Category: Technology

monitor ghosting? It could be a 1 minute quick fix…

Last updated on September 2nd, 2022 at 07:04 amCould 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……

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…

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…

Free reading material….

Last updated on September 14th, 2014 at 05:44 pmAmazon has an ever changing list of free ebooks here: http://www.amazon.com/b?node=2245146011 Want free audio books? How about 550 of them? http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Overselling – an industry standard or a dinosaur waiting for extinction?

Last updated on September 4th, 2014 at 08:40 amThe term 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…

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…

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…

TrixBox 2.6 Updates failing – libevent and memcached – can you fix them? Should you? NO – leave them the heck alone!!

Last updated on May 14th, 2020 at 01:00 pmRunning 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…

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……