Recently, much to my surprise, I found out that some critical data I had burned on DVD could not be read back from the medium. A more thorough examination showed that many of the files on the DVD had different filesizes than the ones on the hard disk. This is when I started to seriously…
This is a quick notice that I have updated the Comment-Policy plugin for WordPress. The new 0.3 version adds some extra functionality by dynamically modifying the new comment-form field’s name with Javascript, which seems to add an extra barrier to comment submission by bots. Also, I have updated the metadata in all of the WordPress…
Well, it took me several months, but, finally, I found out how to turn off those animations when minimizing windows in the GNOME desktop. I intended to set Metacity as the window manager in a VNC session to see if it’s usable and accidentally, while checking its options in the configuration editor on my current…
As you may have noticed, I’ve changed my web site’s domain recently. Therefore, I had to redirect all requests to the new address. This has been done and it works as expected, but how about taking a closer look at the HTTP responses the web server returns to the client if an old URL is…
I was aware that a non-encrypted VNC session could be recorded and then reproduced, but I had never searched for utilities that could do that job. The recorded sessions can be perfectly used to show others how to accomplish a task and, generally, can serve as excellent training videos. There is a very good HOWTO…