Dear Friend, Facebook is evil. There. Said it. Now here is an actual article written by a real journalist who eloquently expands on the ‘why’ and even provides some practical solutions. Although he’s writing to other journalists, there is nothing stopping any of you non-journalists from taking similar action. I, however, would go one step further than Mr. Gillmor: I…
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Making Your Word Press Site Secure with SSL for Free
Well, it has been quite a journey of learning and it has been quite good. Green Geeks, a big American website hosting company upset myself and a few other customers about their unwillingness to support the latest and best free and open encryption service, Let’s Encrypt. They wanted to sell their SSL certificates instead. The mentality is quite different from…
How to Do Let’s Encrypt in Cpanel with Shared Hosting
Did Green Geeks (www.greengeeks.com) not want to help you get Let’s Encrypt working in your Cpanel even though it works in cpanel? You aren’t alone. But we can take matter into our own hands, you know. The tutorial I’m going to share is awesome. It’s pretty much what I based everything on and of course my experience of just making…
How to Make Self Signed SSL Certificate Work in CPanel
Tutorial Assumptions you have a website domain you have shared hosting using cPanel you are using a computer running Ubuntu This isn’t a perfect solution if you have a public facing website, but if you have a private website for yourself, your friends, your business, etc, this will be ‘better than nothing’ and at least give you encryption for your…
How to Make Joshua 13-21 Hyper Exciting
Joshua 13-21 is the part of the Bible where God divides the land to the 12 tribes. I have read this many times and it’s a little… boring. The Word of God ‘boring’??? Sin! Repent! No. Some parts of the Word of God are boring. Of course they are “exciting because it’s the Word of God and God is speaking…
What is Ubuntu: Quick, Technical Summary
Today a friend got mad at me. He barely can even call me his friend it seems! He is upset at my lack of key understanding, and so he should be. It is kind of funny that we allow things to control our lives and not even understand the very basic stuff about how they work. It would be like…
How to Remove or Delete the Tone for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R
This is part of a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Delete or Remove the Tone for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R Important note: if you wait more than 9 seconds between any step below it will automatically go back to home screen and you have to start again, so work those…
How to Set the Tone for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R
This is part of a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Set the Tone for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R Important note: if you wait more than 9 seconds between any step below it will automatically go back to home screen and you have to start again, so work those fingers, baby!…
How to Set the Plus/Minus Offset Duplex Setting for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R
This is part of a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Set the Plus/Minus (+/-) Offset Duplex for Repeater Use in Baofeng UV-5R Important note: if you wait more than 9 seconds between any step below it will automatically go back to home screen and you have to start again, so work…
How to Quickly Manually Program a Frequency in Baofeng UV-5R
This will be a series of posts that hopefully will save people a bunch of time. How to Simply Manually Punch in a Frequency push VFO/MR orange button to make sure it’s in ‘frequency mode’, not in ‘channel mode’. If you have the voice feature on (on by default) the girl will tell you which mode you are in. …