Tips and Tricks

A word to the wise about ransomware

So as all good stories go “No kidding there I was….” The FSD Penguins had been scrambling all morning to try and get the internet up and running only to find out that Missoula had a near city wide internet outage. Then the call that any support person dreads. “What do you know about Bitcoins?” Here are some steps that worked out well in this case your mileage might vary.

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Fixing the WordPress Media Upload 'HTTP Error' Problem

After having spent many hours searching how to fix this problem of uploading an image (likely large) and only getting a message of HTTP Error the FSD Web Penguin finally figured it out. The solution was dead simple too. Mileage may vary based on your hosting service. All of the references pointed to some known ImageMagick issue with WP. Finally we looked in to our hosting provider after having tried all the .

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The Forest Projection and Planning System and Taper

As of late The FSD Tech Penguin has received many questions on the topic of taper and The Forest Projection and Planning system (FPS). This is not an insignificant topic as FPS is somewhat unique in how it determines taper. This post will serve as a quick discussion of what FSD understands about the taper system in FPS and may not be 100% accurate.

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Forest Projection and Planning System (FPS) on WINE

The time has come to try and branch out some. So we here at FSD chained out IT penguin to a computer this week with a few tasks to do. One of those tasks requires some serious computing power. So the work around was to leverage all the computer cores around the nest to crank out some numbers.the real problem was to do that would have meant a minimum of 16 virtual machines plus cranking up a few extra machines.

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Upgrading ownCloud 6 to 7

In this post, we will cover changing from SQLite3 to MySQL and updating files. So nothing good comes from surfing the web. The FSD Web Penguin was made aware of the latest version of ownCloud version 7. Here is the process that was finally developed to avoid a few pitfalls. Do this AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!! Lucked out here and had several servers and started on the test server not caring if it was destroyed.

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Android: 'Type the password for credential storage.'

The Android penguin in the office came across this the other day and did some research. This is what they found out… We have several Android devices around the office and the Penguins love them. They just work. It is always nice to have technology working for you instead of you working for technology. The Problem: We were off site and needed to access the secure Penguin Nest VPN.

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