I upgraded my local server’s PHP version to 5.6 recently (here’s how I did it) and all was well until I realised that PHP GD was missing (why won’t upgrades ever go smoothly for me???).
Introducing Anthony Johnis Zamore
May 7th, 2017So last year, I decided to “get” one of these things called children and after much stress, Anthony Johnis Zamore was born.
Installing PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04
May 4th, 2017Happy New Year peeps!!!. I know I know, it’s late but you know what they say: better late than never.
I was updating my Joomla version to 3.7 and I got a warning telling me that I should update my PHP version on the server. So I went straight to Google to figure out how to do it…and I got all sorts of tutorials that did not work.
Run WAMP Server as a System Service
November 25th, 2016As luck would have it, my computer crashed and I restored it but needed WAMP Server to run as a service (along with some other programs) and I decided to make this tutorial for those of you who wish to do the same.
How to Setup ReCaptcha in Joomla 3.4
November 10th, 2016One of my sites was being attacked by a damn spam bot so I decided that enough was enough! I use ReCaptcha for all my WordPress sites and deceided to use it for Joomla as well.
Install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04
September 21st, 2016I needed to convert a few videos to .mp4 format and I knew that FFmpeg would do it but unfortunately, Ubuntu 14.04 does not have FFmpeg installed by default. So…we have to install it. Yay!
How to enable use of .htaccess in Apache on Ubuntu?
September 10th, 2016I reinstalled my Ubuntu server and had to enable the use of .htaccess files again so I am making this short tutorial for those of you who may have to do the same.
Repair IMEI BLU Studio 5.5C
September 3rd, 2016A client brough me a BLU Studio 5.5C (D690U) which had no IMEI because some other person flashed it. I initially thought of re-flashing it but then decided to do some searching on the Internet and came across this article from http://www.blogtechtips.com/ (http://www.blogtechtips.com/2015/10/05/how-to-repair-imei-number-in-android/).
Asus Transformer Pad TF300T Unlock Bootloader
August 1st, 2016I got a TF300T which was not rooted and had a locked bootloader. I was using it fine but I wanted to unlock the bootloader in case I decide to root in the future. Unlocking the bootloader is quite simple, actually.
How to Install the Linux Dynamic Update Client on Ubuntu
July 14th, 2016Since those Digicel f***ers blocked port forwarding or put us behind a NAT, I have lost access to my computers via SSH and using the public IP so I installed NoIP’s DUC to try to gain access. By the way, it didn’t work but you can follow these steps if you are NOT on Digicel’s network.
Invalid Parent ID Error on Joomla 3
March 31st, 2016I was doing some routine work on one of my websites (adding articles and deleting expired ones) when I came across this “Invalid Parent ID” error when trying to save an article. The article was saved successfully but the error kept showing up.
Script to Backup All Directories in Web Root in Ubuntu 14.04
January 25th, 2016First of all, Happy New Year to each and everyone of you. I wish you success, good health and great sex in 2016.
Now with that out of the way, I wanted to write a script to backup all the directories in my web root on my Ubuntu 14.04 server because I accidentally sudo rm -rf /var/www/* but stopped the process before too much damage was done.