On Sunday May 29 at about 11 AM, Buddy will be doing maintenance on the BBUS Blog Systems to be sure that we have a working backup for V1. This will also give me a chance to be sure we have all the plugins mirrored in both setups. I estimate that the Maintenance Window will be about 1-1.5 hours. Buddy System Admin BBUS
One wrong click could get you Windows 10 — whether you want it or not By Matt Weinberger 14 hours ago Microsoft’s aggressive campaign to get users to download and install the new Windows 10 operating system appears to be accelerating. Users on Windows 7 and 8.1 are getting pop-up windows, announcing that “Windows 10 is a Recommended Update for this PC,” alongside a time when it plans to do…
BBUS WordPress and DATABASE BACKUPS: UPDATE: (5/23/2016 @11:03): Buddy has completed the backup of the WordPress Blogs V1 and V2. He has also taken a Complete Database Backup of all System Databases. This is the first time we have taken Database Backups since Cardinal went online in late February 2016. All Databases have been backed up, and are archived for future use or in case of system issues. V1 of the blog has also…
Good Afternoon All: Just a quick update to let everyone know that as it stands now, SSH and SFTP seems to work well, without any problems, and as such, I have updated the status 0f these services to GREEN. I have also enabled the user directories for web pages in Apache 2, and have restarted the web server. For Now, we will be in a testing mode until we can…
UPCOMING MAINTENANCE: BBUS Backups will be scheduled for the following Dates: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 (Beginning at 09:00 EDT) -Partial Backup: ======================== /var/www/html (full directory) /home (full directory) /home2 (full directory) /etc (full directory) BBUS Blog V2 (/var/www/html/blog) BBUS Blog V1 (/Var/www/html/blogold) XML Backup of posts and comments for both systems MySQL databases WordPress Updates to Plugins DropBox Full backup of WordPress directories ========================================= Wednesday, May 27, 2016 (Beginning at…
(UPDATE: (4/19/2016 @15:16): I have done a few updates to the system. I had to install a couple of desktop environments, and I had to edit a couple files. Then, I proceeded to update our compilers and some Perl Modules that were not installed inside webmin. Right Now, I have successfully connected to cardinal’s VNC server on Display 9. I will also attempt to connect a root desktop as well,…
Check your Web browser is running the latest version of Flash. And do it now. Adobe has issued a global alert to computer users around the world warning of a serious security flaw that leaves machines open to ransomware attacks. The company is urging all users to update to the most recent version of the software, which it rolled out Thursday, as soon as possible. Ransomware locks a user out of their machine…
SERVICE ALERT: BBUS BLOG REGISTRATIONS This weekend, (4/3/16) I received an email from a user that I thought was a spammer, that signed up for an account for the blogging system. the domain was mail.ru – in response to this, I have disabled new user registrations for blog services for the short term, until I can get a domain-level block tool to get rid of spamming registrations. (mail.ru is…
Good Afternoon Everyone: I just wanted to let EVERYONE know: When viewing BBUS Sites, if you do NOT use Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Safari, etc, and instead use Internet Explorer Versions 7-11, that the theme we use for the sites will look TERRIBLE – PLEASE use **ANYTHING** other then Internet Explorer. Just for Your Information: Microsoft Edge (Shipping with Windows 8/8.1/10) will ALSO make this site look TERRIBLE, and you may not like the…