The Diary of a PhD Pursuing Digital Nomad
You are desperately trying to complete your AirBnB booking for your upcoming trip, but are stuck on the payment screen. Now what? Occasionally when you make bookings on AirBnB you may encounter the following error: “Unfortunately, a server error prevented your request from being completed. Airbnb may be undergoing maintenance or your connection may have … Read more
TrueCrypt, along with its successor VeraCrypt, are exceptional encryption tools that are readily accessible. These tools offer the ability to encrypt data on storage devices such as external hard drives and USB flash drives, ensuring its security even at rest. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to effectively recover your data by repairing any … Read more
If you hold a valid LearnDash license and you find yourself unable to activate LearnDash in WordPress, then your current host configuration may prevent the LearnDash plugin from calling home to its license activation servers. After keying in your license the LearnDash plugin will initiate outgoing HTTPS requests that are used to forward the activation … Read more
Unfortunately, at some point you may encounter the “UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY” on your Linux system. Dropping you into a console (command prompt) on boot time for you to solve the problem manually. Basically, your file system has crashed and needs repairing for your system to boot successfully. This demonstration uses the Ubuntu distribution. However, you can … Read more
Today I renewed my Let’s Encrypt certificates using certbot on my nginx webserver. However, I received SSL errors, and the error messages was: In Chrome: ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERRORIn Firefox: SSL_ERROR_RX_UNEXPECTED_NEW_SESSION_TICKET Recent updates seem to have made conflicts in the nginx configuration. And the solution is to simply delete or rename the file “default.conf” in the directory /etc/nginx/conf.d. … Read more
After successfully installing Nextcloud 13.0.4 on CentOS 7 running NGINX and PHP 7.2, I was unable to login with the admin account that was created during the installation. I entered the credentials and hit “Log in” and it looked like the Nextcloud page refreshed and redirected to http://x.x.x.x/login?redirect_url=/apps/files/. No error message was found in nextcloud.log, … Read more
I had some difficulties getting Barnyard2 to play with CentOS 7 when installing Snorby and Snort. Barnyard2 service stops shortly after I started it. First I thought it was related to SELinux, but then I checked the log file and found this: “ERROR database: ‘mysql’ support is not compiled into this build of snort ERROR: … Read more