Author: johayek
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Hibiscus Payment Server – successfully upgraded to 2.6.5
http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2013/11/15/hibiscus-payment-server-hbci-banking/ – added the migration steps there everything was fine, the .json files (that I exptract) are just the same – I like it very much that way
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upgrading my selfhosted WordPress’s core to 3.9 – initially that was a mere disaster
After the upgrade my blogs were not available any longer. It looked like a serious database problem. I felt in disaster mode for days (because I went on a holiday and I did not immediately have the time to solve the issue). It wasn’t really a big deal, but I wasn’t able to find this…
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Facebook: videos on my News Feed auto-play without my confirmation
https://www.facebook.com/help/633446180035470 For Android and iOS they (Facebook) allow to restrict this to “Auto-play videos on Wi-Fi only” but even with my MacBook I am rather often only “on the Internet” through a 3G/4G modem, and “my data plan” is just as much concerned as a smartphone or tablet owner’s one. I also want to be…
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Modern Perl 2014 edition is out in print and free online now
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2014/04/modern-perl-2014-edition-is-out.html
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skype: they de-activated my account, although I sent a text message from it
Then they sent me an e-mail message, that explains me, how to reactivate it, and again: Your balance remains active for 180 days after your last call to a landline or mobile phone; or last text message sent from Skype. I shall see, how true that is. At least it is not that bad to get…
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World Autism Day – the Waldon Approach
http://www.haaretz.com/life/science-medicine/.premium-1.583161
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the official language spoken in the Maldives is “Divehi”, an Indo-Aryan language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldivian_language A young colleague had his honeymoon in the Maldives, and the question arose, what language they speak there. The bigger issue seemed to be the supply of the muslim island’s / country’s resp. its tourism industry with pork. Pork apparently gets delivered from India.
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: what versions to choose in March/April 2014
After completing my recent “incident article” on emacs/tramp/win/putty [link], I thought I should prepare an article with a clear subject resp. statement. This is it. I sort of think resp. hope, that all currently released versions work together well. But PuTTY-0.63 breaks this expectation. “Windows 7 Professional” is set – because that’s the current company…
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PKWARE’s APPNOTE.TXT – .zip file format specification
http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT – THE document defining the pkzip file format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKZIP PKWARE is for “Phil Katz Software” there was a famous lawsuit between SEA and PKWARE about the source code, that pkzip was based on, as it got actually derived from shareware written by SEA at the time both SEA and PKWARE were small home-based companies