Author: johayek
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I am just enjoying an Avishai Cohen concert (uploaded to YouTube)
this is one of the really few uses I have for a Google Chromecast (if not the only one) I am running Chromium on my MacBook, from there I am “casting” the YouTube video to the Chromecast attached to my new Samsung 19″ TV / monitor in my kitchen the TV is not a high-class…
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Linux “watch” in Perl executable on AIX and Solaris and Mac OS X
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_(Unix) backpan.perl.org/authors/id/G/GR/GRAHJENK/watch-1.03.pl The story: I got fed up with a local “loop” script, thinking there must be a standard utility for this, came across the watch utility while reading “Linux Server Hacks (xof2)“, and searched for “linux watch in perl“, 1st on DuckDuckGo (failing!), then on Google, got hold of watch.pl; it works on the…
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the simpliest way to get yesterday’s date on a Unix command line
$ date ‘+%Y%m%d’ –date=yesterday 20140603
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even posting to my blog from my phone seems to work again
Self-hosting your WordPress blogs gives you so many more options, but it lets you run into so many problems. I hope, there will be a long time with a minimal amount of trouble ahead. Of course, self-hosting your blogs relieves you from the sorrow, that Google is going to suspend Blogger.com within just a couple…
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why are my WordPress blog article subjects all “all-upper-cased” resp. how do I get rid of this annoying feature?
I have no idea, where I can find the setting for this feature. It is most probably theme-related. Update: Thanks go to https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChristianAust , who explained me on Google+, where to find the respective setting: …/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/style.css: .entry-title { text-transform:uppercase } I simply removed all those “uppercasings” – because I don’t like that anyway. Oh, how relaxing it is…
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Polar V800 – my new little discreet sports watch
www.polarv800.com www.polar.com/en/products/maximize_performance/running_multisport/V800 they sell it at EUR 450 in the Polar web shop and also in the sports shop around the corner in the case of “shop around the corner”: this includes a free introduction seminary (15 min. / 2 hrs. / 4 hrs.?? who knows) – but only, if they sell 20 pieces within…
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BackWPup “Free” – WordPress Backup Plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ Schedule complete automatic backups of your WordPress installation. Decide which content will be stored (Dropbox, S3…). This is the free version. I am using it to store a filesystem directory at my webspace provider’s site.
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I am so glad: the blogs on my self-hosted WordPress site seem to work smoothly again
This allows me again, to “publish” whatever it “needs” to publish i.e. whatever I “can’t” tell anyone personally, because “they” are not interested or because telling people “personally” is far too intrusive. That may sound sad, but I got used to it and I almost don’t care any more; and this way some of my…
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the GNU packages that I need most seriously on my Synology NAS
CAVEAT: In 2017 I started using opkg (Entware-NG) instead of ipkg (optware). This document may not be updated entirely to reflect the new circumstances. https://wiki.jochen.hayek.name/w/index.php?title=Synology_DSM – better use and maintain that article instead of this one theses are the GNU packages I seriously need on my Synology NAS (there is actually more than one …):…
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secure login to MySQL or MariaDB
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/password-security-user.html I need to back up the MySQL databases on my web space, and of course these databases are password protected. How to supply the password to the MySQL utilities? To make things short: from a professional point of view: old releases of MySQL (i.e. < 5.6.???) and all releases of MariaDB do not provide…