Just incase you are planning on blacking out your site(s) on April 22nd, 2013 I’ve made a sample CISPA page which I think is pretty decent. All you have to do is save it as index.html and put it in your domains root folder/directory. Obviously you’ll want to back up your existing index.html file first.
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I like to think of it as a door man for my server, or my little centurion What this little guy does is checked the last 5 hours of access logs to your server to see if there are any IP’s that are hitting your server an unusually high amount of times. If it finds
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This was something that I seemed to have figured out and forgot again so I’ll blog about it this time to keep it permanently in memory Anyways, so the deal is when you add a new email account in thunderbird it creates a specific set of folders and subfolders for that new email address.
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I know I just did, what a piece of garbage service. Here’s what happened: I wanted to change the path to my gdrive on my hard drive so I did a little research and found how to disconnect my account and change locations. So I disconnect it, take my ‘Google Drive’ folder from it’s usually
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Well this was a good one, and the solution is insanely easy and simple. Go and check the path to ffmpeg in your video transcoder setting. When transfering over from my old server the path was /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg (bsd) and on my current debian server it is /usr/bin/ffmpeg so yeeeaaaa that will screw you up something
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So, new install of drupal based on an existing install led to this lovely error when testing out the image upload process: PHP Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in imagecache/imagecache.module on line 902. Upgrading it to the latest dev version didn’t fix the issue but it seems to all come down to fUpload being hopelessly out
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So this was a little bit of a doozy that stumped me today but a simple retrace my steps routine quickly brought me to the source of the problem. After following the security message in the status page to make sure my /sites/default directory wasn’t writable I chmodded it 444, assuming that would work.. Well
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So today I was installing drupal on a new domain based on a skeleton install I setup so that I could replicate our CMS across different domains for different divisions in my company. Anyways when doing so I noticed that I wasn’t able to delete some of the menu items created by previous taxonomy. I
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Well today my server was being killed by something or other and after 30 minutes of trying to track down what it was I decided to spend my time optimizing my server and implementing a proper caching mechanism (finally!). I come from a BSD background and we ran eAccelerator on all of our servers so
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Simple little solution that has been plaguing me all week. We just upgraded our router and after scanning the local networks I found that channel 11 was completely unused so I switched it to that and man oh man that was nothing but a bad idea. Even though channel 11 was the emptiest channel I’ve
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