HTTP Status Endpoint for UptimeKuma for PHP websites like WordPress Standard So after I saw TechnoTim’s latest video showcasing a project called Uptime Kuma, he shows how to setup and use Uptime Kuma for monitoring websites and network services running under TCP. One of the problems with monitoring a website, such as one powered with WordPress, if you don’t use decent caching, the uptime check can put a bit of a load on your server, and it will have a longer response time. Continue reading
PSXMinimise Standard So it was late one night and I couldn’t sleep, which is nothing abnormal for me and I got thinking. Is there any way I can improve the compression ratio of my collection of PS1 games, or was 7zip with LZMA the de-facto and best option? The truth it turns out is a little more complicated. Updated 2021-07-15: Article finished, downloads and final conclusions added! Continue reading
Grandstream GXP1610 Reboot-o-matic Standard I wrote a nice little script to fix a problem I’ve been having with my work VOIP phone. It would lose connection but the screen wouldn’t let you know it had. I didn’t notice that it hadn’t been connected for *two* weeks until someone left a voicemail. The phone did have a built in SSH interface, which had a reboot command, so I tried using ssh -i key admin@phone < commands.txt to feed it a bunch of commands. I had to pipe a text command to ssh because it doesn’t use a ‘real’ shell on the phone, just Grandstream’s proprietary command interface, which doesn’t accept commands directly when called from ssh. This was okay, it restarted the phone but it would also reset the password back to ‘admin’. Not very secure really… So I looked for a way to reboot it using the web interface. I fired up Firefox’s network debugger and started to reverse engineer how commands were processed. Continue reading
