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Why I removed Acronis True Image 2014
I have just removed Acronis true image 2014 from my laptop and breathed a sigh of relief. Backup software should make you feel that your computer is safer than it was before, Acronis did not. — Update 2016-01-03 read about my new approach to backup — –update 6 June 2014– I am now using…
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How to install a SSL certificate on a Bitnami WordPress server
In a previous post I described how to enforce SSL in this post I show how to replace the self-signed certificate with one from a Certificate Authority such as StartSLL. The standard configuration of Bitnami servers is that the Apache configuration is overwritten by an application configuration. The Bitnami server is provided with a self-signed…
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How to enforce SSL on a Bitnami WordPress server
Bitnami servers come with Apache and WordPress SSL enabled with a self signed certificate. I will address replacing this certificate in a later post. As I understand it Bitnami configures the AWS cloud image so that the application configuration overwrites the Apache configuration. This is described in their documentation. Bitnami documentation for Apache The relevant…
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Free SSL Certificates from StartSSL
— update 2017-03-20 StartSSL was bought by a bad boy and has been banned, don’t use them now– Whenever I have to replace a server certificate I curse because I have to pay so much for so little. The whole industry is an conspiracy against the small businessman. In the past I have purchased certificates…
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The best Acronis backup scheme
— Update 2016-01-03 read about my new approach to backup — Acronis is a full featured backup application. Because it can do almost anything it is very difficult to configure. As is often the case, the first thing to work out is what you want to accomplish. Scenario I have a laptop and travel for…
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Mobile contacts are a key mobile application battleground
This is a very interesting article about the importance of mobile phone contacts. Here is an excerpt but it is worth reading the whole article.
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How to recover from hard drive failure
Your hard drive is about to fail, it might be next week, next month or next year. Mine failed last week. Summary of this article This article tells you how to recover from a hard drive failure. It presents my particular issue as an illustration. To smooth recovery when this happens to you I recommend…
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Windows Home Server PC Restore does not work
The short version Last week my laptop crashed and I needed to restore the hard disk. I make a backup everyday automatically using my Windows Home Server (version 1). I took the PC restore disc and booted the laptop and although the restore would start it would never complete. Windows Home Server version 1 is…
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A great post about tagging WordPress
Tom Ewer says, in a nutshell, if categories are the table of contents for your blog, tags represent the index. The Right Way to Use Categories and Tags in WordPress to Boost SEO This is an excellent article that is well worth reading.
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A new theme for this WordPress blog
I am learning WordPress development and configuration. As part of this I have updated the theme on this blog to the very elegant Chateaux theme which has larger fonts and more white space than the TwentyTen theme I was using before. Another improvement is I have added all my posts to the correct category so…
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Dr James Bayley 