Steve Jenkins

I’ve been noticing some wonkiness with the admin area of our WordPress blog at CheatCodes.com EXTRA!. Through some experimentation, I noticed that all of the issues went away if I put CloudFlare into Development Mode. This, however, isn’t a long-term fix, so I decided to create a CloudFlare Page Rule for […]

Fixing WordPress Admin Issues with CloudFlare Page Rules

This entry was posted in Reference Technology and tagged cache CloudFlare Page Rule WordPress on May 7, 2012 by Steve Jenkins

This is one of those blog posts that’s almost 100% for my own benefit, since twice a year I have to fumble around with my phone system trying to remember how to adjust the clock to and from Daylight Savings Time. Of course, this would be easier if I knew […]

How to Adjust the Clock on a Panasonic Hybrid Phone ...

This entry was posted in Reference Technology and tagged adjust clock daylight savings time hybrid Panasonic phone phone system programming time on March 12, 2012 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4252 days ago)

As you may be aware from one of my previous posts, I decided to ditch both of my analog phone alarm companies in favor of digital monitoring using my Envisalink 2DS adapter which connects my DSC alarm panels to my in-home networks and, along with a host of other features, […]

How to Disable Phone Options on a DSC Alarm Panel ...

This entry was posted in Product Reviews Reference Technology and tagged 2DS alarm disable telephone DSC Envisalink Eyez-On panel on March 6, 2012 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4986 days ago)

Man – this post saved my bacon today: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/rebooting-magic-way Was able to reboot a CentOS box with what appears to be a failing (failed?) file system. We had backups, but we’re evacuating the server now. 🙂

How to Reboot with a Bash Input/Output Error

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged bash error Input/Output Linux reboot on February 14, 2012 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5007 days ago)

Here’s a copy of an email I just sent (on Feb 11, 2012) to the customer service email address and my salesperson at Bedroom Furniture Discounts, from whom my wife and I recently purchased new bedroom furniture. They were fantastic to work with on the sales side, but I think […]

Bedroom Furniture Discounts & Exel Direct’s “White Glove” Delivery Service

This entry was posted in Product Reviews Rants and Raves and tagged AICO Bedroom Furniture Discounts Exel Exel Direct Michael Amini Furniture Villa Valencia on February 11, 2012 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4986 days ago)

Locked House — This is somewhat of a different blog post for me, as I’m starting it before I even know what’s going to be in it. Maybe everything will go smoothly and this will be a boring story of how I made a couple phone calls and quickly and easily cancelled two […]

A Tale of Two Alarm Monitoring Cancellation Requests: Fire Protection ...

This entry was posted in Product Reviews Rants and Raves and tagged alarm alarm monitoring cancel Fire Protection Inc Fire Protection Inc Seattle FPI FPI Seattle monitoring Mountain West Security Mountain West Security Utah MWS on December 20, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4146 days ago)

Just in time for the holidays, CheatCodes.com has launched a mobile-optimized version of their video game cheats website. As with the mobile versions of many other popular sites (such as Facebook and Google), you can access the mobile version of the website by putting an “m” in front of the address: http://m.cheatcodes.com/ […]

CheatCodes.com Goes Mobile!

This entry was posted in Personal Technology and tagged cheatcodes CheatCodes.com cheats codes mobile on December 2, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5081 days ago)

As part of our preparations for winter, my wife gently reminded me last week that she’s been asking me to fix the gas fireplaces in the house for months. But as a geek’s geek, I can’t just fix a fireplace, I have to upgrade a fireplace! We have three gas […]

Review: Skytech SKY-5310 Fireplace Remote Control

This entry was posted in Home Theater & Automation Product Reviews Technology and tagged 5310 fireplace fireplace remote gas remote remote control Skytech thermostat on November 8, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4799 days ago)

I often say there are only two types of data: data that is backed up, and data that is waiting to be lost. Even if you’re the most contentious hax0r who always backs up your data, if your backups are stored in the same physical location as the source data, […]

How to Back Up a Linux Server to Amazon S3 ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged Amazon Amazon backup Amazon S3 AutoMYSQLBackup backup backup to s3 CentOS Duplicity Fedora Linux off-site RHEL S3 s3 backup server on November 5, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4816 days ago)

