This is mainly a note to myself about two patches, just in case I ever decide to use OpenSSH for networking, in addition to remote administration. First, is the cipler-none patch that adds none as a valid argument to the -c command line option. By using it, the transferred data is not encrypted. Pros: eliminates…
This is just a quick note that I have upgraded to Fedora 9. Generally, I am against upgrading an operating system at the time of a new release. The new OS version might be tagged as stable, but it is a fact that, during the first weeks after the release, many new bugs are discovered.…
They say that by disabling IPv6 things get a bit smoother and faster regarding networking. I don’t really know if this is true, but I guess, if you’ve decided to disable this feature, you probably care to do it the Right Way™. As far as I know, trying to disable IPv6 through anaconda during the…
Syndicated content has almost become the standard way of distributing web content nowadays. WordPress can deliver its content in various different feed formats –RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, RDF, RSS 0.92– and can generate feeds for both the published posts -grouped by time, category, tag, author etc- and the comments that have been submitted by readers.…
One of the most efficient methods to reduce the usage of bandwidth by the web server and, at the same time, increase the speed of the content delivery is to compress your web pages and, generally, all output that is returned to the clients. The compression of the web content can be done using several…
This is a WordPress plugin that removes the generator meta tag from the head section of your web pages. This meta tag is automatically added by WordPress for statistical purposes. Please note that this plugin has been discontinued.
You may have obtained my password, but you can’t type it like me! This could be the summary of the excellent article, titled Identify and verify users based on how they type by Nathan Harrington, which demonstrates how it is possible to enhance a computer system’s security by using a special algorithm which, in addition…
Since WordPress v2.5, it is no longer possible to use the <!–more–> tag within a post in order to define an excerpt which will be used on both the web and feeds. Now, WordPress uses this tag to split a post for the web only, while the feeds can contain either the full-text or an…
The Portable Document Format (PDF) has become the de facto standard for document distribution as it ensures that the distributed text and images can be read or printed appropriately under a variety of platforms. If I recall correctly, it must have been over 8-9 years since I had first searched the web for a PDF…
A few months ago, I had published a praising post about Adobe Reader’s performance and feature set in comparison to Linux’ default PDF reader, Evince (Fedora Core 6 at the time of that older post). Since then, things have changed significantly for Evince in terms of performance, so I, as a user, would be unfair…