Uncomplicating Technology
Uncomplicating Technology
There are a huge number of WordPress hosting providers out there. Even WordPress does hosting on wordpress.com. There are pros and cons to using these hosting providers vs hosting it yourself. I will leave it up to you as to whether or not you should pay someone else to host your WordPress site, or if …
WordPress is a very popular platform for running websites. I have read reports of WordPress hosting up to 27% of websites. With WordPress powering so much of the web, you might be asking yourself how you can design your website to run on wordpress. There are many WordPress hosting sites out there that you …
This article describes how to install and use CURL on Windows. Curl is a free command line utility used for transferring files using various protocols. Most commonly it is used for transferring files over HTTP(S). cURL comes natively installed on Unix based operating systems such as MacOS and Linux. But windows is left out. Now …
In this article, I will describe how to install and use the Chocolatey Package Manager on Windows. But first, what is Chocolatey? To get the best explanation, it is best to quote the makers of chocolatey. “Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized …
Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) are exploits in CPU architecture allowing attakers access to protected memory they should not have access to. Spectre effects all CPU vendors, while Meltdown is specific to Intel chips. More details below. Lucky for you, there are patches available to remediate or workaround the issue. The downside is …
Ensuring your Puppet Agent is installed on all machines in your environment can be a challenging task. Today I will share a tip on how you can ensure that the puppet agent us automatically deployed to all of your new virtual machines. Explanation When you deploy a VMWare template, you have the option to create …
Adding Network printers to a print server can be cumbersome when doing it through the GUI. For that reason, you may want to attempt to do it via a CLI interface. In this article I describe the Powershell commands for adding a TCP port for a TCP printer. As well as how to bulk create …
WordPress can break for a variety of reasons. Generally when it breaks, you will have one of a few symptoms. You will get an HTTP error, you will get a blank page, or there will be some broken functionality. The goal of this article is to troubleshoot the HTTP Error 500 you may see. HTTP …
The windows Update CLI commands are useful for troubleshooting Windows Update errors. And they are helpful when you need to automate the windows update tasks. In newer versions of windows, the WUAUCLT command has been deprecated and replaced with the usoclient. In this article we have included the options and syntax for using wuault, usoclient, …