The mushrooms of Normus

The mushrooms of Normus

Knitwit Twit...

Knitwit Twit...

So I'm learning to knit - mostly for brain plasticity and to practice a new craft. I love it - my mates were all laughing - until Tom Daley was outed as a knitter at the Olympics - Oh and I saw a tweet of Patrick Stewart knitting in his

The Mathematics of Altruism

The Mathematics of Altruism

Have you ever wondered why kindness exists? In a natural world of fang and claw, predator and prey, and survival of the fittest - where does kindness come from? Is it something to do with Game Theory? Strength in numbers? Or is there more to it than that? Artificial General

Music of the Spheres

Music of the Spheres

I've been listening a lot to that hum-hiss-whistle that always seems to be there in the background of my experiencing-self. I assume this is the thing called tinnitus. In my day-dreams, I wonder if it is something more than an auditory hallucination. Weirdly, I can sense both quiet sounds and

C-Bus Magics

So we are sucking up the juice again - and checking the rosebed-cam, our side security light is on ALL the time, argh! Why don't they do LED sensor-spots in NZ (sigh)?? I ran the C-Bus Toolkit Version 1.15.2 remotely over the VPN on Lugh - then examined

Polter-ghost!

Ok - so these are the niggles I have with the Ghost blogging platform... April 2018 Don't get me wrong - I love love love Ghost, but they still don't make it easy sometimes... Hostess with the most-est 1. No hosting multi-blog ghost sites documentation that I can find? * I

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...

I have a weird idea - it seems strangely simple, is it true? I don't know... but I find it an interesting mind-tool when thinking about people, and even animals. I saw a documentary on TV once - about an experiment that started years ago - and is still ongoing

I've just seen a Ghost!

I've just seen a Ghost!

Time to resurrect the fantasmagorical Ghost And wow - things have moved on - thank you Ghost-Bunch, lots of work has happened since 2016 when I last looked at Ghost - it was great then, and much goodness has been done on simplifying set-up. I used this as my base:

Lampooned

April showers... and the lambs are coming... lambkins looking good... these two are scoping out the escape route! butter wouldn't melt... a wee Boreray ram

Dark Matters...

Dark Matters...

If the dark matter shells around baryonic galaxies contain dark-matter people, are we just the ghostly whisps of energy in their galactic wood-burners? If one day we were to tickle them with dark-matter fission, would a tug on a nearby cosmic string snuff out our sun?

Getting to grips with a Ghost

Getting to grips with a Ghost

So how big should the images be? My old post images look weird. The welcome image that comes with Ghost is 1400x933... maybe I will try that - a 3:2 ratio...

Upgrading the Ghost - Whoopi

Upgrading the Ghost - Whoopi

Ok - well my blog was telling me that a new version of Ghost was available... ummm, is it a gasp security update??? Who knows - the Ghost announcement gives narry a hint :( So my paranoid submind says - Go for it, ASAP! - and foolishly I did. My installation

BOP Linux User Group - July 16

BOP Linux User Group - July 16

Wandered over to the BOPLUG meeting held in LJ Hookers on Cameron and 8th in Tauranga - the first Tuesday each month at 7:00pm. A friendly bunch with wide ranging interest in all things Linux - Robert, John, Denver, Fridolin, Craig, Trevor, Chris - the group includes quite a

Debian rocks

Kernel 4.5 to 4.6 upgrade I'm running 4-series kernels on Jessie aka Debian-8 (latest Intel network drivers doanchano), this is a cinch... all you need is to add this into your sources - e.g. sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie_backports.list and add the

Big Bad Blog

Setting up a collection of blogs with Ghost... Environment * Debian Jessie, with jessie-backports 4-series kernel * Apt configured for Minimal package install - no recommends - security doncha know * Nginx- currently HTTP, no SSL Requirement * Personal blogging for family members * Five individual thereof, each an own blog with personally selected theme.

NGINX multi-site HTTPS

NGINX multi-site HTTPS

So I've discovered that NGINX supports multiple HTTPS virtual hosts using a single IP/SSL certificate (with SAN) - woohoo, hats off to Nginx! As part of the Big Bad Blog [https://normus.totahi.com/big-bad-blog] project, I want to host distinct Ghost blogs for various family members. The Authoring

Ghost with the Most

Ghost with the Most

Ghost Installation - as part of the Big Bad Blog [https://normus.totahi.com/big-bad-blog] project, I lightly followed http://support.ghost.org/installing-ghost-linux/ - which directs you first to install NodeJS - and recommends 0.10.x. Once you have NodeJS installed, you grab the Ghost zip and set

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