Month: September 2019

So, I am very strict on what comes in and goes out of my network.  Most of it is a privacy thing.  Without your privacy you have nothing.  Bear that in mind. I have pfsense set up and it uses something called pfblockerng-dev (the development version of the package) and within that is something called DNSBL (or Domain Name System Block List).  It works like the pihole except it is much more extensive.  Unfortunately it can get in the way as I fix customer computers and those need access to some parts of the Internet that I normally have blocked.  The machines generally are here for a short time and are here for cleaning and other types of repairs. With pfsense I set up a couple VLANs to keep the…

There's a message when you execute the updater on nextcloud to bring you to version 16 of nextcloud.  It dumps out some dorky message about php7.0 but doesn't actually tell you unless  you click the link it dumps.  If you do it takes you to some page where they claim php7.0 is insecure and they give you a timeframe where you need to complete an upgrade from something like 7.0 to 7.2 or 7.3 and if you don't then it's your fault for running an insecure version of PHP 7.0 The problem is that updating from 7.0 to some other version is more than just updating to 7.2 or 7.3.  You have all sorts of dependencies that also need to be updated. Even though 7.2 or 7.3 gets installed properly…

Nextcloud though a good concept has issues that always seem to crop up during the update process.  Now there are quite a few things that are problems here. Stuck on an old version and it won't let you update via the interface running the occ command to update says you are up to date if you run the ../updater/pharupdater it fails saying that it can't delete old resources -- like that matters one freaking bit as far as completing the update goes.  Tell me where they are and I'll delete them afterwards. insufficient feedback during the update and error messages are unclear and seemingly meant only for the developers. expecting that their lack of documentation on updater errors is ok and that you should pay them.  That's just bad business.…