Around 5:30 PM today I had gotten an e-mail letting me know that my web server was down. I figured that since my server is in my basement, I must have had a brownout. No big deal I’d deal with it when I got home. Only it was not me for a change. My cable [...]
Geek
Sigh, WordPress users and hacking
If you are not running the latest version of WordPress and you get hacked, don’t go to the WordPress forum and tell the world. Odds are you invited the disaster yourself. When WordPress 2.5 came out I was disappointed to find that the old version 2.3.x was basically abandoned. There would be no more planned [...]
Getting into photography
I’ve been playing around with the D60 and some digital editing. Nothing much, just minor adjustments and cropping. Since I’m doing such minor editing I don’t bother purchasing any photo applications like Adobe Photoshop Elements. The freely available Paint.NET is more than enough for me so far and the more I look at it, the [...]
I got the Nikon D60
Well that was not too difficult. After doing some shoping we went to Costco and picked up the Nikon D60. We went the next day to Strasburg, PA and I took about 300 pictures of the kids and the trains. Got back today and used Paint.NET to touch up some of them before uploading them [...]
To Digital SLR or not
I’m not a camera person. I have a really good memory for events and like to talk to people. I can’t show people what I saw but the telling is very entertaining. This really means I take lousy pictures, mostly because my hands shake. Using a small camera like our Canon SD400 always get a [...]
Windows XP SP3 installed
I have an odd mix of PC’s in my house. Yesterday I updated the Windows XP box with XP SP3. No issues, wonder if it’s faster than the Vista gaming rig super computer?
Upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
My Ubuntu T40 laptop is “only MOSTLY dead”. The built in LCD display is too dark to read and I replaced it with a HP laptop running Vista Home Premium. I feel slightly guilty about running Vista on it but it runs really well so ptthhhhppp. I put the T40 onto it’s docking station and [...]
.htaccess fix for machine translation
The current version of ATPP is 5.1 and it works really well. But occasionally I get speed bumps from Babelfish and Google translation engines so I end up turning it off for a while. Without the plugin, when someone goes to the translated version of a posting, they get redirected to the home page. For [...]
Opensuse and apache vhosts
This happens often. I do something on my servers and six months later I try to rebuild from scratch what I did and wish I wrote it down. This is one of those blog posts. I reviewed my Apache error logs and noticed that WordPress was tossing fatal PHP errors. I was pretty sure it [...]
Blog re-theming
I’ve been using a modified version of the FastTrack theme by Sadish for a couple of years now. It’s a good theme but it’s designed for a 800×600 resolution screen. Most of the visitors to this website use 1024×768 and on my screen it looked narrow. I felt like I was wasting screen real estate. [...]
