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Learning to ‘hack’ with Security Override

In August 2011, probably while procrastinating learning for my university admission exams, with one mouldy foot still in my IT-past, I signed up for Security Override, an online game designed to turn network security n00bs such as myself into novices. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 7 years ago, on March 14, 2015, at 16:03 | 1 comment

How to learn anything, according to Josh Kaufman

Judging by the following notes in my ~/jot directory, I was inspired two years ago (Oct 23, 2013) by a TEDx talk by Josh Kaufman on learning: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 7 years ago, on March 14, 2015, at 16:03 | Comments closed

The Architecture of Open Source Applications book

This link to The Architecture of Open Source Applications book was gathering dust somewhere in my ~/jot directory. In true free software spirit, it is released under a Creative Commons licence and the individual chapters are readable online. Each chapter about the architecture of a particular open source software project is written by the (co-)author of that respective project. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 7 years ago, on March 14, 2015, at 15:03 | Comments closed

Keeping an unsupported Mint/Ubuntu installation ‘up-to-date’

When a Linux Mint release goes out of support, together with the Ubuntu release on which it is based, the Ubuntu packages become unavailable. This can be annoying for old fossils like me who stubbornly contue to use a release that has gone out of support, as I'm doing with Mint 14 (Nadia), based on Ubuntu 12.10, (Quantal Quetzal). (“Yeah, yeah; I'll upgrade soon; I promise.”) Luckily, the out-of-support packages remain available in a different location. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 7 years ago, on November 20, 2014, at 21:11 | 2 comments

Fixed annoying pagination issue

In July 2013, I noticed that somehow the settings of the wp-page-numbers plugin for this blog had reset, which sucked donkey balls. I had fixed it then, but a while ago, the problem again raised its ugly head, so I had to fix it again. Weird. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 7 years ago, on September 06, 2014, at 16:09 | Comments closed

G.B.D. Calamari Joomla and phpBB upgrade

As the chairman of G.B.D. Calamari, a Dutch student diving association, it falls to me to upgrade an aging Joomla configuration that is a relict of the last time that the board was chaired by somebody with web-development expertise (Joris van Alphen). This happened to be during a time when Joomla 1.5.20 was cutting-edge. It no longer is, so, although the website still looks nifty enough for this day and age (in my ageing eyes, at least), a software upgrade is long overdue. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 7 years ago, on September 06, 2014, at 15:09 | 1 comment

Decreasing shutdown time of MySQL with large transaction log file

If you need/have a large transaction log file, a shut down can take a while. This post lists how you can force a flush before you do so, decreasing shut down time. Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 years ago, on July 15, 2014, at 17:07 | 1 comment

Excellent article about LC resonance resulting from turn-on transients

This article gives a good explation of LC resonances caused by turn-on transients. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on April 26, 2014, at 17:04 | Comments closed

Better nagios SMS and E-mail messages

Just for my references. I made changes to it before, but I now added the comments to them (for custom notifications and acknowledgements): Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on April 04, 2014, at 16:04 | Comments closed

Teamviewer replacements

ChunkVNC consists of three parts, InstantSupport, Repeater and Viewer. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 years ago, on March 11, 2014, at 12:03 | Comments closed