I often spend countless hours pouring through server logs. If I think there’s a possible application issue I’ll be sifting through system and application logs. If there’s a connectivity issue I may be digging through Apache logs. Either way, without the proper tools it can be a tedious job. Oh heck, who am I kidding? It’s tedious regardless.
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Month: March 2016
Spoiled Pi
I find it a bit bemusing that I’d find myself fixing one of my several Raspberry Pi’s today, on National Pi Day. I can say that I was hoping that instead of making repairs to the filesystem I’d be playing with my new Pi3. Alas, ordering from the UK apparently involves carrier pigions and over 10 days later I’m still waiting.
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SSL with Let’s Encrypt
I’ve been wanting to include SSL with my websites for some time but didn’t want to necessarily go with the generic cert provided by my hosting provider. Many months ago my curiosity was piqued when I was listening to Steve Gibson on his Security Now podcast talking about a new, free Certificate Authority called Let’s Encrypt.
TRIM the Fat
I haven’t had much time to play around with the laptop since swapping the HDD for SSD. So last night I finally made time to finish the installation.