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OmmWriter alternatives for Windows
It’s been almost exactly one year since I first read about OmmWriter, a so-called “distraction-free writing environment”. The point of such a program is to cover the entire screen, so you will no longer be seduced by flashing icons, pop-up messages or other enticements in your task bar, but instead devote your undivided attention to…
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(Deutsch) Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt …
Sorry, this entry is only available in German.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Error 8007051a on Windows update
I recently tried to download and install a few Windows 7 updates, but the auto-updater kept aborting the process with the error number “8007051a”. There was no particularly descriptive error message. At first I thought that it was just some server that could not be reached. But when it still didn’t work after days, I began…