Chrome 70 is about to dis-trust a whole lot of certificates So you paid lots of money for a “proper” certificate for your HTTPS website after Google gave non-HTTPS sites a hard time? Well, hopefully you aren’t still using an older Symantec issued certificate as Google (and others) is about to stop trusting those certificates. …
While this is not an uncommon thing to do, I couldn’t find a straight forward example for both databases and file directories. So of course, I had to write my own (albeit based on a database only script from mittsh). For the TLDR; just go to https://github.com/mikemcmurray/backup-to-s3 It’s written in python using the ubiquitous boto3 and …
So your Ubuntu server doesn’t want to upgrade MySQL using apt-get and fails with the following error? mysql_upgrade: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) while connecting to the MySQL server Upgrade process encountered error and will not continue. Thankfully the fix should be fairly easy to carry out. For some reason …
The French legislation that was signed off in May 2016 and is in effect as of Jan 1st 2017 will be something studied closely by most other countries in the next few years. Part of the law changes (which included other changes to allow employers to more easily dismiss staff) was to have companies define …
The time had come to switch this blog to HTTPS given the ease and cost ($0) of deploying certificates from LetsEncrypt. So that was easily done under Apache – create a new conf file for the SSL site in /etc/apache2/sites-available, and then update the old conf for the non-SSL site to redirect before requesting a new cert using …
Just finished reading this after a random find during a library visit. I’ve read at least one John Scalzi before and that was a relatively easy but good read. Lock In was a great read and touched on some great sci-fi topics that are close to becoming reality – “wet” impants to the human brain and …
I have a Digital Ocean server that I SSH into from my laptop for mainly development purposes. But I also want to do scheduled downloads of the server backups from a server at home. So I need to SSH from a new machine to my server with no user prompt. Easy, but it always prompts …
The internet has changed the world we live in dramatically in the last 10 years. This is a fact that no one would dispute. But many businesses are continuing to ignore some of the associated changes that this global connectivity has bought. No longer do the borders of countries matter to data, in that those …
Slightly behind with this post but I finally have a new release of Doc5 available for download. New features include, Full WYSIWYG editing and no more trying to get used to the markup. (Not that it was difficult but people are used to risch editors these days) Complete redesign of the UI. Bootstrap makes for …
As per the previous posts I’ve moved hosts over the last week and now I think everything is across. While having a quick look at the Google Web Developer Tools to check for errors I also see the following little chart indicating the time it takes Google to fetch a page from this sub-domain and …