User support, the daily fight with Users suffering from ESD (as in extreme stupidity disorder) – all that are leaving traces on the admins face. Especially if you think that you got things under control, such users kick in with their creative destruction. Let me tell you a recent example.
Autor: ToeiRei
Driving in the rain
First of all, it is to say that it is not a very pleasant experience to drive a motorcycle in the rain – not to say that I would try to avoid it in general. But as you know, it isn’t always possible to do. Especially if you do not want to have the bike and the rider […]
The blacklist again…
It is wonderful if you know that a plan is working – especially if it’s your own one. Regarding the WP-Blackcheck plugin, it might even fot more here as I was observing less and less spam comments into the moderation queues of the sites I manage. To get some numbers I tried to deactivate a number of other […]
Is it me John Wayne, is it you?
Some spammers can really drive you mad – especially if they are doing things like that. Looking at my mailserver logs I have found some strange IP addresses like 123.27.3.81, 222.252.80.188 or 123.16.13.188 which are resolving to ‚localhost‘ regarding to their reverse DNS. In other words, a bad configured mailserver thinks that the mail comes from itself and […]
Stromsparen
Strom sparen wird in unserer Zeit immer wichtiger – nicht nur wegen dem Umweltschutz sondern auch wegen dem Marketing. Wer es weshalb tut sei nun einmal außen vor gelassen, so lange es richtig gemacht wird. Aber wenn wir über Strom sparen im generellen reden ist es eigentlich das Verhältnis zwischen Leistung und Stromaufnahme mit dem wir uns herumschlagen […]
64 Bit?
My (new) Laptop got a 64 bit CPU doing the number crunching in it – and of course enough RAM to do it all. So it isn’t a miracle, that the OS they delivered with it, was Windows Vista 64. So I looked over the whole installation and saw something scary: most applications are running using the 32 […]