A Techie with Heart
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
The woman to who I am blessed to be married, S. Nyambura Kihato, is now listed on Therapy for Black Girls. She practices Trauma Therapy at Petrichor in Duluth, GA I am also hanging our a shingle of my own! After years for being enthralled with genealogy, I am starting my own genealogy coaching
This is a test, to see what might happen if I make a fixed link of a broken link on another site…?? So, on The Peoples Church of Chicago’s history page, there is a broken link, “Learn more about Preston Bradley here!” that apparent had a link to the staging site (here). I was able
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
For years, I have enjoyed having my Sprint cell phone integrated with Google Voice. While not perfect, it did allow me to do a lot of neat things, such as send and receive text messages from my desktop (Ubuntu) or laptop (ChromeOS) computers. I also got my voicemail transcribed (albeit imperfectly) and call history available
My latest labor of love for/with Rev. Duncan Teague
I have received three spam emails in recent days, with people offering to sell me the “.com” version of a “.net” domain name that I already own. This is not so unusual. Ever since domain names became a “thing”, people have been speculatively buying them to resell at a profit. This is known as “cybersquatting“.