Having managed to borrow my missus camera I’m able to post an update on where were at here.
The chilli’s have almost doubled in size in the last week.
My son patrick now has a cucumber which is located outside in the green tent. I’ve moved the tent away from the decking at the bottom of the [...]

This brief note covers getting an SSL certificate registered with Thawte onto a Cisco router running IOS.
1. Create the Trustpoint
This binds the SSL cert to the CA (Certificate Authority) which in this case is Thawte.  The subject is where you will specify all the usual bits you need in the cert. Also ensure that fqdn [...]

I do quite a bit of work with Virtual machines based on an ESX platform. One of the advantages of such a platform is the ability to create a template server, then duplicate copies as and when you need one. With most operating systems it’s just a question of changing the IP and hostname and [...]

Firstly grab a copy of the 64bit Ubuntu server ISO from the ubuntu website and store is somewhere you can get to from your ESX box. Over the years I have taken the approach of storing server VMDK’s on ESX’s local hard disk pushing installation media onto a NAS.
(Note: Earlier this year we went gigabit [...]

More pictures of GUS playing with the children in the garden.

It’s been a couple of days since I’ve posted an update – mainly due to the lack of camera phone.  I finally lost it with my XDA Stella which I would say is an excellent PDA – but probably the worst mobile phone I have ever had.
Grumble over and back to the chilli’s…
After bringing Huey [...]

We have decided to call the little guys “GUS”. He is now coming up to seven weeks old and he’s a real bundle of fun.
Attached is a gallery of the first photo’s we’ve taken of him playing with my son.
Also the toy we got him which he photographed playing with has also been an absolute [...]

Due to the cold overnight temperatures Huey Dewey and Louie has been brought indoors.
Huey is now being looked after by my daughter on her bedroom window.
Dewey is on the window ledge in my work room.
Louie is on the kitchen window ledge.
From the pictures you can just see two lines on the sticks in their pots. [...]

Just a quick note about sftp.
It makes good security sense to change the ssh port on servers that are Internet accessable. To take advantage of this using ssh is quite straight forward as their is a parameter -p to support this eg:
ssh -p 3432 mick@mickvaites.com
Unfortunately the same is not true for sftp (secure file transfer). [...]

Our bundle of joy has now arrived … now the fun really begins.