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Netbeans keeps restarting after closing
Netbeans recently informed me that new updates were available. I clicked the “Update” button, unsuspectingly. When Netbeans finally restarted, it only popped up briefly and then closed again immediately. A moment later the splash screen appeared; Netbeans started again, closed again, and so on, until I forcefully terminated the process. Apparently this problem is caused…
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Sound stops in Flash videos (e.g. YouTube)
Lately I couldn’t watch any flash videos, for example on YouTube, neither on my Windows 7 computer nor on my old Windows XP laptop. Well, I could watch them – but every few seconds the sound would stop playing. I found out that several other people had this problem, too, and apparently it was caused…
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A happy new year …
… the best of luck and success, and, above all, health! All this and more we wish for ourselves and our fellow men (but mostly for ourselves) at the beginning of each year. As if we didn’t know better. 2011 will, too, be a year full of flops, bad luck and mishaps, of failure and disease,…
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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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Broken Link Checker and other great WordPress Plugins
Actually, I just wanted to write a short post about my newly discovered WordPress Plugin: Broken Link Checker. It allows you to scan through and test all links on your site. It will then list all links that don’t work anymore or are now being redirected to a different address. Since the Internet is a…