Month: September 2012
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from “docs” to “drive”, docs.google.com to drive.google.com
I guess like many people on planet Earth, these days I received a message saying something like this: Your 99 files stored in Google Docs are now in Google Drive I wonder. whether they did a good job, letting all applications have access to the old paths for long enough.
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curl hangs talking to a web-site through https – actually a TSL version issue
Solved. Known problems (possibly) related to this: http://drupal.org/node/1506312 (not solved there so far (apparently)) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658276 – yes, definitely the same!!! … This SSL / TLS problem seems to appear in March 2012; all the “before 2012” problems, that sound similar, are not related to this issue resp. they do not have the exact same reason. The solution…
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O’Reilly Media book: Linux in a Nutshell
Linux in a Nutshell: Everything you need to know about Linux is right in this book. The latest edition of this popular reference offers a tighter focus on Linux system essentials, as well as more coverage of new capabilities such as wireless network management, DVD recording, and revision control with git. Linux in a Nutshell,…
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movie: Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (2006)
Apocalypto (2006) Watched this on TV Saturday/Sunday night. Impressive. Worrying.
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plupload: experimenting with the sample application
the plupload ZIP archive (available on http://plupload.com/) comes with a sample application copied the contents of the ZIP file to /srv/www/htdocs/plupload/ on an openSUSE-12.1 Linux box (“HOST”) – this is where my Apache2 httpd serves HOST/plupload/ resp. HOST/plupload/examples/custom.html from where does the application want to get the files uploaded to? silly me didn’t have a close enough…
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openSUSE-12.2 : upgrading again …
downloading the 4.7GB DVD ISO image from a mirror – funny to watch a download rate of 1.92M/s with wget; my last installation was with the network CD, but this time I am giving the DVD installation another try, as I want to implement this upgrade on 3 boxes within a rather short time after the release…