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The Value of Checking on Your Custom Scripts Often

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I love scripting.  I mean, back in the 90s, after my brother taught me HTML 4, I took my knowledge further and started to program in PHP, but since leaving the field to become a Linux Systems Admin, my coding skills started to favor Python.  But I rarely ever publish scripts of my own, and the reason for that is maintenance.

Now there are some times, depending on the complexity of your script, that you can get away without updating it for several years.  I mean my original backup script was in use for over 5 years and didn’t need modifying, and even when I did modify it, it wasn’t because it had broken, but because I wanted to reorganize how the files were saved offsite. …

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Backup Script Recode – But Using AI

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In 2021 I shared my backup script that I was using to back up my web server.  At the time I was using VestaCP, man a lot has changed since then.  For one, I switched over to HestiaCP which was a great decision, but this post isn’t about that.  The old script was a quick little script I punched out that had some flaws in the organization of the files.

The original idea was to back up everything daily, which is still the idea.  You see, HestiaCP, like VestaCP, only keeps a limited amount of backups based on the package you assigned the account. …

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Its 2024, and I have gone full circle…

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First and foremost, Happy New Year 2024.

I am writing this very late on January 1st, 2024, so it will probably be posted on January 2nd by the time I finish writing it.

As many of my readers know, on January 1st, 2012, I switched provinces.  I moved from Ontario (at the time Cornwall, Ontario) to Montreal Island (Dorval, Quebec), however after 4352 Days on the Island (11 Years, 11 Months, as I moved December 1st, 2023) I have returned home.  I had some amazing experiences in Montreal (and surrounding areas), made a lot of new friends, and landed one of the best jobs I have ever had, but it was time to leave, and I regret noting.…

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My Facebook account got hacked!

It’s about half past midnight here on the island, and I just finished getting my hacked account back into my possession with a brand new password and 2FA enabled.  But I wanted to tell you about my horrific journey and how to recover a hacked account, and of course, ways to make it more secure once you have the account back.

What Happened?

My take starts just under 2 weeks ago.  June 9th, 2023.  I was asleep at my buddy’s house back in my homeland in Ontario Canada, and while I was sleeping, someone in a far-off land was up to some mischief. …

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[FIX] mysql_secure_installation not setting the root password

I recently helped my buddy move from Centos 7 to Ubuntu 18.04.  In the process, we noticed one of his custom websites was a little messed up.  It was throwing a lot of errors in regards to mysqli_connect getting a boolean value instead of the query.  We found out this was due to a difference between MariaDB (Centos 7) and plain old MySQL (Ubuntu).  So we fixed this by removing MySQL and installing MariaDB.  However, there was something else wrong.  No user could log in to the root account on MySQL using a password, they would get the old access denied for root@localhost error. …

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Spotify – Gotta love it

It is amazing how much technology has changed over the last few decades.  When I was growing up in the 80’s I remember listening to my brother’s Metallica collection on cassette, then in my high school years, listening to 90’s grunge on Compact Disc (CDs), then in college listening to MP3s on a digital music player (all-be-it mostly downloaded off of peer sharing services like Napster and them LimeWire) and now, I listen to most of my music via a streaming service. Now the great thing about using streaming services, in this case Spotify (not sponsored), if you can pretty much find almost every song you have ever listened to.…

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I moved my web server from VestaCP to HestiaCP and here is why.

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I recently took on the task of updating my webserver. The decision to do this was mainly because my web server’s operating system was nearing end of life. For those who know, CentOS 7 is the last of it’s kind, a stable enterprise OS based off of Redhat. With full release updates ending at the end of 2020 and security updates till 2024, I decided to jump ship… to Ubuntu.

Wait… What?… Ubuntu? Yes… Ubuntu (Ick, I hate myself for even saying it…)

Now do not get me wrong, Ubuntu is great, for those who are hobbyists. But for stability and enterprise applications, RedHat has been the leading OS, and hence CentOS (Except the Stream version) was also stable.…

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Starting a New Chapter – Fall 2021

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Come January 1st, 2022, just 3 months away, I will be celebrating my 10th year here on the Island.  I cannot believe how fast time has flown.  To think I moved here the first of the year 2012 due to a job opportunity at a, then, friend’s UPS Store.  I moved my way since them, working at the Atwater Library and Computer Centre as the Computer Centre Manager, then on to Netelligent where I worked as a L1 Linux Server Admin.  Then moved on to my current job at Ubisoft as a Level 1 Linux Systems Administrator (Now Level 2).  And for the past four and half years I have grown so much professionally. …

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What have I been up to?

It has been a long time since I have made a personal post on here, but after finally finishing a task that has taken me 2 years (Thanks Covid19), I figured I would make a post about my adventure.

The featured image should give it away… Maybe not… if you are not from Quebec, you might mistake this for a regular censored photo of a Drivers License, you would be partially correct.  So for those from my home province, and others outside of La Belle Province, I will explain this little gem, and the journey I took to get it which started in early 2019.…

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Why I left Facebook.

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It’s been a reoccurring theme in my head for years.  The Internet, Humanity’s greatest feat, and greatest downfall.  It brought the world together while simultaneously pushing us all apart.  With the rise of Facebook and other social media platforms in the early part of the 21st century (2000-2010) it seemed to be a dream, getting reconnected with long lost friends from yester-year.  But in all essence, Facebook is just that, a dream, a façade.  What you see on Facebook, isn’t real, its the cherry picked moments of everyone’s lives, you don’t see the truth, the “behind the scenes” of what really goes on in a person’s life. …

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