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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How to Adjust the Clock on a Panasonic Hybrid Phone System
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 [...]
READ MORE »How to Disable Phone Options on a DSC Alarm Panel when Converting to Envisalink Internet Alarm Monitoring
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 »How to Reboot with a Bash Input/Output Error
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.
READ MORE »CheatCodes.com Goes Mobile!
Just in time for the holidays, CheatCodes.com has launched a mobile-optimized version of their video game cheats website. As with the mobile versions of many other popular sites (such as Facebook and Google), you can access the mobile version of the website by putting an “m” in front of the address: http://m.cheatcodes.com/ If you’re not on a [...]
READ MORE »Product Review: Skytech SKY-5310 Fireplace Remote Control
As part of our preparations for winter, my wife gently reminded me last week that she’s been asking me to fix the gas fireplaces in the house for months. But as a geek’s geek, I can’t just fix a fireplace, I have to upgrade a fireplace! We have three gas fireplaces in our house — [...]
READ MORE »How to Back Up a Linux Server to Amazon S3 with Duplicity and AutoMySQLBackup
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 »Ecobee Discussion Forum for Owners, Installers, and Enthusiasts
I’ve written a number of posts about the Ecobee Smart Thermostat since installing my first one in 2010. Since then, I’ve received a number of comments and emails asking if I knew of any discussion forums for Ecobee users. I didn’t, so I decided to launch my own using Google Groups. The Ecobee Users group [...]
READ MORE »How To Use a Free StartSSL Certificate in Postfix for SSL/TLS
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 »Git Commands I Like
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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