Edit: I stumbled on this nice site recently: willmyphonework.net, which allows you to check compatibility of a lot of phones in various countries. It confirmed my iPhone 6S also works in Japan. And now for something slightly different (still tech related), I went to Japan this summer (btw, I wouldn’t recommend that: go in spring […]
Author: GHDpro
Keep WordPress & phpMyAdmin up-to-date with a single command II
A few years ago I wrote about keeping WordPress & phpMyAdmin up-to-date with a single command. While those methods still work it is time to make a few changes (and revive this blog while I’m at it, it has been too long). First off, using Subversion to track stable versions might keep WordPress itself up-to-date […]
Stop Spam from Google Groups
I’ve been receiving spam for a while that somehow my email provider’s spam filters wouldn’t or couldn’t filter. I had noticed they were somehow send through Google Groups, but couldn’t quite figure out how. Well it turns out that anyone is apparently free to start a group for their own use and then “invite” anyone […]
Mac OS X Time Machine backup on a Debian server
December 2015: I just wanted to note that the solution below stopped working for me after a while. However I recently purchased a Synology NAS and configuring as a Time Machine backup destination is fairly easy. I just got a MacBook Air and had already read about how you can setup your own network based […]
Two factor authentication: just do it!
This post on Wired editor’s Mat Honan’s blog had me worried. While there are plenty of things you could blame him from doing wrong (mainly not having backups even though the OS he was using makes this extremely easy) the thought of somebody being able to just wipe everything is frightening. While to my knowledge […]