by Chris Wiltshire | Jul 26, 2019 | Computing / Electronics
My new dashcam on my bike creates a heap of 5-minute video files as it records. Depending on whether or not I have hit the ‘Save’ button on the handlebars, the filename will start with a different pre-fix. Embedded within the middle of the filename is the...
by Chris Wiltshire | Nov 9, 2018 | Computing / Electronics
Background: We’re shifting from an environment which used to use ldirectord for our load balancing to haProxy, predominantly because it can perform SSL termination, layer 7 filtering etc. It’s far more flexible in terms of how it can cater for multiple SSL...
by Chris Wiltshire | Aug 7, 2018 | Computing / Electronics
I had the joy of coming across Bcrypt the other week, a pretty neat way of storing individually hashed passwords within a single table, each with a differing salt. The salt, algorithm and number of hashing iterations is stored, written within the outputted hash, so...
by Chris Wiltshire | Nov 8, 2017 | Computing / Electronics
This builds on my previous post: http://www.wiltshire.net/2017/10/29/flicker-lights-for-the-r1/ The auxiliary lights project on the R1 continues, tonight I’ve completed the transition from the physical relay unit to a MOSFET power transistor – the relay...
by Chris Wiltshire | Oct 31, 2017 | Computing / Electronics
Ok. So our first night in Rotorua this year happened to be Halloween. So there were a few people in fancy dress out tonight. Guess who I spotted?? You might need to open the full sized original image (click) and zoom in to see 🙂 My Facebook post of this was a Fail...
by Chris Wiltshire | Oct 29, 2017 | Computing / Electronics, Motorcycling
So. Watching the Iron Butt Rally riders depart on their huge rally earlier this year inspired me to want to build an electronic controller for my auxiliary lights which I had already fitted to my R1. In prep for my Saddle Sore 1600k ride in March this year I...
