Some thoughts about Copyright related activism
There has been much controversy about Copyright and file-sharing on the internet during the last decade. Admittedly, the All Rights Reserved statement is incompatible with the nature of communications...
View ArticleBack to blogging
Well, it’s been a while since my last post and I think it’s about time I started posting some new stuff here. During all these months I spent my free time οn various things. As far as tech is concerned...
View ArticleFixing the robots.txt content type of Redmine at CodeTRAX
This post describes how I addressed an issue with the content type of the robots.txt file of my Redmine installation at CodeTRAX, so that the indexing bots could properly evaluate it and thus index...
View ArticleThings to avoid when using the installation wizard of MediaWiki
Using MediaWiki's web based installation wizard while various authorization and other security mechanisms are in place throughout Apache's configuration contexts can lead to problems which are very...
View ArticleMaintenance time
It’s been several years since the last time I did any maintenance work on the web site. Time permitting during the following weeks I intend to check the published tutorials for outdated information,...
View ArticleHow to terminate running Python threads using signals
This post outlines some important details you should know in case you plan to use signals to terminate a Python script that uses threads. A sample code snippet is also provided as an example that shows...
View ArticleHow to set the Expires header correctly in Varnish
This post provides the required VCL code and describes how to dynamically set the Expires header whenever an object that has been cached by Varnish is requested.
View ArticlePrevent text wrapping inside the pre HTML tag
While doing some maintenance work on my web site, I noticed that the text of long lines inside the pre HTML tags wrapped. I’m quite certain this kind of text wrapping did not occur in the past. After...
View ArticleHow to tail log entries through the systemd journal using Python
This post describes how to use the Python bindings of systemd in order to follow and parse log entries of a specific service in real time through systemd's journal. This is an alternative way to tail...
View ArticleHacked and exploited!
During the last 2 or 3 years there have been various pieces of evidence that my electronic systems have been the target of malicious hacker groups in Greece and some very important things I had been...
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