Monthly Archives: April 2014

If you store data in the cloud, it belongs to the US, so the judge says

Interesting article on Reuters. U.S. judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email accounts. A summary of the effects of that are covered in that article as well as getting a mention on the UK register site. Basically all those … Continue reading

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Changes I always make to WordPress

Posted for my re-use; so I can just cut/paste from this post after every WordPress update. Due the the number of access requests for wp-login.php from ip-addresses that are clearly not authorised to use my wordpress installation I always insert … Continue reading

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Private /tmp and /var/tmp directories under systemd

Who knew, well I suppose it is in a manual somewhere. Took me a while to figure out what this was. The answer was at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12206857/php-cant-read-file-on-var-tmp I have Apache rewite rules that run a bash script from /cgi-bin/ and write … Continue reading

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Blasted Fedora, the F20 release is still a mess

Well some of the update packages are a mess anyway. Did a simple ‘yum update’ on the VM host machine. Something in one of the rpm pre/post update scripts decided to destroy the network configuration completely. The host server plus … Continue reading

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Decided to buy a new desktop to use as a server, Fedora can be a pain.

Was googling to find a solution to an issue I had a few weeks ago, and on the first page of the google results was my own website… and no it didn’t have the answer I was looking for; although … Continue reading

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