For the past few weeks, I noticed microfreezes or microstutters in games. Gameplay would “halt” for maybe half a second, then resume normally. This affected multiple games, so I knew it was a problem with my PC. I checked everything I could – deinstalled applications, made sure nothing “weird” ran in the background, checked the […]
WordPress: Site not Secure despite SSL Certificate
I’ve recently migrated all my sites to use SSL (I know, it’s long overdue) and despite the SSL-Certificates being valid and working, Chrome and Firefox would show my sites as “not secure”. (No padlock icon.) After some digging, I discovered that WordPress really doesn’t play very nicely with SSL. Lots of themes, plugins, etc will […]
Blogger/Blogspot can’t detect WordPress RSS feed
So I just had an interesting problem where a Blogger/Blogspot blog I help maintain couldn’t detect the RSS feed of a WordPress blog I help maintain. The error message was “Could not detect a feed for this URL”. It turns out the problem was two-fold. First: One of the files in the WordPress theme added […]
Scrivener: Installation freezes up
I was testing the writing software Scrivener (for Windows), and ran into an issue. The installer would just freeze up completely on start. It would run, eat CPU time, and show up in the task list, but ultimately never showed any GUI. Once it randomly worked, the application Scrivener itself had the same problem. I then […]
WordPress Images Not Showing
Another odd problem I had when migrating a WordPress blog to a new server is that some images would not display. It wasn’t that no image were showing; only some did not display. I have not found the root cause, but a solution. It turns out that something happened to the thumbnails, i.e. resized versions […]
WordPress Redirect Loop
I’m currently in the process of migrating WordPress to a new server, and I made a somewhat silly mistake. Basically, after setting up my virtualhost, wordpress, etc I ran into a redirect loop, where the site would always redirect from the actual name of my blog (“example.com”) to a signup page, and the signup page […]
YouTube: Playback Stops with Spinning Loading Circle
For a couple of weeks I had a problem where YouTube playback stopped, and the video player would only display a spinning circle.It turns out that this is a bug with the video player when Hardware Acceleration is enabled in Chrome (and possibly other browsers). To turn off hardware acceleration, go to Menu –> Settings […]
Deploying an RDSH Server on Windows in a Workgroup
This came up today, and Ryan Mangan has a guide on deploying an RDSH 2012 R2 server in a workgroup. Thanks Ryan!
Skyrim: Wrye Bash “Wrye Bash could not find a game to manage. Please use -o command line argument to specify the game path”
After an update of Skyrim Special Edition, I got the following error message attempting to run Wrye Bash: Wrye Bash could not find a game to manage. Please use -o command line argument to specify the game path The solution was to run the game’s launcher – The update had removed the Skyrim SE settings. […]
eJabberd “Cannot read schema”
Trying to start ejabberd I got errors such as these: 2017-09-01 00:35:06.928 [error] <0.37.0> CRASH REPORT Process <0.37.0> with 0 neighbours exited with reason: {aborted,{“Cannot read schema”,”/var/lib/ejabberd/schema.DAT”,{error,{file_error,”/var/lib/ejabberd/schema.DAT”,eacces}}}} in application_master:init/4 line 133 Turns out I made a very simple mistake; I had attempted to start eJabebrd with “systemctl start ejabberd”. However, ejabberd brings its own control […]