Have you ever wanted to copy or scan something large or unwieldy like a book, but when you put it on the glass and pushed Start, it just sat there saying to “Please Set Document on ADF” or some other similar message telling you to put it in the Automatic Document Feeder? The other day that happened to me, and a few quick searches on the internet didn’t help, nor did the manual, which simply said that if you want to copy something with the Document Glass, you simply have to set it there and hit Copy. That doesn’t always work, and here’s why: Read more
How Work Email Can Make Your Personal Email Totally Inaccessible
Take it from me: When a site asks for a backup email address to use for security reasons, NEVER give them your work email!
I learned this the hard way when I tried logging in to an old Hotmail.com (Outlook.com) account and it suddenly started asking if I’d requested a security info change. I hadn’t requested a change, but whether I said I did or not, Microsoft was too concerned about my security to let me log in to my 18 year old account anymore. Read more
Is Your Site’s .htaccess File Being Used to Its Potential?
Every web site should have a file called .htaccess at the root folder for the domain. You can leave it blank, but why do that, when there’s so much good stuff to be done with it? Over the last year or so I’ve spent a lot of time researching the latest, best ways to secure & optimize web sites, as well as redirect visitors in both VPS & Shared environments, and I’ve compiled a few of my favorite .htaccess tricks here in one place, which you’ll hopefully find as useful as I would have before I spent hours researching & testing it all! Read more
How to Fix a “Bad Interpreter” Error in a Linux Shell Script
If you opened & saved a shell script file in Windows, this will usually cause it to no longer run in Linux. Instead, you see an error like this:
^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
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