Month: June 2020

Ever run into those situations where when you find out the cause you think that it was a senseless nightmare? That's what I get when I work on Windows (anything).  Today was one of those reminders.  I'd been given the task to figure out why Windows 10 was reporting a 1tb drive as 500gb.  This was on an Acer Aspire laptop.  Windows itself revealed no answers.  The internet was full of wanna be experts.  You know when they provide every different type of solution most of which are way off the mark and you have to wonder where they came up with the idea? I wound up taking out the drive because the Acer Aspire laptop wouldn't respond to F2 to bring up BIOS nor any other hotkey to bring…

Wordpress says you have to upgrade your insecure version of PHP 7.0.  PHP 7.4 is the current version. You have to add the repository, then update. Ubuntu: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get update Debian: sudo apt install apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list' sudo apt update Change to the php version. sudo update-alternatives --config php Enable the correct version in apache. sudo a2enmod php7.4 Disable the old version. sudo a2dismod php7.0 Then restart apache2. sudo systemctl restart apache2