Author: A Social Animal
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How to install a new Wildcard SSL
How to install a new certificate into Parallels Plesk Automation read the docs, realize that the docs are not up to date, email support, get links to new docs, follow the docs noting carefully that they contain both pre and post 11.5 instructions (which are different), SSH into box(es) and carefully change configuration files (make…
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Is your WiFi slow? How to make your WiFi faster…
Have you wondered why your WiFi connection seems a little slow? Sluggish? Like downloading your web pages through treacle? The problem isn’t that your WiFi Router or Access-Point is old, slow or just broken – the problem is most likely that you have ‘WiFi crowding’. Crowding? How can a Wifi get “crowded”? Well the answer…
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Caving on North Korean threats sends the WRONG message
The Washington Post and I don’t often agree – but in this case, we do.. There is no way we should cave on this – given that there are reports from defectors that the People’s Republic has it’s hands in CyberWarfare, it’s not entirely clear what the proper response would be, but how about we…
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WordPress[DOT]com shortcode comes to WordPress self hosted… sort of…
I’ve always wanted a “display posts” shortcode in self-hosted WordPress – because it’s so handy – there is on in WordPress.com blogs, but to self-hosted, it never came… 🙁 so I found this plugin: Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more but I have more than enough plugins – so added it to…
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Overselling – an industry standard or a dinosaur waiting for extinction?
The term [glossary]overselling[/glossary] is synonymous with web hosting – almost every host promises you the earth, moon and stars – and then expects you to not want to use them. So – in web hosting – almost all hosts promise “unlimited disk space” – or “unlimited transfer” – the reality is that there will either…
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Weak passwords must DIE…
Short, dictionary based password must DIE… and here’s why: We have just found a fairly strong, but short email password compromised on a server (which only has two customers on it) – this allowed scammers from Thailand to send out emails via the customer’s account for a number of hours before they were detected.