The Remington Wingmaster 870 is the quintessential American shotgun. There are many other renowned shotgun makers out there, and many other shotguns that have hosts of fancy features, but like an old-timer I met at a shooting range one time told me: “Some guns just feel right like an old pair […]

How to Field Strip a Remington Wingmaster 870 Shotgun

This entry was posted in Guns Reference and tagged 870 assemble clean disassemble field strip Remington Remington 870 shotgun take apart takedown video Wingmaster on October 27, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3903 days ago)

I’ve written a number of posts about the Ecobee Smart Thermostat since installing my first one in 2010. Since then, I’ve received a number of comments and emails asking if I knew of any discussion forums for Ecobee users. I didn’t, so I decided to launch my own using Google […]

Ecobee Discussion Forum for Owners, Installers, and Enthusiasts

This entry was posted in Home Theater & Automation Technology and tagged discussion discussion forum ecobee forum support tech support user forum user group on October 24, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 4046 days ago)

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2011-2012 Jenkins Family Foundation Scholarships at Brigham Young University: Joshua Dance – Information Systems Justin Eddy – Accounting Joe Hilton – Masters of Business Administration Mauricio Molina – Business Management Aaron Robison – Business Strategy Abram Skidmore – Masters of Accountancy Nathan Woobury – […]

2011-2012 Jenkins Family Foundation Scholarship Recipients

This entry was posted in Personal and tagged byu scholarships on October 7, 2011 by Steve Jenkins

One recommended way to help secure your Postfix mail server is enabling TLS (Transport Layer Security) for connections to and from Postfix. You can search for more detailed descriptions of exactly how TLS works, but basically it’s a crypotgraphic protocol that allows connections between systems to remain secure. It relies on a key […]

Configure Postfix TLS with a Free StartSSL Certificate

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged certificate csr free key Postfix self-signed SSL StartSSL TLS on September 23, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3761 days ago)

This is going to be one of those posts that is probably useless to everyone else, but valuable enough to me that I’ll read it over and over. These are the Git commands I use most when working with projects on my GitHub, and with Git repos to which I have read-only access. […]

Git Commands I Like

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged develop git git commands GitHub master merge push on September 20, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5151 days ago)

Why I’m Canceling my Home Depot Credit Card

This entry was posted in Product Reviews Rants and Raves and tagged cancel discount EcoSmart Home Depot Home Depot Credit Card on September 7, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5167 days ago)

Amazon CloudFront — I found a great post by Clay Loveless who wrote a PHP script to batch invalidate files files on an Amazon Web Services CloudFront distribution. You rock, Clay. Amazon doesn’t even let us do that (yet?) via the AWS Mangament Console. Until now, when I wanted to manually invalidate a […]

Simple CloudFront Invalidation of a Single File via HTTP

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged Amazon browser CloudFront distribution HTTP invalidate invalidation PHP simple single file URL on September 6, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3910 days ago)

Another quick tidbit I learned when one of my CentOS boxes was slow to connect via SSH. Connection happened quickly when I would connect from a box on the same router, but connecting from my home machine caused a delay of 20-30 seconds each time. The fix was uncommenting this […]

SSH slow to connect? Turn UseDNS off

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged CentOS IPv6 Linux Redhat slow connect slow SSH sshd_config UseDNS on September 6, 2011 by Steve Jenkins

Google Favicon — If you try to access the URL of your favicon.ico directly (http://example.com/favicon.ico) and your browser opens a “Save As” window instead of just displaying it, then your Apache isn’t set up to properly deliver the .ico file type. Add this line to your httpd.conf file: AddType image/x-icon .ico Don’t forget […]

Favicon.ico not loading? Add an AddType

This entry was posted in Reference Technology and tagged .ico AddType Apache display download favicon favicon.ico Save As x-icon on September 6, 2011 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5168 days ago)

This is one of those blog posts that’s more written for my own benefit to refer to later than for the benefit of the Web-at-large, but if someone else happens to stumble upon it and it helps you out, then cool. 🙂 I had to migrate a Fedora box (the […]