Author: Dave

  • Diablo II: The story is reborn

    Diablo II: The story is reborn

    The Lord of Terror returns in Diablo II: Resurrected, bringing with him millennia of cosmic baggage spanning numerous realms, books, and games. To help you better understand the state of Sanctuary at the beginning of your new adventure, we put together a brief timeline of the tug-of-war between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells and the chaotic events sparked by this strife.

    For those of us that have played this genre busting game since the beginning, this is arguably the Diablo 3 we had always wanted; the future of Diablo 2 is secured with new ladders and new runewords on their way. Read on for a recap of the Diablo 2 Story, find links to rejoin the fun at the bottom.

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  • ISPConfig 3.2 v Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

    ISPConfig 3.2 v Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

    What a headache that was …

    ISPConfig 3.2 can work with Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS without to much grief; it just isn’t particularly well documented. So here is some help.

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  • A bit of Console Fun

    A bit of Console Fun

    It seems KFC have jumped on the Playstation 5 or xBox X bandwagon with the release of the KFConsole … The best bargain bucket you will ever have! Awesome bit of marketing on their behalf.

  • ISPConfig versus Certbot Updates

    ISPConfig versus Certbot Updates

    Well this was a little break in the day; I have a client using ISPConfig (and I updated the instructions for that as well, you can find them here) to look after various aspects of their internet presence and whilst it doesn’t change very much, every now and then they like to add sites or email domains. ISPConfig was setup to use Letsencrypt and up until very recently that was not really a problem.

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  • Upgrade Debian Jessie to Stretch, Buster and Beyond

    Upgrade Debian Jessie to Stretch, Buster and Beyond

    So it’s been a while and we haven’t bothered updating that Debian 8 (Jessie) server, quite simply because it wasn’t broken … and we all know, if it’s not broken then there is no need to fix it.

    However the time has come to upgrade, because you want to change out some of the other elements of the services on the server but they require a more recent version of Debian Linux.

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  • Is your PHP fit for the bin? Upgrade to PHP 7.3

    Is your PHP fit for the bin? Upgrade to PHP 7.3

    So you need to upgrade PHP, you’re fed up seeing the warnings in everything from WordPress to Joomla and everything in between, then we need to upgrade PHP to version 7. This upgrades to 7.3 as it is the most stable at this point.

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  • WooCommerce Checkout Fields and Uploads

    WooCommerce Checkout Fields and Uploads

    If you’re running a WooCommerce payment gateway for your project but you find that you need to add some additional fields to the checkout to keep your client happy, or indeed to placate some law in whichever random country takes their fancy to change the rules of engagement. Of course you could add one of the plethora of plugins out there to do the job, but of course you know and understand the risks of your client having access to that sort of thing whilst you’re not looking.

    To begin with there are two things you absolutely need to understand, adding woocommerce checkout fields into the actual checkout form can be any type apart from ‘file’, if you want to upload anything, then you need to create hooks that exist outside of the checkout_form and add meta data to the order on the fly. You will waste hours of your life trying to find the answer, so save yourself the bother.

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