This weblog Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sat, 02 May 2020 16:24:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Technical difficulties https://dfarq.homeip.net/technical-difficulties/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=technical-difficulties Sat, 02 May 2020 16:22:21 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=23533 In doing some routine maintenance today, one of my key plugins, Yoast SEO, started throwing error messages. Yoast issues can cause various other issues, such as new content not showing up on the front page, so this may be a

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]]> 23533 DROP DATABASE wordpress; https://dfarq.homeip.net/drop-database-wordpress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drop-database-wordpress Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:55:02 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6331 This week, I doubled back down in earnest to get my webserver running on the hardware I bought a year ago. After  getting Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on the box and playing together nice, I installed WordPress and got

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]]> 6331 Integrating WordPress 3.2 with Twitter https://dfarq.homeip.net/integrating-wordpress-3-2-with-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=integrating-wordpress-3-2-with-twitter Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:22:52 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3751 Rich P. tells me all the cool kids use Twitter now. And that some people, instead of using RSS feeds, want to get blog updates from a Twitter feed. I’m about four years late to that party, but I’m not

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]]> 3751 Top posts of 2010: A retrospective https://dfarq.homeip.net/top-posts-of-2010-a-retrospective/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-posts-of-2010-a-retrospective Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:52:19 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=2847 I don’t normally do this, but then again, I’ve never had these kinds of statistics at my disposal either. So I’m going to take a minute to look back at the most popular posts of 2010, and pontificate a little

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]]> 2847 Fixing my b0rken WordPress installation https://dfarq.homeip.net/fixing-my-b0rken-wordpress-installation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fixing-my-b0rken-wordpress-installation Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:46:47 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=2619 A little over a week ago, WordPress started acting weird. First, it just got dog slow. Then my site stats page started freezing until I scrolled down and then back up again. Then I started seeing a WordPress.com logon screen

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]]> 2619 Sorry about earlier https://dfarq.homeip.net/sorry-about-earlier/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sorry-about-earlier Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:18:20 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=2269 This site was down most of the day. The storms that hit the midwest today didn’t do a lot of damage in my neighborhood, but they did cause some power hiccups after I left for work, and my network didn’t

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]]> 2269 Tagged! https://dfarq.homeip.net/tagged/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagged https://dfarq.homeip.net/tagged/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:45:26 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=2133 I’ve only wanted tags for about 10 years. Tags are little keywords you can use to help categorize blog posts. And the first blog I ever saw use them used them liberally. You’d read a post, and at the bottom,

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/tagged/feed/ 1 2133 If Google sent you here instead of to what you were looking for… https://dfarq.homeip.net/if-google-sent-you-here-instead-of-to-what-you-were-looking-for/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-google-sent-you-here-instead-of-to-what-you-were-looking-for https://dfarq.homeip.net/if-google-sent-you-here-instead-of-to-what-you-were-looking-for/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 15:16:08 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=2047 Please type whatever you were looking for into the search bar in the upper right. I’ve just upgraded to new software, and Google hasn’t re-indexed the site, so my old links are broken. Thanks for visiting! Dave FarquharDavid Farquhar is

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/if-google-sent-you-here-instead-of-to-what-you-were-looking-for/feed/ 11 2047 And we have safely arrived in the 21st century. https://dfarq.homeip.net/and-we-have-safely-arrived-in-the-21st-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=and-we-have-safely-arrived-in-the-21st-century https://dfarq.homeip.net/and-we-have-safely-arrived-in-the-21st-century/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:11:29 +0000 http://192.168.103.3/?p=1919 It wasn’t the smoothest of transitions, but it went a whole lot better than it could have. I’ve moved the venerable Silicon Underground, with its nearly 1,800 posts spanning a little over a decade, to WordPress 3.0.1. This blog’s been

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/and-we-have-safely-arrived-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 3 1919 In case anyone\’s wondering why I don\’t run an open forum anymore… https://dfarq.homeip.net/in-case-anyones-wondering-why-i-dont-run-an-open-forum-anymore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-case-anyones-wondering-why-i-dont-run-an-open-forum-anymore https://dfarq.homeip.net/in-case-anyones-wondering-why-i-dont-run-an-open-forum-anymore/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:31:04 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1589 I think David Pogue sums up what's wrong with online etiquette pretty well.

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