I guess you all know the common problem with cheap hardware being used as a server box, don’t you? I’m fed up with those troubles and decided to use some professional hardware.
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
Windows 7 Beta
I guess I was part of the crowd who took the Microsoft server down by downloading the new beta version of Windows 7. Surely I am not the biggest Windows fan on earth – and never will be as I cannot use an operating system that eats my resources for graphical bling instead of providing them to the […]
Working remote
All people who have done helpdesk work or another support job in the IT area do know the problem by heart: How do you direct users to do exactly what you want them to do? Well – usually you tell them every mouse click. But what if you don’t know the exact word on the buttons or the […]
But apple can do
I recently got the chance to check out an apple server box and work with it for a little while, as the admin there was absent and some stuff had to be done – especially the updates which I had to do. Fine thing for sure, so I fired up the Apple updater that pulled in the updates […]
KDE 4 – still no thanks (yet)
As I was hit by KDE4 due to the ~arch keyword on my gentoo box in october, I was playing with KDE4 for quite a while. I even had the two versions in parallel. But due to starting up wrong version of binaries due to PATH issues, I am pretty fed up with testing. Unmerging the whole KDE […]
JSSpamBlock 2.1?
You might remember my ranting about the JSSpamBlock plugin of Paul Butler, thinking of porting it to the actual WP release. I have decided to keep an eye on it fixing various bugs for keeping it compatible. JSSpamBlock extends the comment form with a simple input field for checking if you’re human or not. As this function uses […]