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When Ghost upgrade dies on "ERROR alter table `products_benefits`"

There is a bit of a surprise in upgrading your Ubuntu to 20.04.2 , because that will include upgrading your MySQL to mysql  Ver

By 17 Jul 2021

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Cleaning Twitter by unfollowing, to reset your follows/following flow.

Sometimes a Twitter cleanse is necessary, as the Twitter app has some odd bugs in it and acts up from time to time. It'll suddenly

By Dabitch 7 Apr 2021

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Moving off S3 with Drupal 7

It seemed a great idea to use S3, but after receiving a DMCA takedown request from them regarding a film I stored there, I knew

By Dabitch 22 Sep 2020

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Fixing that pesky "Parameter must be an array" error in PhPMyAdmin

I don't know who needs to hear this... Oh well, I do, because I forget things that I've done and this here blog is as

By Dabitch 21 Sep 2020

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How do you get emojis accepted in Drupal 7? ? ? ?

Quite a long time ago, as Kidsleepy [https://adland.tv/adgrunts/kidsleepy] was writing an article on Adland, he added an embedded tweet that contained

By Dabitch 27 Apr 2020

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kdevtmpfsi & kinsing - the malware miner that will eat your CPU

How embarrassing. I noticed that things were moving slowly on my server today

By Dabitch 10 Apr 2020

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Deleting Twitter favourites/likes with one click

I have been in the habit for years now, to delete my Twitter favourites or likes, because I 'heart' them for lots of reasons, most of which have nothing to do with actually liking the tweet.

By Dabitch 12 Dec 2019

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Aluma Social Welfare - putting homeless people on the digital map

The Fan Club wanted people to notice the homeless in Malmö. With $0 budget. While people were busy playing gowalla and 4square on their phones.

By Dabitch 1 Jul 2016

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Website as hidden service: how do?

Was talking to a pal about ssh as hidden service. “It’s simple” he said, and practically dared me to do it. But I didn’t really want ssh, I thought let's do http instead because Adland. Oh okay. So you want to try it too? Lets go.

By Dabitch 6 Jan 2016

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Permission denied (publickey) on AWS instance Ubuntu

So, you were minding your own business chmodding things left and right while logged in to your Ubuntu instance the other day

By Dabitch 5 Jan 2016

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When your mysql server has crashed and won't restart, it probably needs repair

But egads, how do you repair it when you can't start it??

By Dabitch 10 Apr 2015

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When you crashed your EBS instance, restarted, and now you can’t connect via SSH

Lets say you did something kinda not-so-smart and you rebooted your EBS (Elastic Block Store) instance, and for some reason it restarts, but won’t let you in via SSH, or worse… It simply will not restart. Ruh-roh!

By Dabitch 2 Jun 2013

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Gowalla-Flashmob - I just went around the world to propose to Terri Carlson.

This lady on the left just received a digital proposal from me. Wth? Yes, I'm straight, but Terri Carlson says she will marry for health insurance, which might seem like pretty drastic measures, but as she explains it's her only option.

By Dabitch 20 Feb 2010

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No, there are no proxies involved in "hacking" gowalla

Why I'm pretty sure my little fly around the world stunt will get me banned is shown in the GetSatifaction forums here, where people are upset about folk who check-in where they are not (some even dislike "drive-by check-ins)

By Dabitch 19 Feb 2010

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Confessions of a Gowalla "hacker"

As you know, it all started because of that "pleaserobme" page. I Dashed around 4square to prove a point, and then did the same excersize in Gowalla (which I play), to not play favorites with either service.

By Dabitch 18 Feb 2010