Just trying to help a friend get Wordpress running on Domain Central The one click install of Wordpress they provided was many versions behind so I deleted it and attempted to upload 3.9.1 and did the install. And then ran straight into a brick wall: Domain central is...
Just transferred this site to a Digital Ocean "droplet" which is what DO calls a VPS. The instance is being hosted in Singapore. Things I like at the moment: Fast provisioning ping times to the DO Singapore datacenter are quicker than to Rackspaces ORD data center...
Just noticed some nice fonts from Jono Bacons Dealing with Disrespect PDF book I downloaded recently Thought to myself I would like these fonts on my Fedora 20 Workstation. So I opened the PDF properties discovered the font was Ubuntu & Ubuntu Light which lead...
I have a work phone which I use as my personal phone also. So there is a lot of stuff like personal photos co-existing on the device. When I return the phone I want to know that the next IT person that get's the phone will not be able to run a file recovery utility...
Just looking at a Digital Ocean SSD performance test here http://www.itekhost.net/digitalocean-performance-benchmarks/ Decided to run my own on my Rackspace "1 GB Performance" VPS The DO benchmark gave 355MB/s note the performance of the Rackspace VPS: dd if=/dev/zero...
These tutorials are very interesting if you are running nginx and would like to use more than the standard options. http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/nginx-conf-scripting.html#1 http://openresty.org/download/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-en.html
Trying to connect to a share \\linuxpc1\jamesm from Windows 7 to a Debian box I have a local user defined with the settings below getent passwd jamesm jamesm:x:1000:1000:jamesm,,,:/home/jamesm:/bin/bash Getting an error in /var/log/samba/log.__ffff_192.168.0.109 and...
Just saw this in my inbox. An email saying I need to change my Logmein.com SSL cert and a link to 'new' cert. Screenshot of the email: If you Download the ssl.zip and unzip it you get a "logmein_ssl_certificate.pif: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows"...
I've been using http://www.netcraft.com for many years to have a look at what technologies are powering different sites, which IP netblock they are on and whether they have been moved over time. You go to the home page, find the "What’s that site running?" form, enter...
Got an error when attempting to activate office of 0x80070190 Tried running office as an adminstrator and doing the activation still got and error So started an administrative command prompt cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14 cscript ospp.vbs /act...