I’ve been noticing some wonkiness with the admin area of our WordPress blog at CheatCodes.com EXTRA!. Through some experimentation, I noticed that all of the issues went away if I put CloudFlare into Development Mode. This, however, isn’t a long-term fix, so I decided to create a CloudFlare Page Rule for the /wp-admin/ directory. To do [...]
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This is one of those blog posts that’s almost 100% for my own benefit, since twice a year I have to fumble around with my phone system trying to remember how to adjust the clock to and from Daylight Savings Time. Of course, this would be easier if I knew where I’d put the paper [...]
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As you may be aware from one of my previous posts, I decided to ditch both of my analog phone alarm companies in favor of digital monitoring using my Envisalink 2DS adapter which connects my DSC alarm panels to my in-home networks and, along with a host of other features, allows my alarm systems to [...]
READ MORE »Man – this post saved my bacon today: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/rebooting-magic-way Was able to reboot a CentOS box with what appears to be a failing (failed?) file system. We had backups, but we’re evacuating the server now.
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I often say there are only two types of data: data that is backed up, and data that is waiting to be lost. Even if you’re the most contentious hax0r who always backs up your data, if your backups are stored in the same physical location as the source data, then your data is still ”waiting [...]
READ MORE »The Remington Wingmaster 870 is the quintessential American shotgun. There are many other renowned shotgun makers out there, and many other shotguns that have hosts of fancy features, but like an old-timer I met at a shooting range one time told me: “Some guns just feel right like an old pair of shoes.” For me, that’s [...]
READ MORE »Most of us use self-signed SSL certificates when setting up secure SMTP connections on our servers. And why not? It’s free! You do have to put up with your mail client “warning” you that the identity of the remote server can’t be verified, but that’s worth the minor inconvenience for the price. But… what if [...]
READ MORE »This is going to be one of those posts that is probably useless to everyone else, but valuable enough to me that I’ll read it over and over. These are the Git commands I use most when working with projects on my GitHub, and with Git repos to which I have read-only access. (Big thanks to Murray K. [...]
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I found a great post by Clay Loveless who wrote a PHP script to batch invalidate files files on an Amazon Web Services CloudFront distribution. You rock, Clay. Amazon doesn’t even let us do that (yet?) via the AWS Mangament Console. Until now, when I wanted to manually invalidate a single file, I had to [...]
READ MORE »Another quick tidbit I learned when one of my CentOS boxes was slow to connect via SSH. Connection happened quickly when I would connect from a box on the same router, but connecting from my home machine caused a delay of 20-30 seconds each time. The fix was uncommenting this line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: #UseDNS yes [...]
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