Category: The Future
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Detecting if page is SSL in PHP – or – PHP SSL or NOT
In much earlier versions of PHP, it was easy to through a quick and dirty piece of code together and not worry about the php warnings – my first SSL-or-NOT detection was this simple: if ($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] != “on”) { $proto = ‘http’; } else { $proto = ‘https’; } But with the introduction of PHP…
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TrixBox 2.6 Updates failing – libevent and memcached – can you fix them? Should you? NO – leave them the heck alone!!
Running yum on an old trixbox yielded problems – it just couldn’t get past a dependency error… Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies –> Running transaction check –> Processing Dependency: libevent-1.1a.so.1 for package: memcached —> Package libevent.i386 0:1.4.13-1 set to be updated –> Finished Dependency Resolution memcached-1.2.2-2.rf.i386 from installed has depsolving problems –> Missing Dependency:…
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Someone posted this picture of Putin and Obama…
and said… “Caption this…” someone else came up with this … I thought it amusing… can you come up with a better caption? (go on.. give it a try…)
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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??
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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… Here is how to fix that… 1. ssh to the machine – su to root……
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Installing Windows Home Server onto a drive smaller than 160Gb
I 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 idiot limit when I found this article… http://connecteddigitalworld.com/2011/09/20/installing-whs-2011-or-sbs-2011-essentials-on-ssd-or-sata-hard-drives-smaller-than-160gb Installing WHS 2011 on SSD or SATA Hard Drives smaller than 160GB September 20,…
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Any support technician has calls like this …
Remember the Google pacman game? This guy will – he’ll dine out on this story for years to come…