Parsing “Weather Display” weather station output

As I am sure most of you are aware by now, I’m a keen pilot, and as I’m sure most of you can work out, knowing what the weather is doing is kinda critical. My club operates a weather station, and during the tower’s operating hours, the data is uploaded to the internet. I thought […]

Marcus Povey

As I am sure most of you are aware by now, I’m a keen pilot, and as I’m sure most of you can work out, knowing what the weather is doing is kinda critical. My club operates a weather station, and during the tower’s operating hours, the data is uploaded to the internet. I thought […]

JQuery 1.9 for Elgg

JQuery is a popular, fantastically useful, and not to mention powerful, Javascript library used by many web applications around the Internet. The current version of it is 1.9.1, but unfortunately the latest release of Elgg is still tied to a frankly ancient version (1.6). Recently, I needed a more recent version of jquery in order […]

Marcus Povey

JQuery is a popular, fantastically useful, and not to mention powerful, Javascript library used by many web applications around the Internet. The current version of it is 1.9.1, but unfortunately the latest release of Elgg is still tied to a frankly ancient version (1.6). Recently, I needed a more recent version of jquery in order […]

Using Fail2Ban to secure your Elgg site

Fail2Ban is a simple, but powerful, open source intrusion detection and prevention system which can run on most POSIX compliant operating systems. It works by monitoring various system logs for signs of intrusion attempts (failed logins etc), and on finding them, executes a preconfigured action. Typically, this action is to block further access attempts from […]

Marcus Povey

Fail2Ban is a simple, but powerful, open source intrusion detection and prevention system which can run on most POSIX compliant operating systems. It works by monitoring various system logs for signs of intrusion attempts (failed logins etc), and on finding them, executes a preconfigured action. Typically, this action is to block further access attempts from […]