Never paint a room after watching reruns of Dragnet #HighGlossGreen #WhatHaveIDone

I have come to the conclusion that half my family has no idea what they're talking about. And the other half is okay with that. #BlarneyFife

My ability to deal with spiders ensures continued marital bliss #ArachnaBoy #BeFreeLittleCreepy

A little something to save frustration when working with rsync and public/private keys. Be sure to pass the key you'd like to use (if not using default values):

ssh -i /root/.ssh/key_file_you_want_to_use

And if you're using cPanel, you might consider using

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cpuwatch 1.5

to limit CPU usage when running something that might take a while (like rsync-ing your backups to external locations). The 1.5 parameter above checks to make sure the server load is below that value before continuing.

This mainly helps me since I will inevitably forget this and need to know where to look. Leaving these breadcrumbs around makes a certain kind of sense.

I find myself watching reruns of Emergency! and counting the HIPAA violations. #IgnoranceNoExcuse #ItsTheLaw

#TheWalkingDead is just a metaphor for bad parenting #PutALeashOnCarl #YouKilledDale

There are better ways to block brute force attacks against Wordpress (mod_security, carpet bombing), but if your host provider goes the .htaccess route then here are a couple of caveats to be mindful of.

First, pay attention to the order of statements. This

Order allow,deny
Allow from XX.XXX.XXX.X
Deny from all

won't work like you expect. You need to put the Allow statement at the end. In addition, there can be no space between

allow,deny

or again it will fail to work.

Using .htaccess can mitigate some small attacks, but it can quickly be overwhelmed so don't expect miracles. Sometimes you have to ride it out or employ other more drastic solutions (Special Forces, anthrax).

Pittsburgh is the jean short capitol of the world. #Jorts