Month: October 2010

  • Miranda IM: no connection to ICQ

    Since one or two days, my Miranda has no longer been able to connect to ICQ. At first I thought it was only some server being temporarily inaccessible, but after two days I got suspicious. However, I quickly found the reason for the problem: AOL, the former owner of ICQ, have deactivated the old SSL…

  • Server problems

    My web host WebGo24 is currently transferring all accounts to new servers. In the night of 13. to 14., my site was being moved, and since then my WordPress is bugging a little. At first, neither the page itself nor the the admin area would load. After I had manually disabled all plugins in the…

  • Javascript’s Math.random() – when random isn’t random

    Yesterday I wrote a function in Javascript that should return random integers in a given range; basically just the same as the PHP function rand($min, $max). But after a few test runs I noticed that the numbers were not quite as random as they should be; some of them appeared more often than expected, others…