Category: Technology

Every post that has something got to do with technology…whether it’s to do with computers, phone, the internet. It’ll be posted here

  • Protect & secure your Facebook account! [2FA]

    Protect & secure your Facebook account! [2FA]

    Previously, I wrote about how to protect your Instagram account. Here is how to do this on Facebook!

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  • Facebook’s ‘Page Transparency’ & How to know when to spot fake pages!

    Facebook’s ‘Page Transparency’ & How to know when to spot fake pages!

    Back in April of this year, to combat ‘Fake News’, Facebook introduced a new feature on all pages called “Page Transparency”.
    It allows everyone who vists the page the ability to see various metadata.

    Facebook’s “Page Transparency” box on Padraig Fahy Support

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  • Backup & Update WordPress to 5.0

    The following is a video guide on how you can back up your WordPress site with Blacknight and update it to 5.0

    Apologies if I am stumbling over my words a little bit in this video.

    If you have any further queries about this, please leave a comment on this post or tweet me @PadraigFahy

  • Chocobo unwell.

    Hmm, It would seem that the server that this site is sitting on (Dubbed: Chocobo) seems to be having some issues.

    It is in need of a update (which I might do after this blog post)

    I have been keeping my eye on the usage because Nagios is going absolutely crazy with it’s random messages (Seriously, it gets creepy at times 😛 )

    So, let’s hope me rejiggling it a bit, will make things work now!

    On other Chocobo-related news: This server has now been running for a whopping 701 days! :O

    Chocobo has been online for 701 days!

     

  • WordPress Issues currently on PadraigFahy.com

    So over the past few days I have been playing around with the new WordPress desktop program which requires you to have JetPack installed.

    So naturally enough, I installed JetPack and now anytime that I decide to remove to add a new post to the blog, I get a 504 Gateway Error from nginx.

    I disabled the plugin and I while I am not getting the error anymore, I am still having loading issues with the site…I did play about with the php.ini but I need to have a look at the plugins and see what I can adjust to resolve this issue.

    Will update when I have found a solution.

     

  • Login Looping Xubuntu 15.10

    Since last night, I have had a issue where I couldn’t boot into my Linux laptop which was running Xubuntu 15.10 due to a login loop where it was stuck as “[  OK  ] Started ACPI Event Daemon”

    I eventually found the fix which did resolve the issue for me.

    1. Make sure /var/lib/lightdm has been created.
      1. Also, make sure that is owned by lightdm:lightdm and have CHMOD 0750 permissions.
    2. At ~/ , do a ls -lah and check both .Xauthority and .ICEauthority and make sure they are owned by you. eg. chown padraig:padraig
    3. Throw a sudo reboot at it and then you should be able to boot into your Xubuntu system.

    This fix could (And would) probably work for other *buntu distros (Or even Debian distros in some cases)

    I hope this helps someone!

    (PS. I have to get code tags or something if I am going to be posting tutorials like this 😛 )