[Blackpool] Saturday

Fri Feb 13 13:29:06 UTC 2015

Re 'dormant' - yes, public-facing, but no longer actively maintained
Wordpress sites.

Re the forum - not Belinda Carlise or Jo Guest-related I'm afraid! Long
story short, I used to be a member of a music-related forum until a few
years ago. After some regime change, which we didn't like, we upped sticks
and made a new home for ourselves.

I'm afraid I haven't quite reached the levels of doing anything intriguing
or worthy yet!

Best wishes,
James

On 13 February 2015 at 13:22, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I once worked with a guy that let slip he maintained the No1 fan
> website for a world famous pop star but we were all intrigued when he
> wouldn't give up the URL or who it was.
>
> After a while and snooping of some logs it came out it was Belinda
> Carlisle, the website has gone but it was halftheworld.com.  After a bit
> this guy unravelled and confessed he was obsessed with her.
>
> This was in a dev team where the culture was a bit macho/competitive
> and he lost his footing in the pecking order entirely.  It was never the
> same for him.
>
>
> Another guy I once knew maintained an online repository of Jo Guest (page
> 3 stunna model at the time) animated gifs.  You'd have never guessed
> talking to him.
>
>
>
> I confess, I am totally intrigued and wasting my Friday afternoon trying
> to guess what subject James would run a forum on.
>
> Regards
>
> Arthur
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:08:11 +0000
> > From: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com
> > To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Saturday
>
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > I'm with HTTPZoom. I think it's the following package:
> >
> > Platform OpenVZ
> > 4GB Dedicated Ram
> > 4GB vSwap Ram
> > 50GB Diskspace
> > 2TB Transfer
> > 4 Core CPU Fair Share
> > 100mb Shared Port
> > SolusVM Control Panel
> > Maidenhead Location
> >
> > I don't suspect a resources issue - at least, Webmin isn't showing any
> > unusual RAM or CPU usage, anyway.
> >
> > I'm running a myBB forum on Apache. It's only got a handful of members
> and
> > posts each day, whilst the other sites being hosted are also dormant,
> > low-traffic WP sites.
> >
> > The forum's only started to run noticeably slow over the past week or so.
> > I'd had a look at some Apache optimisation pages, but they didn't tally
> > with what I saw in my httpd.conf file, so I didn't touch it.
> >
> > I thought it might be brute force attempts on the server which were
> slowing
> > things down, so I made some changes in iptables to close off SSH as a
> route
> > in, whilst I increased my Cloudflare security settings to deal with those
> > trying to get in via Web. No change, but at least I think I managed to
> > deal with some security issues.
> >
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > James
> >
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > James
> >
> > On 13 February 2015 at 12:39, Michael <heed at bigmassiveheed.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > @Elizabeth
> > >
> > > For an amusing abut aimed at numpties look at how the internet works
> have a
> > > look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBWhzz_Gn10
> > >
> > > @Arthur
> > >
> > > It can be explained simpler than that....If I get some time I'll knock
> > > something together.
> > >
> > > @James
> > >
> > > Who is the VPS provider and what level package have you got.
> > > Are you going via Apache or nginX
> > > Important question....is it a Wordpress site?
> > >
> > > On 13 February 2015 at 12:25, Arthur Garlick <
> arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm sceptical that it can be written in a useful guide, or else I'd
> have
> > > > found one someone else had done that fit the job when I googled it.
> > > >
> > > > In my mind it's more a learning by doing experience than a written
> down
> > > > guide. We do need a crib sheet at the end with the details of the
> things
> > > > we did so that people can go off and do the experiments in their own
> > > time.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So:
> > > > ipV4 addresses, how to find yours.
> > > >
> > > > Difference between our ip address and a real fixed ip on the
> internet.
> > > > Touch on Class C and what is DHCP on a local router.
> > > >
> > > > What is a router, why do we need one.
> > > >
> > > > What a web server is and does. HTML. What actually is a browser.
> Whats
> > > > that http:// about, and https:// ?
> > > >
> > > > How we find all of these webservers without knowing ip addresses of
> > > > everything - DNS
> > > >
> > > > Routing worldwide, the origins of internet and robustness of packet
> > > > switching.
> > > >
> > > > Traceroute, just like on the TV with the hackers, where did the data
> > > visit
> > > > on it's way to us
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'd cover all that in 15 minutes but by doing hands on stuff, like
> this:
> > > >
> > > > find out your ip address using command line
> > > > find out ip address of someone else's pc
