Introducing the “The Grippy Tube” our second product a variant derived from “The Storage Tube”. It has an improved shell featuring deep curved grooves that improve hand held grip and aesthetics.
The design also improves the tubes strength and adds further weight.
Continue readingAnnouncing Oddities & Trinkets our online store is now open for business; presently stocking just one item (with many variations however), with more items planned soon the store will sell items designed and created by Oddineers Ltd.
Enough small talk; our first item a custom designed storage tube that is discreet, strong whilst remaining light weight, features a screw top lid to seal in the contents and is offered with a variety of customisation options:
Continue readingFor a while now I’ve had a strange issue where files such as images when dragged from the Nautilus file manager to the browser. The event doesn’t appear to handle the file correctly. This issue seemingly impacts every instance of file upload that support drag and drop that I’ve encountered.
Continue readingNote this article is not intended to be a comprehensive guide but a collection of notes on commands used to aid in migrating ESXi systems to Proxmox.
Continue readingIntroducing WeDroid a Python based weather assistant. Originally a weather reporting script that returned the current weather status in a short message form. It was written right after the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s release (9 years ago) and was heavily influenced by the iDroid weather reports that Venom Snake would receive in-game. These reports would indicate drastic changes like sandstorms, rain, or the weather clearing.
WeDroid provides a method to generate messages in a similar style for real-world weather events based on your location (if desired).
It features additional enhancements for Termux and Tasker on Android devices.
Continue readingA post to immortalise a furry friend; a stray that I had adopted back in February diagnosed with a terminal illness was given a few more months to enjoy plenty of food and treats along with help from Greasby Vets4Pets (CH49 3AT) he had managed to gain a little weight. Full of character, extremely chirpy, always curious and very friendly.
Continue readingPreviously covered in Resurrecting the Past: Revisiting MuSense for Window Mobile. MuSense is a gesture-based media controller designed for Windows Mobile 6.1+ devices.
Continue readingIntended for use under Linux; this bash script lets you change how your Yubikey is used to authenticate on your device. It can be use used as the primary authentication method or changed to a 2nd factor authentication step for increased security.
Continue readingThis article demonstrates how to use Termux in combination with Tasker and Rish to manage application states; this allows users to enable or disable built-in applications directly from the device (when configured).
Continue readingThis post covers several Bash scripts that can be used to convert Putty .ppk files to a Linux compatible OpenSSH format.
There are 3 OpenSSH/PPK focused helper scripts within the repository:
convert_ppk.sh: convert_putty_session.sh: putty-session.reg registry key exports to Remmina compatible configurations.sync_openssh_remmina.sh: ~/.ssh/config) and vice-versa.