A Techie with Heart
Here are some of my travel plans – currently rather vague… Cooper Creek The Cooper Creek Recreation Area is an rustic camping area in the North Georgia Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. While not the best scenic vistas, there are few places where I have felt more connected to nature. Waking up next to a babbling mountain
There is a movement, both in the U.S. and abroad, of people who live in their vans. This is known as Van Life #VanLife. Some are adventurers. Some are unable to afford rent or purchase of a home. Some are living their best life. Some considered themselves homeless until they found their van as their
Too often, people build their vans to be very heavy. This ends up hurting gas mileage and very likely has a detrimental effect on reliability. It’s totally up to the individual builder on how they want to build their van. I’m trying to avoid criticizing individual choices, although I will in the end. Builder’s Goals
An expired domain name, purchased through WordPress.com, continued to work normally *after* expiration. I have never seen this before. Domain have never continued to work during the 30-day grace period when you could still renew. The first indication we got (other than the requisite, albeit overlooked, notification emails) was when a cyber-squatter (connected to and/or
The woman to who I am blessed to be married, S. Nyambura Kihato, is now offering therapy services as Uzima Perspectives, LLC As of April of 2021, Nyambura practices Trauma Therapy at Karuna Counseling in Decatur, GA Make an appointment with Nyambura. I am also hanging our a shingle of my own! After years for
While my day job is satisfying and challenging, some projects give a special sense of satisfaction. It was particularly satisfying to launch a new website for The Atlanta Inquirer. It is important to have all voices in the news these days. The heritage of this newspaper goes back 60 years – as can be seen
After upgrading to Linux Mint 19.3 and Krusader 2.7.0, I could not evoke Krusader Root Mode. It just stayed in a loop asking for my sudo password. The error mentioned the kdesu could not authenticate me. I tried making a symlink pointing kdesu to kdesudo – no help. Searching Synaptic (the real Ubuntu one, not
Scams evolve with other technology. Using a third-party site to log into another site lessens the number of passwords you need to remember, however this scam gives your Facebook log-in info to hackers and could fool all but the most sophisticated users. Ars Technica published the details of this new scam. This was noticed because
EZproxy has an internal SSL certificate management system that requires copy/paste into their admin panel. I dislike the process because it requires sending a private key over the ‘net – perhaps insecurely the first time! Since the free certificates from expire every 90 days, and are automatically renewed every 60 days (using the standard setup),
Had a new installation of EzProxy that was working fine until I updated nginx. Somewhere in the upgrade process, while dpkg was trying to set up nginx and/or open-iscsi, the following errors started insserv: warning: script ‘K00ezproxy’ missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script ‘ezproxy’ missing LSB tags and overrides [Solved] Edit /etc/init.d/ezproxy to include