The InterSect

Category: Documentation

  • Linux Submission Part 2

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    I just fired off another submission to the Linux kernel at the time of this post. Hopefully it’ll get through. I’m not very hopeful though since the device I sent a patch for is not very popular, maybe due to it being an under-powered system, in the first place. The patch I posted is a…

  • Flippy Flappy Potty

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    Recently, my toilet’s flapper failed. Bought a replacement and replaced it myself but the pressure was too much that it was bending the flush lever. Bought another one that was different and that was functioning well. I found that the first one I bought had the chain attached to the flapper nearer the center of…

  • Spring Cleaning

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    While updating my WFV device, I suddenly had the urge to completely format my main workstation after several years of continuous Arch usage. It’s become so much easier now after archinstall has matured. Before I had to re-set the user password since for some reason what it saves is corrupted so I had to boot…

  • BackupExec Cleanup

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    I just finished uninstalling and installing the latest version of Veritas’ BackupExec. I don’t get the hate about it. I had no problem with it getting to recognize the existing tape data after an Inventory and Catalog operation. Restoration works as well. And that is after I deleted EVERYTHING. The only thing I had to…

  • WordPress Security

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    After reviewing logs, I’ve decided to block one of the most taken advantage of vectors in hacking my WordPress blog. Namely, WordPress’ xmlrpc.php file. Now, since I’m already using a reverse proxy, and I don’t really like going the plugin route for such a simple block, I just added the ff. code in my Nginx…