For the Linux users who don't like using unRAID's browser-based VNC client to connect to their VM's, you may have tried using Remminawith less than stellar results. When I first tried out Remmina with unRAID, I was met with an immediate and abrupt window closure. I tried again thinking this may be a glitch, but sadly saw the same behavior. Some quick Googling didn't unveil a fix so I tabled th ...
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NGINX: Reject Unwanted Traffic
Awhile back, I posted a guide about Migrating from Apache to NGINXand in one of the steps I mistakenly wrote that you should remove the default NGINX config file. At the time, I believed this would block any unwanted traffic to your web server such as web traffic directed at the server's IP address, but I've since learned that NGINX will actually redirect that traffic to the first server block ...
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CSS Positions: Keeping an Absolute Element Inside its Parent
In CSS, when you style an element with position: absolute, you'll often notice that said element will teleport outside of its parent and float happily on its own, sometimes even totally offscreen. This might've been enough to scare you off absolute positioning altogether, but I'm here to coax you back.
What the heck is going on?
When researching CSS absolute ...
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unRAID, Windows & the Invisible Mouse Cursor
If you've ever setup a Windows VM in unRAID, you've probably noticed that the mouse cursor is almost invisible in unRAID's noVNC window. Installing the virtio video driver helps some, but it's still very difficult to locate.
I've tried a few solutions to enhance the visibility of the mouse cursor, but the best and simplest trick I've found is to invert the curs ...
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Avoiding Outages when using Wordfence & NGINX
If you run WordPress, it's a good idea to have some type of security software to protect against the endless attacks waged against your precious websites. One of the most popular security plugins available to mitigate this onslaught is Wordfence.
Wordfence is a free security plugin that offers a lot of features to protect your site, one of which is called Firewall Optimiza ...
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