{"id":8388,"date":"2012-07-09T16:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2012-07-09T16:28:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:28:56","slug":"some-updates-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=8388","title":{"rendered":"Some updates and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. This is the Angry Systems Administrator. I&#8217;ve been rather quiet of late and I thought it might be time to bring you up to date on some of the back end things here in the Anger Central Datacenter.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, as you will have heard, the Angry Systems Administrator lost his father a few weeks ago. It wasn&#8217;t a shock. I knew him quite well and he had been in unwell for some time. Still, we all miss him. I know he is now in a better place.<\/p>\n<p>On the technical side, I upgraded the WordPress blog software a couple of weeks ago. It went quite smoothly and there were no issues. These upgrades are getting easier to do with each revision, but I still take multiple full backups ever time. None of the plugins croaked for a change, which was a switch. I&#8217;ve also reduced the number of active plugins and have removed a few older ones. They no longer work or don&#8217;t do what we want them to do.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Angry Webmaster, he called me this weekend, on my day off, venting about his stereo receiver. That ancient pile of rust finally failed and he wasn&#8217;t able to watch his TV. Gee, my heart bleeds for him&#8230;NOT! Anyway, he demanded I come over and help him replace it and get it going again. We hopped down to Best Buy and I found an open box special. It was a display model from last year and was a good 50% off it&#8217;s original price. Since the manual and the remote were missing, I talked the sales rep into a bit more off the list price.<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up a blu-ray player for His Nibs. This one is WiFi capable and I hooked it into the nitwits network. Then I had to reprogram that useless moron&#8217;s Harmony remote. That one was a bit trickier, and I still have a few adjustments to make to it. All in all the entire package., including the extended\u00a0warranties\u00a0came in under $300. Of course that doesn&#8217;t count my time, but we all know that good for nothing cheapskate isn&#8217;t going to slip me a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Receiver\u00a0is a Best buy house brand and isn&#8217;t available from Amazon. I&#8217;ve added the Blu-ray system to the advertising system for your viewing.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, if you see any issues with the site, please use the contact page and let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-8388\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"d653a3ac32\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_8388_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_on.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(8388, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_8388_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(8388, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_8388_3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(8388, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_8388_4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(8388, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_8388_5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(8388, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> (<strong>1<\/strong> votes, average: <strong>1.00<\/strong> out of 5)<br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_8388_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-8388-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span>\n<p>[asa]B006U1YVZ8[\/asa]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. This is the Angry Systems Administrator. I&#8217;ve been rather quiet of late and I thought it might be time to bring you up to date on some of the back end things here in the Anger Central Datacenter. <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=8388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57],"tags":[40,57],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-general-housekeeping","tag-technology"],"views":686,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16032,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=16032","url_meta":{"origin":8388,"position":0},"title":"Another busted plugin","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"September 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. A couple of weeks ago I upgraded Wordpress and a number of plugins stopped working. After a few weeks of digging through things trying to determine the cause, it looks like I've found it.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Angry Systems Administrator","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5296,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=5296","url_meta":{"origin":8388,"position":1},"title":"Screwing around with more plugins","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"October 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all. 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