Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
My home router doesn't handle IPv6, and for that matter, neither does my ISP, so I get a lot of IPv6 related garbage in my syslog and kern.log. To turn it off, you need to create a new file, rather than editing a system file, and then reload these settings. sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/95-disable-ipv6.conf #add the … Read more
OK, so maybe its not a complete secret, but after around 10 years of running WordPress I only just found out about it. Here it is. After you've logged in as admin, go to the following URL. i.e. type options.php into the URL of your site: Obviously you have to be logged in as admin. … Read more
So you forgot to pay your bill. It happens. PLDT used to set an automated phone call to call you once a day until you paid. Now they have something much more irritating, and something that feels borderline illegal. What they do is they hijack your internet connection. Every four or five page loads, they … Read more
Useful one to have appear in your inbox in the morning. Have just done this on a server, so I thought I'd put it here to remind myself. This works for debian and Ubuntu variants, which have the apt command (a meta-script for the apt-get ecosystem) In note form … Add the following text to … Read more
There are a lot of posts around telling you how to update mysql root password. "Simple!," they cry, "just start mysqld_safe, and use mysqladmin …" But wait, what's that? You don't HAVE mysqld_safe? Well the chances are, you've got one of these new fangled systemd systems, where everything is ass backwards.
Then you went and tried to run mysqld as root didn't you? That didn't work either. Read on …