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Re: How to Deploy WooCommerce with One-Click Apps

wscott — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 06:48:35 -0000

I used this approach. It used the LinodeApps/woocommerce stackscript and I ended up having a bunch of problems getting everything working.

It used Debian 9 which ends up with php-7.0. This version gets flagged an insecure by WordPress. I ended up upgrading to Debian 10 to get php-7.3. Apache was configured on port 80 only and I used letsencrypt to get https, but that messed up the apache.conf. The default apache.conf had a number of issues that broke the rewrite mod and didn't allow loopback connections to work. So I ended up needing to totally redoing that according to instructions on wordpress.org.

Woocommerce is just a wordpress plugging, but probably better to use a more complete WordPress template and then add woocommerce.

Re: “Fauxcasts: Listen to audiobooks in a podcast app” | Andrew Heiss

wscott — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:59:05 -0000

Dropbox no longer allows you to use the Public folder as simple web hosting.

Re: SSD Caching under Linux

wscott — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 07:50:50 -0000

I have been using a bcache of a single 80G SSD over a mdadm raid with 3 2-TB drives formatted as ext4 for several years now. Works really well and even handled a disk failure and replacement.

Re: $10 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail

wscott — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 07:08:33 -0000

I read this article yesterday, and today Linode added a $5/mo plan and increased the diskspace in the $10/mo plan. Perfect.

Re: Goodbye BitTorrent Sync. Hello Syncthing.

wscott — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:24:50 -0000

Are you running syncthing-inotify? And if so you need to also making the rescan interval very long.

Re: Aldi Has a Very Impressive Barcode Strategy

wscott — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 02:17:58 -0000

The cashiers at Aldi's were even faster 20 years ago than they are today. At that time the cashier's had the prices of everything in the store memorized. Nothing on the box was labelled, but they would flip items into the cart at lightning speed with one hand while the other hand was entering prices. I understood that the cashiers were VERY well paid compared to other stores and so have very little turnover. Again it was a small store with a smaller number of items and things tended to use a limited number of prices.

Re: Npm package author revokes his packages, breaking tons of builds

wscott — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:30:24 -0000

We should be using something like Nixpkg (https://nixos.org/nix/) but using packages distributed on IPFS (https://ipfs.io/). This way anyone can publish a package, but the 'hosting' of this package is distributed and as long as someone is using it, then it still exists.

Re: Hosting a Website on IPFS

wscott — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:38:16 -0000

The Hacker News discussion on this post: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Re: Bluffton becomes Indiana's first gigabit city

wscott — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:41:05 -0000

If they had that in Columbia City, I would sign up immediately

Re: Build Your Own Solar Generator

wscott — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:09:10 -0000

The link to the PDF is broken. Looks cool.

Re: Come hang out with us for a chance to win an S4!

wscott — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:01:26 -0000

Any chance we could get the "google play editions" of the HTC One or Galaxy S4 phones? These have pure Android without all the fancy Samsung eye tracking and other crud. I am guessing no, because I only see GSM versions of those when I search.

Re: Where did Ting’s refurbished devices go?

wscott — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:53:10 -0000

To answer the questions about the promo code: Just call Ting when you are ready to purchase. The number is on the top of the website and a real person will answer quickly. Moreover than person will try really hard to make you happy. Ting takes customer service seriously.

-A very happy Ting user

Re: http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698

wscott — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:36:36 -0000

Mark mentions that he uses iSSH and if you checkout the webpage for that app (http://www.zinger-soft.com/... you will find mosh the next feature on their roadmap.

Re: http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698

wscott — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:02:06 -0000

High end laptop == 10.6 pounds.
Don't see that being used much. An Air or a Thinkpad X1 seems more likely to be useful.

BTW is Chrome for iOS any better?

Re: kindlefeeder.com - RSS and Atom Feed Subscriptions For Your Amazon Kindle

wscott — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:06:53 -0000

BTW, calibre does this for its RSS feeds. It is open source so you could look there.

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SSH

wscott — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:48:17 -0000

I now use sshuttle (http://github.com/apenwarr/... for all my ssh tunneling needs. It is WAY better and the resulting tunnel is faster because it doesn't use tcp over tcp.

I also created a 0install feed for it: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/489...

Re: Courgette binary compression

wscott — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:15:41 -0000

No one said anything about independent patches, these are all incremental patches. The binary diff stuff requires an exact matching baseline.

Re: Guitar Lessons? Anyone? Anyone? [UPDATE!]

wscott — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:25:59 -0000

Sounds like fun.