I am nowhere near being an authority on software licensing. However, the recent release of GPLv3 with all the online discussions, all the attempts to exploit statements of the old version 2 of the license in order to achieve automatic license renewal for all the projects that were released under GPLv2 made me re-evaluate, not…
Some days ago, I decided to upgrade my server’s operating system, Fedora. Starting from Fedora Core 3, I have used yum to perform all the distribution upgrades, but for the seventh version of the OS I decided to go all the way re-installing it from scratch. I’ve been improving the server’s configuration files and automation…
This post is both a tip about vsftpd‘s configuration and an example of what an error message should not look like. If you use vsftpd’s user_config_dir directive in order to set a directory that will hold configuration files for per-user customized server options, be warned that, if one of those files contains a directive whose…
I thought that sending a text file as a text message through the GSM network’s short message service would be a trivial task either it was performed from within the phone’s operating system or from a computer that runs a flavour of Linux. Once again, I have been badly misled. In 2007, this task still…
Hardware either works or does not work. Two pieces of hardware are either compatible or icompatible. This is the rule. However, when the incompatibility-gap between the two pieces of hardware is small, there is almost always a way to make these two pieces work together as if they were fully compatible. This generally involves the…
Recently, I had written a post about WordPress 2.2.1 always delivering full content with the author feeds, ignoring the publisher’s settings. I deliberately had not disclosed much information about the issue, not because it was security related, but due to the fact that it could make the content leechers’ job easier and cleaner. Now, that…
I attempted to update the current XHTML 1.0 Transisional WordPress theme in order to comply with the XHTML 1.1 Specification. I must admit that the switch was not that difficult and it required no more than 30 minutes to complete. All the errors and inconsistencies the W3C validator threw at me have been corrected and…
Kudos to the person who thought about this! This article describes how you can prevent comment spam with CSS. I am not sure how well this performs, but it sure looks like a decent solution. I would like to test if it would perform better than my trick of dynamically changing the form field names…
I hadn’t updated WordPress since the time they had issues with some intruders on the WP servers, but I guess it was about time to get over it and catch up with the new versions. But, just minutes after upgrading to WordPress 2.2.1, I tried out a few things and it seems that I have…
The default messages that are emailed by bbPress to newly registered users or users that have requested password recovery are quite disappointing compared to such messages that are sent by other more mature forum applications. So, here is a patch that modifies the default messages, so that they look more professional, containing some details about…