thecweb.com

Author: cweb

  • Site is back up!

    Looking at the logs it’s been down since October 22, 2023. I’m not sure if that is when my fiber IP changed, or when the line from the fiber jack to the router in the basement broke. The line quite working right before I had to work from home, so I just put the wifi router directly into the fiber jack so I could work, and I just yesterday got around to fixing that. I ended up just replacing RJ45 connectors on both ends of the cable.

    After the box was back on the internet, I updated my current public IP with namecheap and started running updates on Ubuntu. I didn’t realize when you run ‘apt upgrade’ that it will move you to the latest LTS version, so I spent about half an hour figuring out why Apache would not start. Turns out one of the several warning messages I clicked through was telling me it was going to install PHP 8.1, and remove 7.6. Since I made sure to tell it not to update any of my config files, this caused Apache to crash when trying to start. I just had to disable the old module and enable the new one.

    So the site is back up but just a quick run through certbot and it’s secure again too!

    All this is in preparation for me to setup Apache Guacamole on the site. This should allow be to get around all the filtering at work so I can remote into my home computer and work on things I can’t on my work PC. My next post will probably be about setting that up. It i fairly complicated. No prebuilt apt packages.

  • Panda Express

    Man this place was awful. I didn’t expect much, but I was still disappointed. I got the mushroom chicken and pepper steak. Next time I’ll just go with the orange chicken, their standard.

  • Work

    I need get a new job. Working nights sucks ass. I can barely sleep.

  • Getting old

    I just got heart burn from a bag of flaming hot Cheetos. FML

  • The Site is Back

    I finally bought a new router to keep the site up. My old one kept breaking the firewall rule, so the sure had been offline for months. I bought an Asus this time. Wifi 6, whatever that is.

  • Alice In Borderland

    I just watched the first season of this. And I was a bit surprised. The first episode was reminded me of the old movie The Cube. It was a whole movie of just teams of people going from killer room to killer room. I’m not sure if the old movie started the idea or not, but it’s the first place I’ve seen it. All though, I’ve seen the tope in several other things. The specific titles escape me at the moment.

    I was able to watch this because now I’m working from home on Friday nights. 12 hours was plenty of time to watch an entire season. I guess I’ll do season two next week.

  • Site has been down

    I’ve been trying to figure out why my SSL cert wouldn’t renew with certbot. I haven’t put much effort into it until today. Turns out my router wasn’t actually forwarding ports, so the site was completely down. I of course could load it locally, and didn’t realize it wasn’t on the internet. lol. Simple fix, I had to delete the port forwarding entries and re-add them. I hope that doesn’t mean my router is getting too old, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

  • New job

    I’ve started at a USDA data center through a contracting company. Paying like 20k more than Cerner, but it is overnights.

    So far I’ve been working days while I wait on clearance to go through.

  • Donating platelets for the first time in forever.

    Nothing had changed here, though I don’t know why anything would.

  • Russian

    Russian

    No wonder we don’t understand each other. Damn fools got an n for a p, and a p for an r.

    Duolingo my dingo