Lastpass is a great tool for keeping users secure, but it is not free across mobile and desktop platforms. With a little work, KeePass can be installed and configured to use the same password data as LastPass. You will need…
Long-time users of Office often need to copy Excel data into Word and vice versa. There are often errors, though, as Word likes to convert spreadsheets into tables that often do not fit the document’s formatting or size. Instead of…
When I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.06, my cron jobs stopped running, apparently due to bad syntax. What used to be OK: 0/5 (run every 5 minutes) What needed to be changed: */5 So here are some resources for…
I’m a big fan of the masonry/grid style layout of Pinterest, and I wanted to bring that look to my own websites. I started with DW Wallpress, which has a very nice layout. It’s not a full-width theme, though, limiting…
Upgrading between Ubuntu LTS releases can be a nightmare. Even with proper backups, a lot of software and configurations change, and hunting down settings that have broken is extremely time consuming. I suppose that’s why experts say it’s easier to…
Note: Hideyoshi Toyotomi is one of the most famous Japanese historical figures. He was the Taiko, who conquered and reigned over much of Japan in a period after Oda Nobunaga and before Tokugawa Ieyasu, the most famous Japanese Shogun (military…
I talked about how to use PiVPN to set up an OpenVPN server on a Raspberry Pi at home previously, here and here. The next step for me was to use CloudFlare as a DNS server, instead of signing up…
The last few days, I’ve been working on a vpn server for my home network. It’s so that my family all over the world can see the pictures of my son, which are hosted on a local server. However, I don’t…
I’m currently working on a project where I set up a Raspberry Pi to host a VPN server so that I can let my extended family view some private pictures. I previously had a PritUNL server running on Digital Ocean…
I’ve been playing around with Facebook Logins (Developer Apps) so that I can get social logins to work with WordPress. There have been a few problems with it so far: Facebook tells me there is an OAuth error, but it…