and … Continue reading
Just a few days ago I managed to get WordPress to play nice with my darknet (Tor) website, meaning McRetro.net is now mirrored 100% to the mcretro35qepy5cy.onion address. Magnificent! That got me thinking though, what other darknets could I get … Continue reading
If you can see this post, it means that I managed to get the website working sufficiently well under WordPress on a Raspberry Pi 2. While I had used FlatPress for a while, I felt like I was missing out … Continue reading
This one has always been a tricky one for me, trying to remember which Raspberry Pi was running which version of Raspbian / Debian. I guess you’ll have some idea of what you are running depending which command works for … Continue reading
Part 14 – Testing the Waters
Time to get some content up on your web server. You can either fire up Samba or use terminal to create a new website, etc, etc.
Use Notepad, TextEdit, Nano or some other basic … Continue reading
Part 13 – Generating a Domain Name
Use the vanity generator (Shallot) to make some private keys.
Advance onward to part 14 or head back to the table of contents on page 1.… Continue reading
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