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[update: 2020-05-20] There does seem to be a conflict with Let’s Encrypt certbot. You’ll need to manually run updates. I’ll update once I figure it out, how to do it more automated. Looks like possible race condition for the ghost, and then the SSL… but since you’re defining them by macro’s it’s not so bad.…

Having trying to debug without xdebug felt like my hands were being tied behind my back. Took a while, but my friend Bart was able to help me get this up and running, after lots of trouble shooting. The way it seems, api-platform sets docker up in distinct containers: client db admin php api cache-proxy…

I was looking around, and couldn’t find anything.   Lots of people on home-depot felt that these things were not the greatest. Problems that people ran into, where reusing the old tubes.  These are meant for a complete system.  It’s color coded for ease. I was using the 1/4″ tubing so that it’ll fit my…

Objective: Allow Ubuntu to start BTSync on reboot.   Server create an EC2 instance, with appropriate storage space. Ubuntu LTS 64bit (currently 14.04) download the BTSync client http://www.bittorrent.com/sync The 64bit linux version. dump the btsync.conf ./btsync –dump-sample-config > btsync.conf edit the btsyn.conf for your settings. sudo su create /etc/init.d/btsync file See below chmod 755 /etc/init.d/btsync update-rc.d btsync…

Things of importance Family photos/videos Documents scanned docs license/registration information for software Everything else.     How to backup, rule of 3-2-1 3 – (three) copies of everything of importance. 2 – (two) media types at least.  Remember floppies? Remember Zip disks? Beta tapes… yeah… 1 – (one) off site copy.  Home burns down… you’re…

The plastic T-connectors broke over the winter.  Not very hardy.  Use the internal ones with hose clamps. The solenoids kept up, so far.   Lost the code to the automated system.   GPIO pin 7 – Far East solenoid – hanging plants. GPIO pin 8 – One West of Pin 7 solenoid – walk way…

Some people love it.  Some people hate it. To get rid of new car smell… Febreze your car.  Just got these from home depot ($6.00 CDN + tax).  New car smell, by the next morning, gone/masked.  Two things: it smells nice (if you like that scent), and it’s getting rid/masking the new car smell. Still…

Someone cracked my site, and started running a litecoin cpu miner on my server. I didn’t know how to remove them, thought I patched up the system. If you found out your site is hacked: Calm down Back up the system Diagnose what happened. Log files, etc… google it. Wipe it clean, and start fresh.…

I was getting “Unable to contact YouTube”. I believe my current version as of writing is 1.0.4. This is how I fixed it. I change the DNS settings on the PS3, to point to 8.8.4.4, and 8.8.8.8 (google’s DNS servers). After this change, the youtube app worked just fine. I gave my PS3 a static…