> > > > notice similarities in the ip address's (talk about DHCP, router,
> real ip
> > > > addresses vs class C.)
> > > > ping somebody elses ip address in the room, what does that time mean?
> > > > open the router setup in a browser look at DHCP (need to ask about
> > > that...)
> > > > Have a machine with a standalone web server running and access it via
> > > http
> > > > direct from its ip
> > > > Open the default html file on the server and edit it
> > > > Do view source at the browser side
> > > > Quick overview of the F12 debug features in a browser are to find the
> > > code
> > > > behind a particular area in a big web page
> > > > Use reverse DNS to look up an ip of a famous site
> > > > Ping that ip address - understand what just happened request and
> response
> > > > compare time with the local ping.
> > > > Use traceroute to see how that data was routed across the world
> > > >
> > > > Also something about what Jo (and James!) does, managing VMs that
> are on
> > > > boxes physically half way around the world and the reasoning to have
> two
> > > > VMs.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Maybe back it up with a handout which might need to be custom to the
> kit
> > > > that person has so that the commands are right for them
> > > > Mint/Ubuntu/PC/Raspbian. In my mind it's too hard to have a proper
> > > printed
> > > > guide... too many variables. (But we can try!)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So in my mind it's a snappy practical exercise (15mins might be
> > > > optimistic) that we can do with all sorts of people, this would be
> just
> > > as
> > > > good done with Pis at the CoderDojo or new families that visit the
> > > > Makerspace for example.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I am a dev, I just do the code, there are people on here that could
> take
> > > > the idea and improve it or put it in the bin and do it better from
> > > > scratch... PLEASE DO!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > > >
> > > > Arthur
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:46:20 +0000
> > > > > From: heed at bigmassiveheed.co.uk
> > > > > CC: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Saturday
> > > > >
> > > > > How deep do you want this guide to be?
> > > > >
> > > > > On 13 February 2015 at 10:47, Elizabeth C <
> > > > elizabethcoop1945 at hotmail.co.uk>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > re " I want to write down what will be in our 15 minute practical
> > > > guide to
> > > > > > how the internet works."
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I would be sooooo very grateful for something like that
> written....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Elizabeth
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > From: arthur_garlick at hotmail.com
> > > > > > > To: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com; blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > > > > > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:01:05 +0000
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Saturday
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > The plan with the Pi wearable got changed to me delivering it
> to
> > > Les
> > > > and
> > > > > > Tom at Mereside tomorrow morning. We will be making a slightly
> late
> > > > > > appearance at the makerspace.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I know nothing James! But interested.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Been busy this week, I'll be playing with the Arduino
> compatible
> > > > Teensy
> > > > > > and working out what the 'compatible' there actually means.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I want to write down what will be in our 15 minute practical
> guide
> > > to
> > > > > > how the internet works.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Or maybe I'll just drink coffee, sit back and pontificate on
> the
> > > vast
> > > > > > expanse of things tech that doth offend mine eye.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > See you tomorrow
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > A
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:42:29 +0000
> > > > > > > > From: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com
> > > > > > > > To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > > > > > > Subject: [Blackpool] Saturday
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Ahoyehoyey, peeps!
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > If there's anybody coming on Saturday who knows their way
> around
> > > a
> > > > Web
> > > > > > > > server, could you help me out with a site on my VPS? I run a
> > > small
> > > > > > forum
> > > > > > > > and it's recently started running pretty slowly - I'm at a
> loss
> > > as
> > > > to
> > > > > > what
> > > > > > > > it could be. I haven't noticed anything unusual in terms of
> > > > processes
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > > > memory.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > James
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