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    • Migrating away from Mediawiki and how to export its data

      Posted on August 19, 2020

      I like Mediawiki, it is a simple tool capable of doing a lot and can be very flexible and easy to customise. However its not always the right solution! I had a situation where we needed to migrate away from using it for a combination of security and usability reasons.... [Read More]
    • Pre-populating Neo4J using Kubernetes Init Containers and neo4j-admin import

      Posted on July 15, 2020

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      Recently there has been an uptake in the use of Neo4j by the Data Scientists. This is a good thing! they are wanting to use the right tool for the job. However we need to run it inside our k8s cluster as a portable readable data source that has been... [Read More]
      Tags:
      • bash
      • databases
      • docker
      • kubernetes
      • neo4j
    • Adding Ambient Sounds to your Discord Server On LInux

      Posted on June 30, 2020

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      I’m a Dungeon Master! I don’t mean that in the S&M sense! As in the game Dungeons & Dragons (https://dnd.wizards.com), where I run a weekly game as well as take part in a couple of campaigns as a player. It’s a lot of fun and something I would definitely recommend... [Read More]
      Tags:
      • dd
      • discord
      • pulseaudio
      • syrinscape
      • tabletopaudio
      • ubuntu
    • Encrypting additional drives with LUKS on Linux

      Posted on June 29, 2020

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      Encryption is king nowadays with everyone having mobile devices. We have a significant number of people on laptops that travel around and also workstations that live in open plan offices. This means we encrypt all of our disks… just in case. 99% of the time is super simple to do... [Read More]
      Tags:
      • encryption
      • luks
      • security
      • sysadmin
      • ubuntu
    • Connecting to Ubuntu 18.04+ using RDP

      Posted on May 20, 2019

      We have a mix of different setups that the Software Engineer and Data Scientists use to get their work done. There are some using just Linux on laptops, Some on MacBooks and some on the various versions of Windows. [Read More]
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