Check this out. Just so cool. The hipsters should be all over this, I’m thinking. I like the idea of being able to add your own creativity to something electronic. This is the missing ingredient for our generation. We need to go back to the days when there was a ‘radio shack’ and dad and kid worked together on something…
Category: Technology
Are You a Victim of Abusive and Addictive Technology?
An article was forwarded to me this week by someone I know who believes strongly in the importance of ethical technology. He is heavily involved in the Ubuntu project and we all share a desire to see a paradigm shift in the role of technology in our lives from that of a harmful consumable to a helpful benefit. If you…
Do All Tech Writers Suffer from Fear and Creative Paralysis?
Today I was reading a recent article on Forbes website by a supposed ‘contributor’ named Federico Guerrini. Forbes, as you may know, is a popular place for people to go to try to get ‘informed’. His article followed perfectly a kind of template that these ‘tech writers’ for popular media use when discussing Ubuntu. The format, and you may have…
SIP VOIP Clients for Ubuntu for PBX for Business
So you have a business and you also want to build that business on Ubuntu. You have this annoying need for the old school ‘phone’ and maybe even the older-school ‘fax’. Your team is all over the place and you want it to appear as if you are a big, professional organization. The answer is simple – Voice Over Internet…
How to Back Up SuiteCRM using Ubuntu
I discovered SuiteCRM by means of searching through my web host’s cpanel softaculous thing – that thing that allows one click installs of ‘apps’ for your server. Over time, I became a heavy believer in and user of SuiteCRM. Eventually, I installed an instance for my company on my shared host and the company started using it more and more.…
Facebook is Evil.
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…
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…
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…