Protect your web sites against stupid sociopaths by identifying and blocking brute-force attacks. Use passwords over 12 characters – it doesn’t matter *which* characters. A for-pay password manager such as LastPass greatly enables your security. Avoid user ids of common names like Bob or Admin. “The Bald Wookie” or “Raving Parted Hare” might work.
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Jetpack locks out administrators after update
JetPack locks you out of your WordPress site after updating. My approach to solving this problem, took two (2) minutes.
USB with Oracle VirtualBox
I fought for some time to get USB devices recognized by VirtualBox. Today, I came across a blog entry with a solution: add your login to the (virtualbox) group “vboxusers”. Problem solved. Not obvious. My check scanner now works via the dedicated Windows 7 machine running in VirtualBox. Here is the relevant blog entry and…