Yieldnodes – background checking

Update: Aug 26 2022. Last month I did a successful withdrawal after waiting over 6 months. No issues. Is it still risky? Of course, but it's still better than 1% using a bank for a bit of extra pocket money. Original ------ I'd like to think I'm a big skeptic and I don't take risks...

No MariaDB after VPS Server migration – Oops

Overnight, my lovely hosting company decided that it was time to move me to a new server of their own infrastructure. That's fine, they'd sent me an email a few weeks ago, outlining the move saying nothing would happen. "During the migration, your VPS will be temporarily shut down to avoid any data loss and...

Pi-Hole = no ads…

I decided to test out pi-hole for my raspberry pi, and see if I could stop ads. Well, on basic testing it's working. After testing a few sites, I needed for find an Australian website blocker. I found a short list here: https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt As per the feed here:https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/mb9o95/australian_ad_block_lists/ It worked. I also added the full...

Activating MYSQLI_OPT_INT_AND_FLOAT_NATIVE

Up until recently, I was happily running GLPI on my server, and all was good... until I upgraded the software... Yes, the upgrade worked, but... Up until recently, the application has been running fine, but now, it has the following message: Use of mysqlnd driver is required for exchanges with the MySQL server.L'utilisation du driver...

Restarting the MacOS audio drivers

There's rare occasions when the virtual sound card that I use (Loopback - which is amazing by the way!) has a complete stoppage of sound. I can't play anything. I have no idea why, or what causes it. I try cycling through the system audio sound devices, of my Studio192, the built in speaker, my...

Mac – Right Click – convert to mp3

With the help of from this website, I have been able to create an automator script in MacOS Big Sur (and others) where you can right click on a WAV file, and choose "Convert to MP3" or "Convert to 320k MP3" as per the name of your automation extension. This workflow sets it to a...

StationPlaylist Schedule auditing

I know this is really premature of me to post something like this, but I've been working on this project for several months now, and it is something that we have stated to use in-house, and so hopefully others will want to use it too. I come from many years of using various radio softwares,...

Sound4 – Getting metadata in a stream

There are many different ways of getting data in to a web stream using the Sound4 streamers. In my case, I'm using an x4. It has taken a little while to understand how this method presented works, as the documentation requires a bit more clarity - hence why I'm writing this entry. Sound4 have numerous...

Downloads from archive.org not always working

It's not everyday your web browser hangs up on a download, but I discovered something weird today. I was being a little nostalgic and so was looking up a great old program called Netbus. It's a remote access tool that you can use for nefarious reasons, or you can just have a little bit of...

Exploits are great sometimes – Printer password

For some reason along the way, I must have changed the password on my printer, but as always, when you need to get in to that admin area, you always seem to misplace the password. Well, it turns out that sometimes, it's a good thing to have exploits that work, especially when you don't upgrade...