Author: Josh Sherman
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[FIXED] Repository ‘http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘stable’ to ‘oldstable’
Even though I haven’t upgraded from Debian 10 “Buster” to Debian 11 “Bullseye”, I’ve already been bitten by a bug. The bug showed up in one of my local Docker containers that is running Debian Upon starting the container, I run apt-get update and was faced with this nasty thing:…
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VPS Showdown – September 2021 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
September, the last month of summer (in the northern hemisphere at least) but not the end of comparing a few VPS providers. Didn’t see a lot happening this month side from Vultr starting a beta period for their Kubernetes offering in a few of their data centers. As always, I’ve…
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Remove unnecessary files in node_modules
As the meme goes, the object with the largest mass in our universe is the node_modules directory. Generally speaking, storage is cheap, and while an unkept set of dependencies can be quite messy (and often times a security hazard), the size of your node_modules directory tends to not be of…
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Multi-factor authentication (MFA/2FA) not working
Multi-factor authentication is an absolute must to help maintain the highest level of security on your accounts. There’s many ways to go about MFA/2FA from using an authenticator app to receiving a text message on your phone. Regardless of the method you choose, the day may come that your are…
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Debugging an AWS Lambda that stopped working
My wife and seed would agree that talking about AWS Lambdas are in my “big three” of things to not shut up about, along with fishing and professional wrestling. Regardless, I do love them so (both the Lambdas and the fam bam). As I’ve grown to use them more and…
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Fixing Nest error e73 – No power to Rc wire detected
It’s been heating up in Texas recently, even more so when I had discovered that our Nest unit was giving us grief about the “Rc wire” not being detected. This is an existing unit, not one that I recently installed, so I was skeptical that the wire wasn’t connected properly….
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VPS Showdown – August 2021 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
It’s that time again! Been extremely busy on my end, so it’s more of the same at the moment in terms of what’s covered. Something notable that I had missed last month is that UpCloud is now offering managed database hosting along with their VPS and other products (block and…
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How to kill a query on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Coming from MySQL / MariaDB, I was surprised that I couldn’t kill a query on an Amazon’s Relational Database Service or Amazon Aurora with the kill command. Fortunately, the functionality isn’t omitted, it’ just buried under some AWS RDS specific command. Before we go over that, let’s go over how…
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Setting an authorization header when using file_get_contents with PHP
Going through some of my old lists of blog post ideas this weekend. While it’s not something I’ve needed for a minute, it’s still something worth taking about. How to set an authorization header when using PHP’s wonderful file_get_contents() method. Similar to an old post of mine talking about specifying…
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How to push an empty git commit
We’ve all been there. We need to trigger something from a commit to a git repository, and instead of triggering the build directly, we end up tweaking something in a file, committing it, and pushing it. It’s usually just adding a blank line (and subsequently removing it, depending on where…