Category: Technology
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monitor ghosting? It could be a 1 minute quick fix…
Could it be that simple? My 2nd monitor was ‘ghosting’ – or showing a dark shadow to the right of my image, it left me blinking and thinking I had dirty eyeglasses… and yes… the suggested fix was so simple, that I couldn’t believe it would work…. so, did it work? What was the solution…
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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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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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MS Internet Explorer – falling apart at the seams?
Perhaps not quite, but major issues made public on Saturday, and not a patch in sight… * Internet Explorer Vulnerability affect ALL versions of MS IE. * Another way to make your Microsoft Internet Explorer safer – Disable ActiveX Greg’s blogs today… busy Monday eh?
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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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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……