Author: A Social Animal

Detecting if page is SSL in PHP – or – PHP SSL or NOT

In much earlier versions of PHP, it was easy to through a quick and dirty piece of code together and not worry about the php warnings – my first SSL-or-NOT detection was this simple: if ($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] != “on”) { $proto…

W3 Total Cache – removing it without trashing your site

Last updated on September 9th, 2013 at 01:53 pmWe had had cause to switch from a great caching plugin for WordPress, so another great cache option… the cache we’ve moved a few sites FROM – is W3 Total Cache –…

Facebook privacy concerns, then Facebook home launches to more privacy concerns…

I posted a link on facebook this week – it was an article from antivirus vendor Sophos on facebook privacy… Here is the link – Sophos Facebook Privacy Article The reason for the link was the question I see most…

VolSnap errors in your disk monitor

Last updated on September 9th, 2013 at 01:53 pmI installed a disk monitor – a program that checks my hard drives for hardware errors – it was reporting back low importance “Volsnap Error 33” – searching the internet for ways…

Approaching blame station…

Has a nice tune and hits the nail on the head when it comes to our POTUS – he won’t take the blame for anything… there is always someone else to blame…

WordPress comment spam – clearing out the stuff..

Last updated on September 9th, 2013 at 01:54 pmFirstly – this “fix” will not work half as well if you did NOT install Askimet and configure it properly – you *did* do that – right? If not – do go…

Chloe comes home

Chloe came home today Your browser does not support the video tag

TrixBox 2.6 Updates failing – libevent and memcached – can you fix them? Should you? NO – leave them the heck alone!!

Last updated on May 14th, 2020 at 01:00 pmRunning yum on an old trixbox yielded problems – it just couldn’t get past a dependency error… Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies –> Running transaction check –> Processing Dependency: libevent-1.1a.so.1 for…

The rudest bitch I have ever seen

Last updated on June 29th, 2012 at 08:39 amOut for a bite to eat and this lady without a handicapped placard parks *between* two handicapped parking spaces effectively blocking both.. If you know this rude bitch – have a word…

Someone posted this picture of Putin and Obama…

and said… “Caption this…” someone else came up with this … I thought it amusing… can you come up with a better caption? (go on.. give it a try…)