Out of the blue SickRage did not start on my server and displayed “ImportError No module named helper.encoding”. Upon investigation I found that a bad update may have broken SickRage. How did I know it was broken in the first place? My recently setup Monit system monitoring software notified me … read more
While updating the new 2015 Amazon Fire TV, update fails with -network connection has been lost- message. This happened when I was first setting up the AFTV and again after my factory reset. This can be quite annoying as you cannot move forward to using your Fire TV until the … read more
First, let me explain the Varnish WordPress comments IP address problem. As many of you may know I have switched to VPS from Digital Ocean and currently run a LEMP stack with Varnish Cache. All was well until recently when I discovered that all WordPress comments IP address were 127.0.0.1. … read more
After moving my WordPress blog to Nginx on Digital Ocean, I have had to work through a few issues, one of it being Yoast SEO sitemap blank problem. Likes most bloggers I use Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin, which sort of eliminates the need for several other plugins for non-on-page SEO … read more
XBMC buffering issues can be an annoyance while trying to watch a video on your HTPC. The problem amplifies if the video is of HD quality or if your HTPC has less available resources. Raspberry Pi, with only 512 MB of RAM and modest CPU power is prone to slow … read more
While OpenELEC is an awesome media center OS for Raspberry Pi, it does come with one minor flaw: incorrect time. This post shows how to fix OpenELEC incorrect time on Raspberry Pi. If you have not yet tried OpenELEC then I strongly suggest you install OpenELEC on Raspberry Pi and … read more
Today, out of the blue I lost access to my blog: only a WordPress blank page appeared with only the word -error- displayed. I encountered a similar error few months back and somehow after research I fixed it. But I forgot how I fixed it. So this time when it … read more
This post describes how to remove duplicate meta descriptions and titles on multi-page WordPress posts. Paginating long posts into multiple pages with the nextpage tag in WordPress increases pageviews and we have already shown you how to add and style post page numbers in Genesis theme with and without plugins. … read more
Google Webmaster Tools provides major tools necessary to monitor your website or blog and fix any errors that may interfere with Google indexing your pages and your pages showing up in Google Search results. Recently, I started noticing the notorious Webmaster Tools Access Denied error. Some of the Feedburner related … read more
