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…
Category: Technology
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…
Healthy Biblical Position on Privacy and Security
Second revision: March 17, 2016 The other day I indicated to a Bible-believer friend that I would prefer to only communicate with this person (and everyone else) by means of Telegram or secured email, rather than SMS messaging or totally unsecured email. To my surprise, this person replied back that they were ‘unsure of their biblical position on privacy’. Being…
Is Gmail Safe to use ‘Just for Business’?
No. Google is *not* safe to use ‘just for business’, I confirmed clearly today. About seven or eight years ago when I moved my whole life over from proprietary operating systems to Ubuntu, I was still using services like Gmail, Google search engine, Twitter, and a few other ‘services’ like these every day within the Ubuntu environment. Thankfully, I had…
What does your Email say about you?
I love this post and I come back to it time and time again. However, it is now both out of date and also needs further commenting. First, though, go take a look and enjoy the original here: COOL CARTOON THAT EXPLAINS HOW YOUR EMAIL REPRESENTS YOU Here are my updates, and I’d love any extras or edits you could…
How to Install Telegram on Cyanogenmod
If you were following my other post this week, you’ll see that I’ve had to take a short trip away from ubuntu phone while a few kinks are ironed out. I had started down this journey thinking that I would just install Cyanogenmod and then download a few apps from google play and then kill the connection to the mothership.…
How to Flash Cyanogen Mod on Nexus 4 Using Ubuntu
If you ended up on my first tutorial showing how to get ‘android back’ I did post that too hastily and forgot that Cyanogen mod is a much, much safer version of android because it doesn’t connect to the mothership of Google. If you have been running Ubuntu on the Nexus 4 and been challenged and need a temporary solution…
How to Flash Back to Android from Ubuntu Phone
UPDATE: This tutorial below will flash you back under the nasty tracking eyes of Google/Alphabet. You will get the google play store and all the ‘fun’ but you will also get spied on and ultimately regret it. I have since updated my tutorial/solution to this: How to Flash Cyanogen Mod on Nexus 4 Using Ubuntu There is no play store…
How to Fix Owncloud Maintenance Mode Message Ubuntu Server
Did and upgrade to your Ubuntu packages and owncloud is mucked up? Same. So I blogged this because it happens all the time and I always forget how to do it quickly. Hope this helps you, too: Access your server via terminal (ssh in) move to your owncloud directory. Mine is default and if yours is too copying and pasting…