Tales of my (mis)Adventures in IT
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Overcoming the WordPress’ white screen of death
Yesterday’s incident with La Prensa Nicaragua reminded me that I wanted to write about this 6 months ago. So I took some time and wrote this up. I really hope this helps someone. If you have ever played with WordPress, plugins and themes a bit, it is very likely that you have faced the dreadful…
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La Prensa is back and it’s new
Yup, the issues from yesterday were due to a change of providers. DOAP is no longer managing the infrastructure and web services for them. They are now running it themselves. What happened? After 12 months of several issues with their provider, a slow website with a lot of issues, poor UI/UX, they decided to change.…
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La Prensa Nicaragua is Down!
Yes! Many users have reported constant errors and the horrible horrible WordPress White Screen of Death. Some background about La Prensa La Prensa is one of the biggest newspaper in the Nicaragua. It runs on Worpdress. Previously to running on WordPress it ran on a custom CMS It runs on AWS with EC2 instances and RDS…
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Stream Media from Debian to Xbox One
Hi there, if you have been reading my blog, you probably read my article about Streaming from Mac OS X to a Roku Streaming Device. Well now I am back for another one, but this time is from my Debian 8.2 (Jessie) to my XBOX One. Requirements before we start The setup is pretty simple, but…
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WordPress and admin-ajax.php
In past articles I have shared with you what I consider the Top 5 WordPress Plugins for Shared Hosting but I must admit that I forgot about this one. It was only after assisting customers from Site5 that I remembered that I had forgotten to add this important plugin as it causes severe damage sometimes. What is the…
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WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
This is for all of you WordPress users. Recently a lot of vulnerabilities were discovered which allow hackers and script kiddies to have access to your website if you are running outdated versions of all the following plugins: Jetpack WordPress SEO Google Analytics by Yoast All In one SEO Gravity Forms Multiple Plugins from Easy…
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Paypal finally opens in Nicaragua
Paypal lands in Nicaragua Yes, finally!!! Well sort off! Paypal arrived to Nicaragua two weeks ago, it launched quietly but it was here. My friends from Pragmaz.com and Danfer Habed with whom I am working on a personal project that will launch soon, started making some tests with it. I was able to integrate it using…
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Claro Nicaragua DNS system sucks!
Ok Folks, over a month ago I was finally able to get wired cable internet in my new house thanks to Claro Nicaragua. I grabbed a Triple play: Digital Cable, Land Line and Cable Internet. I was really hesitant and went back and forth with the sales folks as due to my own experience and…
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5 MUST HAVE Plugins for WordPress on Shared Hosting plans
I’m back 🙂 This time I have over 7 months working for Site5.com. I have been able to interact with probably more than 1 thousand customers and helped them on their issues. Most of them have no HTML or Security expertise and are regular folks like you and me trying to get on the digital…
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My favorite Hacker Movies
I know I did a post some time ago about My 3 most hated IT related movies. Well now its the counter part. This are my 2 favorite IT related & Hacker Movies. Hackers 2: Takedown [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ru6piNym9U] IMDB profile This movie is about one of my heroes, Kevin Mitnick. It tells the story of…
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