Hull Blogs

A few months ago, I started learning about containers using Docker. This has certainly been a fun experience overall (though sometimes frustrating 😛). One issue with this is rebuilding the container…

Choosing how to spend your time. This is something I struggle with regularly. In the past, I would spend every free hour of each day playing video games, from Minecraft to Crusader Kings to Heroes o…

Hey, I'm Eirika! Welcome to first post of my new blog. I plan to use this blog to record things I've learnt and tried, whether they are successes or failures, as well as maybe litter a few of my pers…

I switched to Santander UK’s student account last year, as it provided the best value for me. However I noticed I couldn’t access their Online Banking from my laptop (who’s DNS I sec…

A few months ago I made a post on Proxmox and what I run/ran on my physical home server, and whilst I have now fixed my hardware issues (by geting completely different hardware) I am yet to recreate a…

I was looking for a way to lock my sites that need some sort of authentication that does not come built in. I had tried Autheila but I could never get it working. So here is a quick tutorial on lockin…

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This post has been in the works since November 2021, or rather I thought of around then, it hasn't been until February 2022 that I have started drafting anything, as such early details about setting t…

In the previous article we secured our NTP configuration. However you will have likely noticed that the NTP servers are given as domain names, rather than IP addresses. This has benefits; as mentioned…

A ramble about GitHub by someone fairly new to it (This may become a series of posts on GitHub) First, a little background information A few years ago, back when I was in secondary school doing some…

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NTP is the protocol through which your computer ensures that the clock is accurate. It is insecure, but now can be secured through the use of NTS. This post goes through the process of configuring NTS…

Please note that I will be updating this as I go along. This is my first time using Netlify, as such I lack a lot of experience using the service so far. I have been using GitHub consistently since Se…

This post will act as an informal introduction to Freeside What is Freeside? Freeside is the student run Linux user group at the University of Hull. How do I join? Unlike many groups at a university…