There are times when you had a bad system and know it. And the action to keep it available is rebooting daily. While I am not in favor of the reboot, it may be necessary. So I use the following steps on a pesky Ubuntu server I know. Log into your Ubuntu server and ‘sudo […]
While I never had this happen on my Ubuntu Web Server, I have known a system in my life that seems to panic and lock up. Ubuntu Server doesn’t have this enabled by default, so I enabled it by adding the following to /etc/sysctrl.conf ‘kernal.panic=60’ This will auto reboot my server 60 seconds after a […]
Looking for a way to post to WordPress from my iPhone, I downloaded the WordPress application. Soon after running the app and attempting to connect to my site, I was notified that I need to enable XML-RPC remote publishing. That being said, I went to my site and made the following changes: If your blog […]
I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list. I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]
Paranoia, Security or Privacy Issues; All are reasons why I tunnel my web traffic though a SSH Tunnel via a remote machine. In most cases I do this because I do not trust the network I’m on and don’t want to send unencrypted traffic through it. In some cases firewalls or local network DNS prevent […]
So after some jailbreak fun and doings something wrong, I found myself stuck at a black screen just after the iPhone start-up logo. I attempted to force the iPhone to restart many times with the same results until following the next few steps to restore my iPhone to factory defaults. I needed to turn off […]