Sizing images correctly for mobile devices in WordPress just needs the following in the image properties.  For example, add the following: max-width: 100%; height: auto; to images such as these: Ensuring you also have the following set to size the page appropriately for mobile devices: <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″> in your header files or main […]

Can’t connect to a wireless network in windows or otherwise?  This issue came up on the DD WRT firmware enabled routers I have.  It’s possible that either FORWARDED ICMP traffic is blocked or an explicit rule on an interface is missing.  Here is a list of rules you can try, or the equivalent on your […]

Getting this in Virtual Studio Code ( aka VSCode, vscode )? Failed to connect to the remote extension host server (Error: WebSocket close with status code 1006) and Could not fetch remote environment Clear the running remote agent (also called server) and let VScode reconnect: # ps -ef|grep -Ei vscode tom@mds+ 5364 1 0 12:48 […]

Users not able to post on WordPress even when logged in.  This code no longer works, because with passage of time, roughtly eh … (cough) … 12 years or so it’s about time to get off my a.. and update it.   Basically, the following line and user_ID no longer works to detect if you’re logged […]

mysqld [Note] Access denied for user ‘zabbix’@’mysql03.nix.mds.xyz’ (using password: YES) If you get this error: Mar 17 23:56:14 mysql01 mysqld: 2019-03-18T03:56:14.176594Z 4770 [Note] Access denied for user ‘zabbix’@’mysql03.nix.mds.xyz’ (using password: YES) Verify your password in the following two files: [root@linsrvj01 zabbix]# cat /etc/zabbix/web/zabbix.conf.php <?php // Zabbix GUI configuration file. global $DB; $DB[‘TYPE’]     = […]

If you get the above, do the following ( Substitute LV for a real disk such as /dev/sdb in case the device has no Logical Volumes ) : Mount the latest ISO with the latest xfsprogs package installed that matches the OS vendor you’ve used on the failed system.  We don’t want to fix a […]

Unable to ping NLB Gateway from outside the NLB subnet or different subnets.  Getting timeouts when attempting to do so? # nc -vz 192.168.0.224 Ncat: Version 7.50 ( https://nmap.org/ncat ) Ncat: Connection timed out. While host is on a subnet external to the NLB subnet? # ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue […]

Getting this? -bash-4.2$ ping 192.168.0.224 PING 192.168.0.224 (192.168.0.224) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.224: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=0.860 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.224: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=1.22 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 192.168.0.224: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=0.622 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.224: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=0.872 ms (DUP!) Apparently this can cause issues on different subnets as […]

First, let’s get some given’s, like the WAN interface: # echo $(get_wanface) vlan2 Or this way: # nvram show 2>&1|grep -Ei wan_ifname= wan_ifname=vlan2 Stop WAN or LAN ip link set $(get_wanface) down To bring things back up: ip link set $(get_wanface) up Command for WAN in this case: udhcpc -i vlan2 -p /var/run/udhcpc.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc […]