Hull Blogs

Aggregated posts from University of Hull students

Beginning my Descent.

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…
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Santander has broken Nameservers.

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…
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Locking sites with Nginx Proxy Manager

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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My current VPS setup

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…
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Securing DNS on Fedora 35.

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…
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A ramble about GitHub

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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Securing NTP on Fedora 34.

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…
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Making your own blog

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…
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Welcome to Freeside

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…
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Introduction to Raspberry Pi

So you want to find out about the Raspberry Pi? I would be surprised if you've never heard of them, since they seem to have exploded in popularity in recent years. They are very popular with those who…
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