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Monday, August 1st, 2016
Sad day for me. After nearly 30 years of technology, saving files, programs, pictures, and so much more - ended up losing everything in a large data loss incident. Over the years, storage needs have grown and grown. I have moved from servers with physical disks that were shared via ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
After a bit of an issue with one of my WordPress sites, I noticed that the versions I had been running had become very long in the tooth. There were many vulnerabilities with the older version, and one had been exploited so it was time for an upgrade. The upgrades ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2015
After struggling for the last week or so, with inbound SMTP failing – I have decided to steer clear of default smtp port 25 service for my network. ISP’s get in the middle of it, annoyingly, and cause issue. Helpful tools for toubleshooting were a port check tool, and the ...
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
Tired of all the hack attempts against my wordpress installs. So finally :
upgrade to latest release
installed brute force attack plugins
installed security plugins
created .htaccess files in each deployment, which is from here, and looked like this :
# protect xmlrpc from https://perishablepress.com/wordpress-xmlrpc-pingback-vulnerability/
<Files xmlrpc.php>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.1
</Files>
# protect wp-cron from https://perishablepress.com/wordpress-xmlrpc-pingback-vulnerability/
<Files ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2015
I had been looking for a way to do some “date math” in linux. Normally I use perl and the date manipulation modules, but this time I needed something that would work in linux without the extras. Note that this won’t work in Solaris or AIX unless they have the ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2014
After the whole recent shellshock vulnerability issue, I decided it was finally time to upgrade my web hosts. I have upgraded (and replatformed) many times over the years :
I think the first web host I had ever exposed to the outside world from my home network was a RedHat 5.2 ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
I’ve dealt with this issue for quite a while, but never really recorded the info. Now that I forget more and more of these fixes, its time to start writing them down. I often have Linux servers with Samba shares, and some of these are still the older releases of ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2014
After changing NAS devices some time ago, I realized I have no updated my iTunes library in quite a long time. My drive name has changed, as have the sub folders – so it wasn’t possible to simply mount my new NAS in the old location. This screwed up iTunes, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
Received my new “MagicJackPlus 2014” (MJP) upgrade kit for my gen-1 original Magic Jack. I no longer need to have a dedicated laptop in my office for this purpose, which enables that laptop to do more work now. The MagicJackPlus-2014 is a much bigger device, with two USB ports in ...
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
After my tried and true, trusty MP3 tag editor would no longer function (due to new pc, new o/s, etc), I had to find a replacement. I keep my music organized in folders, by artist, then by album, then by song – and I like the songs to have specific ...
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