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osTicket Was Silently Dropping Reply Alerts — Here’s What Actually Broke

Andy — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:09:38 +0000

We recently ran into a frustrating and surprisingly difficult-to-diagnose osTicket issue involving: The weird part? Everything appeared to work correctly. Customer replies were successfully appended to existing tickets, but osTicket never generated “New Message Alert” notifications for staff or agents. This post documents: Environment Our stack looked like this: Component Configuration osTicket v1.18.3 OS Ubuntu …

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Building My First FPV Drone | Parts – Build – Tips

Andy — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 20:44:44 +0000

I’ve had a DJI drone for a few years now. It’s reliable and super easy to fly. Recently a friend asked me if I had any recommendations for an FPV drone – next thing you know, I was researching how exactly to build an FPV drone of my own. So here’s what I did! Parts …

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Windows 3D Pinball on 7, 8, & 10

Andy — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:50:50 +0000

We all remember the good old times when the bundled games that came with an operating system were actually worth playing. Solitaire, Minesweeper, and my personal favorite, Pinball. Unfortunately a lot of these are missing from today’s operating systems. Most require an additional download or even cost a few dollars to get full access to. …

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Can’t watch Netflix! Comcast disrupting connection?

Andy — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:25:39 +0000

There are many online content providers, from Google Play to Amazon Prime. However, the one with the best content selection for the price is still Netflix. Netflix is an amazing service, especially considering the price. Unfortunately I can only fully utilize this service if my internet connection can support it. Now ideally, I pay my …

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Setting Up Automatic Remote Backups With rsync

Andy — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:20:52 +0000

Keeping up to date backups is very important when dealing with any type of online server. One can never predict when a hard drive will fail, a file system gets corrupt, or even when mother nature will ruin your day. Thus the reason to keep not only an on-site backup but a remote duplicate in …

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Battlefield 4 PC Review

Andy — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:10:44 +0000

On October 29, 2013, DICE released their latest addition to the Battlefield series of first person shooter video games; Battlefield 4. I personally played the public beta in early October and I have to say, I wasn’t impressed. The game came heavy with bugs, hindering the ability to enjoy playing the game. I also didn’t …

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Setup A Minecraft Pocket Edition Dedicated Server

Andy — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:22:40 +0000

Minecraft is awesome, we all know that. For the most part the game has been played on the PC and recently been developed to work on the xBox. Even more recently Mojang has developed pocket editions of this great game. Android and iOS users can now download Minecraft – Pocket Edition that runs on their …

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Feed The Beast: Ultimate – Automatic Peat Farm

Andy — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:43:49 +0000

I’ve come to the conclusion that I just haven’t been producing as much video game content as I would like to. I play video games every day but I never share any of it with my readers. Well, to day that changes. Today I’m going to show you my little peat farm that I have …

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Greenify – Keep Background Android Apps Under Control

Andy — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:01:46 +0000

Android is a great operating system with so many powerful applications that expand its possibilities. The only downside to this large array of applications is that many of them are written in a way where they are always running in the background of your phone. As much as I like having the Facebook app on …

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VolumeDrive Down | August 2013

Andy — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:18:12 +0000

UPDATES AT BOTTOM OF POST I have been using a VPS from VolumeDrive for quite some time now. To be honest, I don’t know why I still have it. I have reviewed VolumeDrive before and the review was mostly positive but it seems that all the trouble I am having just isn’t worth the price. …

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