Overview Having a Lenovo Yoga 2 13″ (non-pro) running Ubuntu 14.04.1, I couldn’t get Wireless LAN up and running, as the WLAN NIC appeared to be “hardware locked”. This is the summary of how I solved this issue. If you’re not interested in the gory details, you may jump right to bottom, where I offer [...]
The idea is to take a mail that has already been send (and is hence in the “sent” folder and send it again with sendmail. Why? In my case the idea is that Thunderbird and sendmail connect to different relay servers, and the one used by Thunderbird 3.0.7 is blacklisted by the destination (I got [...]
Introduction I’ve been annoyed for quite a while by Thunderbird’s strong inclination towards HTML mail. To the extent that if I don’t really, really verify that a mail goes out in plain text, it’s probably going to slip out in HTML. This is bad in particular when sending mails to Linux-related mailing lists. They don’t [...]
Sometimes, there are JavaScript snippets for the sake of obfuscation (hmmm, including this site). This is code made complicated intentionally, to prevent web spiders from harvesting addresses or emails. But hey, what if I’m the one with the spider? The simple, and somewhat dangerous solution, is to run the JavaScript code on a local interpreter. [...]
Intro I needed some neat overlay to appear when the user clicks those question-mark icons on a specific, Drupal-based page. So I went for using jQuery’s tooltip widget, with due adaptations. It turned out to be a wise choice. The idea is simple: Click on the question mark, an overlay window appears right underneath it, [...]
This is a small, but annoying thing about WordPress. They obviously didn’t consider the “0x” hexadecimal notation. What they did consider, was that if someone says “2x2″ that surely means “2 times 2″, so why not making that “x” in the middle fancy? Well, maybe because that makes “0x123″, which is a hexadecimal number, look [...]
Views and SQL Using Drupal views basically is trying to figure out how to trick the machine into making the SQL query I would have written in five minutes. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I had a chance of getting this right, hadn’t I known SQL pretty well. Or, as one of [...]
This is just a collection of jots I ( = a Drupal newbie) wrote down as I set up a site with Drupal 7.2. Don’t expect this to be more coherent than a typical shopping list. March 2019 update: Drupal was a huge mistake. Just in case someone out there still has a chance to [...]
The old way Sometimes all you need is a quick crawl within a site, which requires to log in first. There are two main techniques I can think about: One is to POST the login form with your script, and get the necessary cookie setting. The second is to login manually with a browser, and [...]
Someone once told me that WWW stands for World Wide Wait. But when the page is held because the browser waits for a Google Ad to come in, that’s really annoying. I didn’t want that to happen in my site. So here’s the story about how to have the page displayed first, ads later. One [...]