Author: A Social Animal

How to lose browsers and alienate your readers – dinosaur status in 3… 2… 1…

and the award for the most annoying website of the day goes to…. the Reporter Herald (I won’t even link them) … why you ask??

FreeNAS zfs export fails – the gui reports your volume status is …

Having exported (zfs speak for deleted) a volume, you can sometimes see the volume still in the gui… this is a problem – because it shows as a warning – and you don’t want warnings on what you already deleted……

Installing Windows Home Server onto a drive smaller than 160Gb

Last updated on May 14th, 2020 at 12:59 pmI was about to give up installing Windows Home Server 2011 onto an SSD – but eventually found this article… THANK YOU – it was surprisingly easy to get past this hard-coded…

A super moon?

Is this there a “super moon” tonight? It looked normal to me … But now clouds and a large storm obscure it…

Mets got a beating last week at the Rockies

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Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)

Last updated on June 25th, 2014 at 01:47 pmSpammers seem to have found a way of sending spam comments to your wordpress images – and there doesn’t appear (as yet) to be a way to default the options on attachments…

Maldives President gives his version of the coup that removed him

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moving from test to a live environment with WordPress

Last updated on August 21st, 2014 at 08:21 amAfter moving files from a test environment to live, still using the test environment, change the settings from http://dev.yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com However – this doesn’t fix everything – because there are HIGHLY…

If they get into your wordpress, can they execute php code?

Most wordpress exploits rely on the attacker getting into your site being able to run some kind of code – this is often DISASTROUS for your site – at the very least you can become a site infecting your visitors…

Hiding the version of WordPress

Many bots trawl the internet looking for various content management systems to exploit – how they know you’re using a particular CMS is normally easy for them to determine by looking at the source of the site – be it…