The Life & Times of Rocky Hetherington

Website

It's alive!

Blog resurrected!

Website

A G-G-G-Ghost

Blog updated to run on Ghost. Hopefully i'll now post more often!

Money Saving

Cheap domains and inexpensive Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

Just a few special offers on domains and VPS that are currently available from various providers.

Website

New theme and domain move

New theme for the site.

Ad Blocking

Ad blocking using DNS and Privoxy (with Squid for caching)

Chaining Squid and Privoxy for caching and ad-blocking combined with DNS-based ad-blocking using dnsmasq.

Website

Native IPv6 on Zen and IPv6-availability for this site

My ISP, Zen, now provides native IPv6, and i've also made this site available over IPv6.

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Responsive Design

Moved my website over to the Pure.css framework.

OpenWrt

Customising OpenWrt to my needs

My customisations to OpenWrt Chaos Calmer to optimise for UK FTTC. With some additional tweaks to suit my usage.

Android

Android still doesn't support Opus ringtones

Android 5.1 only has partial support for the hot new codec.

Website

Hugo (is) Boss

An update to Hugo brings pagination to the website.

Money Saving

Mobile Downsizing

Switching tariffs on my mobile provider.

Ubuntu

Blog revisit: A quick look at Ubuntu 10.04 by a Mac user

A revisit to an earlier blog entry. This time it's about Ubuntu.

Storage

Blog revisit: Drobo

A revisit to an earlier blog entry. This time it's about Drobo.

Website

All Change

After a long hibernation i produce a new post and move the site from hand-crafted HTML to the Hugo Static Site Generator.

Ubuntu

A quick look at Ubuntu 10.04 by a Mac user

Former desktop Linux user checks in on Ubuntu 10.04 after six years on Mac OS X.

Storage

First impressions of the second generation Drobo

A month after purchase i give my initial impressions of Drobo Gen2.