So I was install the SSL certificate in prep for a Virtual Christmas Tree – I had the SSL for a long time and two of us cringe when we hear “lets renew our SSL certificate” because it is always a dogs breakfast. We the decided to both write this and and that down “for next time” as we only do this once every 3 or 4 months and each situation and platform is different. I heard one of my customers say “oh- that is included in my package”. I asked “how much do you pay for your package?” “Oh … $370 per month” he said – so someone is installing his SSL too (maybe I am too inexpensive) and likely has pulled his hair out as well a time or two. Alas – here are some notes for next year to help me help my clients next year and do it quicker each time. I hope it helps you as well.

I try to help businesses be on the web at the price target they want to spend for IT. However, that often means that the owner will do the work. Often it doesn’t get done because a business owner doesn’t WANT to do the web stuff. That’s not their expertise or likely interest. Blogging (getting out there) that “HAS to be done” to keep google happy for SEO and make links for the public to find you.

Putting together my profession and some of my volunteer experience, here are some tips and encouragement to make blogging less stressful. Here we go …

(in a future article, I will publish a template for blogging/brainstorming to help with SEO)

I have 13 classes and I followed Ritesh and his gang at Augmented startups and bought his course which won’t be ready for 2 more weeks. He is a super nice guy and he and a couple others will work with me to get it running – but I think I just succeeded (there is an 8 hour time difference)! I also followed this guy on medium.com’s tutorial but am NOT using Colab – I have set things up per the tutorials online for that course! But I think it is working. I am getting a blur of text scrolling at insane speeds (if you pull up the handle on the scroll window it stops enough for you to read) in my cmd window and it says 12 hours left. I think I got carried away classifying things – I had only intended on 3.

I tried to follow AlexeyAB/darknet’s instructions but at one point – he starts talking about something – I think it was dragged out of place or he didn’t finish his … SQUIRREL! Not sure. I will document what I did and my performance

So I didn’t find a tool so I could look at my work and double check all the image classifications and I wanted to ensure that I as as accurate as possible. So I wrote one. I used LabelImg to reclassify about 3 categories into 10 categories – and .. sadly after I made this new tool I am glad I did as I am not perfect by any stretch 🙁

Now that I am done – here are my results – is that OK? I don’t now yet

I am classifying using YOLOv4 and using AlexeyAB’s version of Darknet. He also has a classifying tool (putting boxes on images) for it called Yolo_mark. I signed up for a course and the teacher (who is totally helping me out – super guy on the video and in real life) suggests Supervisor.ly but it seems to be an online tool and I have thousands of images to mark/classify (oh and I am from Dutch descent – so the enterprise version will not be an option as there is no downloadable trial version). So his course isn’t quite ready (he said a couple weeks) where he will demo this so I have searched a bit and I found a VERY basic tool that is keyboard driven except selecting and moving the box. SUPER FAST TO USE it turns out. It needed a couple tweaks too so here goes ( I should mention I am following this guy’s guide when AlexeyAB’s instructions got a little vague) …

Here are some links to help. Basically here is an article how to set SPF & DKIM – THEN you have to put DMARC. It is something you do on all your domains and is the same. A couple videos tell you what DKIM is (I like how he emphasis the ‘D’ on DKIM – everytime) and other one is for all SPF,DKIM, DMARC AND he sets up his own server so you can get a feel for what is going on under hood.

So for me, I had to enable SPF and DKIM – now here is a straight forward approach for cPanel. Then add a DMARC record.

DMARC works atop of dkim and spf. for enabling dkim, we normally do this using a server command. We can also do this manually by following this guide, https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/using-dkim-with-third-party-dns under “Find and Copy Your DKIM-Signature” then simply add the record in cPanel > Zone editor > TXT

• DMARC Check: Use this link – note the format of the link: https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dmarc%3amydomain.com&run=toolpage
• At that link – you can also check the SPF and DKIM

What a nightmare. First, if you have Visual Studio – you have to have a new product and like most Microsoft Coding products it has a name SO CLOSE to the familiar – you have a watch a video to figure it out. VISUAL STUDIO (that is used to code) IS NOT THE SAME AS VISUAL STUDIO CODE (download and install that first).

You have to run node 8.x or 10.x as per this Microsoft Article – it happened when I went to

gulp trust-dev-cert and it gave me the gears.

DONT USE THIS!!!! To change node version on windows use nodist (install it using chocolatey) and runchoco install nodistThen run a new powershell. If you run into “The file C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\nodist.ps1 is not digitally signed” then run –END DONT USE

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass

then downgrade to npm 10.20.1 Well that didn’t work – so lets get nvm-windows installed. Keep reading (yes – nvm-windows worked).