So jill’s Personal Finance website https://frugalhoney.com may or may not have been hacked. I say ‘may have been’ because Server logs showed classic hack signs such as brute-forcing wp-login.php and wp-admin.php, the key wordpress files to try and access the dashboard. For a site that gets only less than 200 visits a day that’s suspicious. …
Here is an attempt to explain Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Maria regularly sends and receives letters to and from Juan. Sometimes they’re Statement of Accounts and sometimes it’s just a grocery list. Regardless its between Maria and Juan and no one else’s business. Unfortunately Zhang Wei for some reason wants to see them. So he’s …
Whether you are using Windows or a Apple computer, there’s a feature called Accounts. Accounts allow you to set up your computer so that another person can use it. That other person will have his own Desktop, his own wallpaper, his own Documents etc. as if it was his own computer, all protected by a …
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When installing Drupal 8, you may encounter this message:
In my case I was using the Entity Auto Term module, which issued a patch fixing a known issue. The patch i’m trying to apply is https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2018-09-28/no-duplicate-terms-2945343-5.patch and part of it looks like this: To apply it, you have to edit your composer.json located at your website root, pictured here via Filezilla FTP: I right …
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Every year small to large villages called barangays, villages or LGUs (Local Government Units) all over the Philippines issue annually renewed stickers to the public allowing entry into their villages. Tenants pay a regular fee while non – tenants are charged more for the privilege, a common practice for villages used as shortcuts for drivers …
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So as a government consultant I am subscribed to the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGeps), and I get an email whenever the keyword ‘consultant’ pops up on any requirement. A few days ago I was quite surprised when I got this:
After a few years working at different government agencies I’ve come up with a few ideas. Some I thought of myself, many from discussion with consultants like myself, some seen from abroad, etc. I’ll be writing at least one per week, starting with this one: Idea: Centralized Document Clearing House THE PROBLEM: Government agencies send …
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I like this ‘jargon free contract‘ I saw recently from Boingboing.net, which I copy here: You give me money, I’ll give you creative. I’ll start when the check clears. Time is money. More time is more money. I’ll listen to you. You listen to me. You tell me what you want, I’ll tell you what …
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My old WordPress site http://basketball.exchange.ph was actively maintained for five years until I lost interest. After a few years of lying mostly dormant the site developed errors and essentially ‘died’ as it was inaccessible. I wanted to reactivate it again. Fortunately I had not deleted the files and database from my shared server so making it ‘alive’ again …