So it turns out, running a full Minecraft server on a Pi doesn’t lead to a great user experience. Even with only two players at times the lag caused disconnections or blocks to disappear. Our next attempt at a Minecraft server turned to Pocket Edition, and an open source solution called PocketMine, written in our […]
Minecraft Server on a Pi
My 6 year old recently asked me to setup a Minecraft server, so I thought Id try on a Pi on the local Network. There are lots of guides already on t’internet but all ask you to download the files to a PC and then transfer to the Pi via FTP or ssh. this sounds […]
Movember 2012
This year I was “asked” to participate in Movember 2012. By asked, a colleague took donations from the people at work to persuade me to join in. With only 5 days left, and a total on £130, we have 1 working week left till its over so I need your help! £1/£2/£5 whatever you can […]
preventing SPAM
Since I moved to my VPS, one of the biggest problems I’ve had is with spam. Not just with my email account but everyone who’s email accounts Im hosting on the VPS have all seen a sharp increase in spam emails. On the reseller server I had access to grey-listing and SpamAssassin to filter mail […]
Firefox 3.6 Released
Just in case any of you have missed it, Mozilla have just released version 3.6 of popular web browser Firefox. You can grab a copy over at http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/ or by ‘checking for updates’. There are lots of great updates in this release and pretty much all add-ons are supported so I advise you all to […]