Having been seriously ill over the past few weeks, I take a few minutes to reflect and look to add an additional focus to my blog… As many of my loyal readers know, I have a health condition called Cystic Fibrosis [wikipedia.org]. It’s genetic and up until recently, I haven’t been too badly affected. Sadly my health isn’t as good as it has been, culminating in me spending 3 weeks in hospital (Where I am as I write this) [Read More]

Links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. Firstly yes this is a blog entry by me, I know you are all shocked and I apologise for being away so long. I am busy with my job [contemporaryfusion.co.uk] and also preparing a new version of this site. Hopefully including upgrades to Drupal 7, and a new design - (With the aim of having a fully responsive design to iPhone resolutions, as well as several popular android phones) I am hoping to launch that sometime between now (Early Nov ‘11) and New Year (Jan ‘12) [Read More]

This page is heavily out of date, as Drupal 8 is now available. Links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. I’ve not blogged for what seems like an age! I wish I had an excuse above and beyond “I’ve been working and moving house” but I don’t, so I won’t give an excuse. Oh hang on I just have. Bother! Anyway I figured I would try and update my blog more regularly in the future (I know I always say that but what the heck I’ll give it a go) I decided to write my next blog article on something that I am being asked a lot by my customers at Contemporary Fusion Computer Services [Link removed, site and company no longer actuve. [Read More]

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. If like me you need to have RPM/.deb based PHP instead of a self compiled option (For example you are using something such as Plesk which wants RPM/.deb based PHP) and you don’t want to play the rpm -Uvh --justdb (or dpkg equivalent) game I discovered today that you can compile just various modules of PHP using a combination of the phpize (found in the php-devel RPM or php5-dev deb package) [Read More]

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. Once again I am late to the party here (Well kinda) This is a beta release review and as such everything is subject to change prior to the final release. Please note: screenshots to be added at a later date, due to upload problems on my wireless connection. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is (as the name suggests) an enterprise class distribution, with support for 7 years from release. [Read More]

Some links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. Well today I bought a Vodafone Sure Signal, and in trying to set it up I came across a number of problems that were not too easy to find on the Vodafone website. Below is how I managed to set up my Suresignal. Firstly, the instruction paper you receive with your Sure Signal (SS) does not state the device will need to download a potentially large amount of updates. [Read More]

Links have been stripped from this article due to age and inaccessibility. Hello, OK I have decided to close down blog.cferthorney.com and transfer it to here. Over time I have been slowly migrating stuff to davidthorne.net and have now decided to make a concerted effort to migrate my content over, prior to my domain renewel in August! :) I am not ditching cferthorney in it’s entirety, I’ll still be tweeting there (When I remember) but my blog will be based here from now on. [Read More]