Day to Day Log

Created by: Lester Caine, 13 July 2025
Last modified: 13 July 2025

Friday 1 of August, 2025

By Lester Caine
1 August 2025

A lot has been happening over the last week and I have a lot more that I really need to document! The new server is up and running live and for anonymous users I think I've actually cracked everything although there may still be a few niggles. Some of the security factors keep sticking their head up such as SELinux blocking my php port after I'd rebooted the machine to check. Switching off SELinux was the short term fix, but now I have sorted the settings and an automatic reboot…

Thursday 24 of July, 2025

By Lester Caine
24 July 2025

This is the first post via the new webserver setup. Have been having a bit of fun as the seven sites currently active all have different customisations and each needs some work still to remove the remaining non-functional parts such as a couple of sites not rendering the 'pagination' where there are more than 10 pages to display. In addition, the blogs package has not had any love in a long time so in addition to updating to the current programming rules of PHP8.4, it also needed mode…

Wednesday 16 of July, 2025

By Lester Caine
15 July 2025

Did I really bid ...

Must have been having a bit of a brainstorm, but when this lot popped up on a search it looked interesting at the time. It was listed as "Large scratch built wooden galleon ship on stand, H 95cm x L 105cm" with only two images although there was probably enough to go on prior to the sale to gather some more information. It was obviously not scratch built, but was from a kit and it looked like a fairly modern one given what detail could be seen. I'…

Tuesday 15 of July, 2025

By Lester Caine
14 July 2025

Having had a nice day out yesterday, despite over 7 hours in the car (more in a rant), I sat down this morning to check a few facts. I was looking to check up a little more of my own time line, but first hit was my involvement with Firebird. I had been using it since the fort from Interbase, so when Mozilla tried to mussel in on the name I was quite vocal that it WOULD cause a conflict. I tried using Mistral to establish a few facts, but it quickly became obvious that facts are something that…

Saturday 12 of July, 2025

By Lester Caine
12 July 2025

If it's not one thing it's another. Broadband has been out in Evesham for 4 days finally being restored yesterday. At least I should now see some automatic compensation, but having been without broadband for 6 days in the last three weeks I feel that 2 days compension is just a con? While the fibre was down I was using the phone's hotspot to at least stay in touch, but that can't restore the fixed IP address and websites. In any case the whole reason I had to get fibre fitted…