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Computing / Greetings from Chrome OS Flex
« on: June 22, 2022, 02:40:06 am »
So Google has now released an "official" Chrome OS that can be installed on PCs. There was an unofficial version called Cloudready but Chrome OS Flex is actually from Google. I don't see a Dual Boot options when installing so I am running from USB Stick on a Dell Intel i5.

Looking forward to testing it as a daily. I do love Chromebooks.

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Site News / Let's Encrypt and Wordpress and SMF
« on: July 29, 2018, 01:18:11 am »
The whole site is now running SSL. I followed this guide by digital ocean:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-let-s-encrypt-with-nginx-server-blocks-on-ubuntu-16-04

I was still getting an insecure warning in chrome but after using Chrome's inspector I found that it didnt like that all the attachments in wordpress were still using http. It gets redirected but it still didn like it.

Velvet URL Blues to the rescue:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/
I must've used it once before since it was already installed but deactivated. Had it replace http with https and fixed the errors.

Then, this forum broke! All I had to do was run the repair_settings.php to update the URL to https. Here is a neat trick. I have the repair_settings.php file sitting in my dropbox. I SSH into my server and grab it with wget. Works like a charm every time!

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Site News / HTTP Error when uploading images to wordpress
« on: July 27, 2018, 07:13:12 pm »
I use an NGINX web server on my Ubuntu server and I kept getting HTTP Error when uploading images.

These links helped me fix it:
https://wordimpress.com/wordpress-nginx-http-error-on-image-uploader-fix/#comment-57740
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-on-image-uploader-1/

I had to edit:
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/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
and add
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client_max_body_size 100m;
to the http{} section.

I reloaded nginx with
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sudo systemctl reload nginx
and the error went away.

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Site News / Re: Greetings from Amazon Web Services
« on: July 26, 2018, 06:16:53 pm »
the mailer should be working now. if you forgot your parseword you can get an email about it. It will probably go to your spam. I'll see about fixing that. If you're not getting it, email me digisal@gmail

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Site News / Greetings from Amazon Web Services
« on: July 26, 2018, 05:20:39 pm »
So, almost a year ago I moved my site/blog/forums to Google Cloud Engine, see this post because my host powweb.com was getting pricey. I had 300$ credit with Google so that's where I went. I used up all that money and the hosting was going to be even more expensive so I signed up for Amazon's free tier on AWS. All my sites and this forum are now here. I never use this forum, it is just an archive of how things used to be. Maybe I'll post what I learned during the migration. Or maybe blog it? I dunno what to do any more lol

my sites hosted on aws now are:
www.digisal.com
www.digisal.com/smf
www.petitebaker.com

I also moved one site over to a free host to see how that goes.
www.salsholsters.com
That is hosted on Gwiddle:
https://host.gwiddlefoundation.org.uk/

Thoughts?

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Gaming / Removed all Games
« on: November 22, 2017, 01:35:56 pm »
Since I migrated servers, and since the forum was an old version. It was easier to do a fresh install without any plugins/games.

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TV / Re: Jennifers - Back to the Future I&II
« on: November 21, 2017, 02:22:09 pm »
I recently learned there was two martys!!


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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Re: There will be no mercy here.
« on: November 21, 2017, 02:17:10 pm »
How's that ford holding up? lol I recently moved this board to a new server so reading up on old posts.

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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Re: Still wondering...
« on: November 21, 2017, 02:16:27 pm »
Hey Weave! I recently this forum over to a new server. Reading up on old posts. How you doing?

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Site News / Greetings from Google Clound Engine
« on: August 15, 2017, 07:13:09 pm »
So i've been hosting this forum on my site/blog on www.powweb.com since about 2001/2002. It's getting too expensive! I managed to get a 300$ credit from Google Cloud Engine and I have been hosting a few sites there these past two months. So I figured i'd make the move of my personal stuff over here.

I dont get tons of traffic so it should hold up.

Let me know if anyone needs help with Google Cloud Engine and hosting sites!


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Computing / Re: Just touching base.
« on: June 25, 2014, 12:41:27 am »
Good good

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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Re: Still wondering...
« on: October 28, 2012, 01:10:27 am »
Hey Weave!

I'm still here but hardly ever log on. Luckily I setup my Google Reader to check for new posts here a few years ago so I was able to see you post. I spend most of my time online on Google Plus. Lots of geekery there. Should be able to see me here www.digisal.com/+

I'm a big Android geek. Have lots of Android devices in the house and running Ubuntu Linux on several computers. I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi mini computer and was playing with that for awhile as a media player but it couldn't handle all I wanted it to do. I need to revisit that. So I went back to ps3mediaserver on an Ubuntu desktop to stream movies and TV to my ps3.

I am writing this from an Android Nexus 7 so Greetings from a Nexus 7!

I got married this past February 8 and we have a pet Barseet Hound named Fred. :)

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Yatta Yatta Yatta / Re: Just wondering...
« on: November 29, 2011, 11:21:03 pm »
I live!

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Computing / Greetings from Motorola Xoom
« on: May 11, 2011, 09:04:56 pm »
Haven't done a post like this in a good while. I just got this thing and let me tell you it is really heavy. :)

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Site News / ReCaptcha to Thrwart the Spammers
« on: September 18, 2010, 12:30:48 am »
Every now and then I would get a bunch of new members and they would post porn all over the place, so i started make the registration process harder. When that didnt stop them I finally set it so i had to manually activate a member. So every now and then I would get emails from spammers wanting to join

Well it finally got real bad. My phone was about to bust with all the emails coming in!

Did a little searching in the SMF Forums and it turns out there is a ReCaptcha plugin available. The install had a little hitch. It wasnt pasting  some code before the last ?> in the Modifications.english.php file so when i would go to turn on the feature the words were not there. Just blank boxes. Im using a custom theme so at first i went to make sure it worked in the default theme and then came back to the custom theme and modified its version of the modifications.english.php

All good now.

See if the spammers stop.


BTW

ReCaptcha is google owned now and they are doing cool things with it.The words you try to guess are actually words that it has scanned from Googles book scanning projects. So every time you enter a captcha you are helping google with its OCR.

nifty!

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