After connecting few computers with Windows 8.1 to domain we found that these computers are not recognized or recognized as Windows 6.3 (which is true) on WSUS 3.0 running on Windows Server 2008. The bad thing was that they can’t properly report to WSUS and get updates from it. I found that there are two updates...

I love Shotwell external link for it’s simplicity and easy export to Piwigo external link . After Christmas I added new photos to my library but after that I made some modifications to them (red eye reduction, etc…). Because Shotwell generate thumbnails only on import, all my modifications were not visible on preview.

Few days ago I’ve read a book ‘Even Faster Web Sites‘ about websites optimisation and I found one thing usefuluseful, not only on websites. There was a small tip about looploop unlooping. I want to quote them for later use. First - with switch statement var iterations = Math.ceil(values.length / 8); var startAt =...

Some time ago I write article about tracking nicknames of users (from comments) on a WordPress blog with Piwik . This time I’m doing same but for Google Analytics. I’m using Google Analytics external link plugin for WordPress so I’ve edited googleanalytics.php file to add some additional code for user tracking:...

Some time ago I’ve show how to precompress js and css file with gzip to be available for Nginx’s mod_gzip. In default configuration Apache don’t have such module but similar functionality could be achieved with few custom rewirtes. Basically we will start with these rewrites to serve gzipped CSS/JS files if they...

I’m happy owner of Galaxy Nexus 7 and lately I updated my tablet to Android 4.4 Kitkat. One of features I most expected was ability to block some permissions of some applications. Such setting was available in 4.4 version but was removed in latest 4.4.2 - Google didn’t explain it exactly why. I don’t like when for...

After the last NSA scandal I’ve found some time to read some texts about PFS and ECDSA keys lately. I always used RSA keys but wanted to give a try to ECDSA so I wanted to give it a try (test performance, etc). Here is how I’ve done it. Firstly find your favorite curve. A short tip about bit length and complexity...

Lately I tried to remove some streams from MKV file - I wanted: video, audio in my language and no subtitles. I achieved it with mkvtoolnix utils. Firstly I have to identify streams in file: $ mkvmerge -i input_file.mkv File 'test.mkv': container: Matroska Track ID 0: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) Track ID 1: audio...

Some time ago I prepared a PC that was responsible for batch encoding of movies to formats suitable for web players (such as. Video.js external link , JW Player external link , Flowplayer external link , etc.)

SPDY is new protocol proposed by Google as an alternative for HTTP(S). Currently Chrome and Firefox browsers are using it as default if available on server. It is faster in most cases by few to several percent. The side effect of using mod_spdy external link is that it’s working well only with thread safe Apache’s...

Yesterday I have problem with fglrx witch cause ugly system reset. After that, one of my drives was marked as failed in RAID5 array. Hotspare was automatically used to rebuild array. But this hotspare is the oldest and slowest drive I’ve got… After rebuild I’ve tested failed drive and it was fine - no bad block, no...

I was configuring GlusterFS on few servers using Ansible external link and have a need to update /etc/hosts with hostnames for easier configuration. I found this1 one working: - name: Update /etc/hosts lineinfile: dest=/etc/hosts regexp='.*{{item}}$' line='{{hostvars.{{item}}.ansible_default_ipv4.address}} {{item}}'...