Posts

[Linux Technology Tips Web websites]

Fixed: phpMyAdmin is throwing a #2002 cannot log in to the mysql server phpmyadmin

This one had me going round the houses a bit until I the wrong permissions confirmed something to me.

[Linux Tech Solutions Technology Web websites]

INSTALLING PHPMYADMIN ADVANCED FEATURES ON UBUNTU

Very concise and useful blog posting on the subject

[Linux Tech Solutions Tips]

FIXED: Ubuntu Not Seeing More Than 2TB of a Disk

WARNING! Backup your data before proceeding! For me this process didn’t destroy the data.

[Photography]

Beautiful London Photos For Sale

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/mikedixson/collection?album_id=2660484114

[Photography]

Photo24London

I recently took part in a 24 hour photo shoot event whereby the participants were directed and could wander around London and throughout the day were text messaged little missions.

[Personal Photography]

Recent Photo Work

I’ve been taking my camera out with me a lot more lately and it’s given me a wealth of opportunities for some amazing photos.

[Gaming]

Why the XBox One Being Sold Without The Kinect Is a Bad Thing

Confession of an Xbox Owner I’ll be up front and admit I don’t own an Xbox One….

[Photography Tech Solutions Technology Tips]

Landscapify – Adjusting Portrait Photos for Landscape Frames

I’ve been making a lot more use of my digital photo frame since I moved into my flat but a fair few of the photos I want to make use of are portrait orientation whilst the majority are landscape.

[Modern Living Tips]

Can I Park On A Single Yellow Line?

I learnt this today, & thought it best to share it with all to help you avoid getting a parking ticket or your car towed as was experienced by my friend today:

[Photography Tech Solutions Tips]

Canon SLR Auto Exposure Bracketing AEB

If you want to use AEB feature on a Canon SLR camera, make sure whilst you are trying to set the bracketing that your on body flash is down/off , otherwise no matter what you do you won’t be able to enable bracketing.

[Music Tips]

Lyrical Challenges – Tips To Write Song Lyrics

A friend asked me to write a piece on setting lyrical challenges for myself so I thought I’d post it here as well.

[Security Technology]

Activating an iPhone or iPad Through a Firewall

In order to activate an IOS device when behind a firewall allow the following traffic

[Security Tech Solutions Technology]

Allowing Apple App Store Access Through a Firewall

If you allow port 80 and 443 access out of your network then accessing the Apple App Store from behind your firewall it’s a doddle.

[Security Technology]

Mac OS X’s Hidden FTP Server

Seeing as there is already the capability to run a built in ftp server on OS X why bother downloading and potentially paying for one?

[Personal]

Using a Tag Cloud to Evaluate Your CV

After seeing this LifeHacker article I popped the text from my CV into http://tagcrowd.

[Personal Tech Solutions]

How to fix Mac bluetooth audio quality

Anyone who’s tried to use a decent pair of bluetooth headphones with a Mac knows that it sucks the big one.

[Linux Tips]

Make Sudo Sessions Last Longer In Linux

A handy little article on Lifehacker.com to Make Sudo Sessions Last Longer In Linux

[Tech Solutions]

Fixed – Jira: An internal server error occurred when requesting resource

Jira Gadget Error At work we use Atlassian’s Jira as our support ticket tracking tool.

[Technology Web Windows]

Windows 8 Browsers in Modern UI aka Metro Mode

Since getting my Nexus 10 I used my laptop less and less.

[Personal Weight Loss]

Losing Weight Again

Losing Weight, It takes effort So after my previous efforts to lose weight after the 14 Stone Wobble eventually fell by the wayside I’ve recently gone back up to 14 stone again and so I’m trying to lose weight.

Posts

Fixed: phpMyAdmin is throwing a #2002 cannot log in to the mysql server phpmyadmin

INSTALLING PHPMYADMIN ADVANCED FEATURES ON UBUNTU

FIXED: Ubuntu Not Seeing More Than 2TB of a Disk

Beautiful London Photos For Sale

Photo24London

Recent Photo Work

Why the XBox One Being Sold Without The Kinect Is a Bad Thing

Landscapify – Adjusting Portrait Photos for Landscape Frames

Can I Park On A Single Yellow Line?

Canon SLR Auto Exposure Bracketing AEB

Lyrical Challenges – Tips To Write Song Lyrics

Activating an iPhone or iPad Through a Firewall

Allowing Apple App Store Access Through a Firewall

Mac OS X’s Hidden FTP Server

Using a Tag Cloud to Evaluate Your CV

How to fix Mac bluetooth audio quality

Make Sudo Sessions Last Longer In Linux

Fixed – Jira: An internal server error occurred when requesting resource

Windows 8 Browsers in Modern UI aka Metro Mode

Losing Weight Again

LATEST POST

Bulk Clearing Scheduled Downtime in Nagios

Three Mes - How Past Me Pays it Forward

SSH to an AWS Instance over SSM

Posting on the go with Hugo

AI Pay My Bills: A Quick and Easy Lifehack for Splitting Receipts

Everyday AI in IT

Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

Using MFA for Sudo Only

Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

CATEGORIES