My name is Phil Thane, if you want the whole thing it’s Philip Alan Thane. I’m a freelance writer and editor of a small magazine. In the last few weeks I’ve had emails addressed: Dear Editor, Phil Hi Phil Thane Hi phil@pthane.co.uk Dear philthane (my username on some websites) Hi @pthane (Twitter handle) Hi Thane! … Read more »
Category: Cloud
Marketing, data and forgetting the human
We (or more specifically, my wife) changed our energy supplier yesterday. This morning she got a text message from our former supplier, ‘ We are sorry to lose you…’. She snorted and moved on. It happens all the time, change a supplier, unsubscribe from something and moments later your phone pings with a personalised message. … Read more »
Nextcloud(2)
As promised the server now runs Nextcloud and MySQL. Unfortunately Nextcloud was forked from the latest version of ownCloud and requires the latest ownCloud client on the desktop. Which wasn’t supported by my operating system a LTS version of Linux Mint based on Ubuntu 14.10. So I waited for the next KDE version of Mint … Read more »
Nextcloud
I’ve blogged about ownCloud before, and written a couple of features about it for MM. Unlike a lot of software that I’ve installed, tested, written about then forgotten, ownCloud is in regular use. My entire /home/phil directory is synced to an ownCloud server, which is just an old Athlon 3500+ desktop sat in my office, … Read more »
It’s Cloudy again
ownCloud on my webserver works just fine. But the obvious snag is that web host companies charge for storage space, and generally charge more than a dedicated cloud storage provider. ownCloud have thought of this and provide a plugin to connect to external storage using various common protocols. Given that I got into ownCloud because … Read more »
There’s a ghost in my blog
More of my ‘ghost blogging’ for a leading IT company published today. Contact me for details and access if you need a techie blogger Read more »
No More Google
I’m not paranoid, nor a conspiracy theorist, but I do like my privacy. I choose what goes on my website and it’s all business stuff, family life is off limits. Big business doesn’t work like that, they want to know as much as possible about everyone because they think it makes it easier to sell … Read more »
More Ghosting
Finished seven 500 word blogs and two shorter ones for an IT company you’ve never heard of, unless you work in corporate IT. Unfortunately they go out under a director’s name, so if you want to know more about that side of my work, contact me. Read more »
ownCloud (3)
My piece on setting up my ownCloud was published by MicroMart last week. I guess most paying customers have seen it already, so for the rest of you, here it is. Read more »
ownCloud (2)
SSL certificates being expensive I discovered that my web host offers a ‘shared SSL’ system. Basically the hosting company pays for secure site on https, sets up pages for it’s customers, then forwards to the customer’s page. So I got a secure link to my ownCloud free. Setting up was fairly simple, but then I’m … Read more »