fighting the lack of good ideas
Gee. Thanks, Active Directory. This is one of the more useless error messages you can get when trying to programmatically access AD. Feel free to Google (or DuckDuckGo, or Bing, or whomever) that error message. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Your eyes bleeding, and gray matter leaking from your ears yet? No? Then you obviously didn’t…
Today, I am formally announcing a brand-new service / website for secure password generation. Go visit password.cf Get yourself random passwords of commonly-required lengths and complexities*. Password Varieties: 4 of 4 upper & lower alphanumeric lower alphanumeric Lengths generated: 12, 16, & 24 characters Visit the GitHub project page .. .. if you want to…
After running my new server for a while, I was noticing an unusually-high level of bogus email arriving in my inbox – mail that was being spoofed to look like it was coming from myself (to myself). After a great deal of research, I learned there is a component of the DNS specification that allows…
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I rely on MagpieRSS to run one of my websites. (If you'd like to see the basic code for the site, see my GitHub profile.) One of the drawbacks to Magpie, and dynamic websites in general, is they can be bottlenecked by external sources – in the case of Magpie, those sources are the myriad…
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I’m sure folks have tried to explain this to me before, but it wasn’t until today that it finally clicked – using .ssh/config will save you a world of hurt when managing various systems from a Linux host (I imagine it works on other platforms, too – but I’ve only started using it on CentOS)….
As promised last time, I now have a page dedicated to the WordPress plugins I use. Check it out, here.
Like my list of used Chrome Extensions, I’m building a list of recommended WordPress plugins. But until I get it done, I have to give some pretty big props to PrettyPress. It’s a plugin that lets you edit in Visual, Text, and Markdown – the markup format of sites like reddit, GitHub,, GitLab, and the…
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