Trying to move some automatic backups from one location to another became a bit of a struggle recently. The backups are created automatically and uploaded to a file server at a scheduled pattern. From this file server I had to use some of the backups and tried to download them to my local machine. This [...]
I received a question today on how to sort a list of strings which was actually rather simple to accomplish. The following list is the original sorting: caca cocacola ca cacacacacola c cacacacacacacaac cacaa The requested list after sorting should look like this: c ca caca cacaa cocacola cacacacacola cacacacacacacaac What I first did was [...]
After booting up Windows XP I encountered an automatic update notification. During the progress I noticed an update named something like “…kill-bit ActiveX…” which I could not identify what was for and therefore looked it up. The Kill-Bit appears to be something as simple as a registry entry to disable vulnerable ActiveX controls or COM [...]
I have been using Virtualmin for several years which is one of the greatest modules for Webmin allowing simple set-up and management of virtual hosts. Inside the “Scheduled Backup” feature I came across the “Do strftime-style time substitutions on file or directory name” check box but never actually properly made use of it: I came [...]
After upgrading to the latest version of the free anti virus application from AVG I encountered constant crashes of Firefox. It seems that AVG 8 includes a utility called LinkScanner which marks whether a website is supposedly a threat or safe upon using a search engine: I am not the biggest fan of these utilities [...]
I wondered why sometimes the Home and End keys work as expected during a SSH session via PuTTY and some other times it just writes tildes (~) instead. When writing long commands it is a real annoyance having to press down the left arrow to get back to the beginning of the command. A simple [...]
When writing something I usually have a hard time categorising the content as very seldom it will fit into one single category. The solution to this may simply be adding it to more categories instead but then the category hierarchy actually breaks. Instead I definitely prefer to assign tags to content which is much more [...]
I had to add the Google Analytics code snippet to this site and had some issues with it validating as XHTML 1.1 and MIME type application/xhtml+xml which were solved at the end. The snippet is divided into two pieces of <script> tags and the first part is simply a feature to avoid getting warning messages [...]
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