Copy your config.bin file to linux then run this command to create a decrypted config.txt :
openssl enc -d -des-ecb -nopad -K 478DA50BF9E3D2CF -in config.bin > config.txt
Copy your config.bin file to linux then run this command to create a decrypted config.txt :
openssl enc -d -des-ecb -nopad -K 478DA50BF9E3D2CF -in config.bin > config.txt
In the past, I have paid £1000+vat a year for hosting to feed by hosting addiction. This has whittled down in price over the years and now I’m paying just £42 inc vat!
Some good value providers in the UK are 123-reg.co.uk and UK2.net I’ve been with both of them and had a few annoyances (switching my server off | Selling me hosting that was supposed to be maintained, but wasn’t | Me asking them to reboot the host and them saying that it wasn’t where is was supposed to be. Me asking again… them saying it’s still not there and closing the call) over the years, but in all-in-all they’re worth the money.
However, this has become an absolute no-brainer very recently… My new provider charge just £3.50 a month for SSD based VPS (mine feels super fast!) www.vps.net
I have used a reseller account in the past and this had all sorts of features like a system for your users to manage their own accounts and resell too. It all seemed a bit messy to me and eventually I’ve gone for managing it all myself with a few custom written scripts that do things perfectly.
I’ll expand this section as and when.
Prerequisites
My setup
I travel from Manchester to Stafford. My missus leaves the house about 15 mins before I am due to arrive. The train stop before Stafford is Crewe and the time difference is about 22 mins… perfect timing to message her if late.
So for my example I did the following…
A further extension to this would be to create another Event which detects Entering Crewe and if the LateToCreweSentSMS is set to True then send another text to say that I have just arrived at Crewe and should be around 22 mins.
EDIT: This isn’t working brilliantly at the moment, as if the train hangs around just outside the station waiting for a platform, then Llama thinks that it has arrived. I’m working on some logic to detect that it has arrived and then left the area for 5 mins before texting.
The Llama application is a free automation tool available on the Google Play store.
I have recently set up a few things that make my life much easier.
1) Automatically pre-book my Cross Country seat using their TMR (ten minute reservation) service – if I’m at work at 9:30am.
2) Automatically SMS my missus if I haven’t arrived at the train station before my destination by 18:05. See here for details on how to do it.
Please comment with life automation that you have come up with.
Okay, I’m a numpty – I forgot the admin password for my router. The (security driven) delay before you can try again is hampering me from trying the many I might have used – especially as it doesn’t tell you if it was wrong or it is still timed out!
Luckily, on one of my computers, I have a cookie saved that fills my username and password in for me, so I can still log in. Okay, so I must be able to recover my password from this… right? I really don’t want to have to factory reset the thing. Challenge… wait for it… accepted.
I’ve just whipped up a 3D Robots game that runs inside MineCraft on the Raspberry Pi.
Bring up a VXTerminal window and run the following command
git clone https://github.com/ZeBadger/minecraft-robots.git
Start a MineCraft game on your Raspberry Pi and then in VXTerminal run the following commands
cd minecraft-robots python minecraft-robots.py
Run away from the robots. If they touch you – you lose. Try and get them to crash into each other by moving strategically. Kill all 10 robots to win!
Have fun !