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Building the Perfect Beast: December 2013
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Wednesday, 11 December 2013. Minecraft Backup for MultiWorld servers. We've always used the linux startup script. From the minecraft wiki and this gives us the added benefit of easy world backups without having to shut the service down. Backups are triggered from an entry in the crontab as below. It wasn'...
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Building the Perfect Beast: March 2014
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Monday, 31 March 2014. What do you mean it's illegal? From June 1st it will become *legal* to rip your CDs in the UK. I hear you say, "I didn't know it wasn't". Anyone investing any time breaching these measures is then clearly a pirate! Times they are a changing. And this to include all digital formats, ...
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Building the Perfect Beast: Web Scanning for Devices on your network using Nmap and Perl
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Friday, 7 August 2015. Web Scanning for Devices on your network using Nmap and Perl. As I run a web server at my home, I decided to put together a quick webpage that scans for devices and shows the result on a smartphone. In it's simplest form just enter:-. Nmap 192.168.1.*. Nmap 192.168.1.1-20. Anyway, i...
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Building the Perfect Beast: October 2014
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Tuesday, 7 October 2014. Removing the Repetition in Code (The Array). Is the act of creating code that is difficult for humans to understand. Wikipedia suggests this is done deliberately, but I think that sometimes the best intentions go awry. The Code as I found it. Function showimg(imgId,imgAct) {.
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Building the Perfect Beast: Linux Minecraft Server Script (multi-server, multi-world)
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Linux Minecraft Server Script (multi-server, multi-world). We've been running Minecraft servers on our Linux machine for about a year now and we started off using the startup script from the minecraft wiki here. The updated version that we're now using. Creative hungergames spawn griefcity'. Nb Make sure ...
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Building the Perfect Beast: Raspberry Pi Diary - Scratch GPIO and 7 Segment Displays
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Tuesday, 10 February 2015. Raspberry Pi Diary - Scratch GPIO and 7 Segment Displays. The standard version of scratch can't control the GPIO, so you need to install ScratchGPIO7 before you can play with LED's and switches. I googled the install instructions but here they are if you need them:-. 1 The T-Cob...
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Building the Perfect Beast: June 2014
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Friday, 6 June 2014. Adding a Second Minecraft Server in Linux. We've been using the linux startup script. Creating the New Minecraft Installation. 1 Make a copy of your existing Minecraft installation. Cp -Rv /opt/minecraft /opt/kidcraft. Server-name : Pinga (enter your new server name). If you use the b...
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Building the Perfect Beast: January 2015
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Thursday, 29 January 2015. Raspberry Pi Diary - Refuses To Boot. I've wasted a lot of time over the last 24 hours trying to get my 32Gb SD card formatted correctly. Today I tried loading the raspbian image file (from http:/ raspberrypi.org/) to the card using the 'dd' command in a terminal window. Then we...
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Building the Perfect Beast: Raspberry Pi Diary - Breakout Boards
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Building the Perfect Beast. It started as a blog about building a mini-ITX server running Linux. Since then I've posted more general articles about computer software, hardware and anything else related. Wednesday, 4 February 2015. Raspberry Pi Diary - Breakout Boards. I got one, but lets just say I made a few mistakes! It comes in kit form, requiring the ribbon socket and header pins to be soldered together before you can use it. There's a simple diagram that suggests how the ribbon connector should ...