An interesting article about basic Linux security, “hardening a linux server in 10 minutes”, which basically takes the same approach many articles about Windows performance tuning takes; disable services and connections you don’t need. Keep open ports, running services, etc. down to what is required, …
Regardless of the outcome of today’s finals in the Olympic Ice Hockey competition between Finland and Sweden, this has to be considered one of the most successful Olympic Games seen with Swedish eyes; if the number of medals is a measurement for such success. Something …
An “interesting” article on VH1 concludes that “something” is up with Axl. Well, those of us who wonder already know something is up with Axl. The question is, what is it this time? I want to see the “new album” released as much as anyone …
Being located in Sweden, I want all dates in all applications to be displayed according to the Swedish date format, which is YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2006-02-26 for 26-Feb-2006). This is typically not a problem, if you’re willing to switch everything else over to Swedish also, and/or …
Having watched the Swedish Ice Hockey ladies advance to the finals after a 4-2 victory against the US, I was thinking about the irony of some of the other events of today’s competitions. The women’s combination downhill race was cancelled due to severe weather (that …
Happy 6th Birthday Alexander! It’s hard to believe I held you in my arms six years ago as a newborn, looking at your tiny hands and thinking that this is the greatest thing ever.. only to realize that watching you grow up is an even …
I’ve been using the JoomlaFCK-mambot (or is it “jombot”?) for a while now and am mostly pleased with it. At least when comparing it to the alternatives. There are, however, some problems with the default configuration of JoomlaFCK. One default behavior in particular causes the …
It’s not often that I consider so-called “hot new artists” to be anything remotely related to “hot” (in the musical sense). But the fact of the matter is that I am a little bit curious about Swedish Idol 2005 runner-up Sebastian Karlsson’s debut album, “Do …
Old news for many I suppose, but I just ran across www.howtoforge.com, which among other things had a nice article on Chroot:ing SSH. Wouldn’t it be nice if one could collect “all” how-to:s in one place?! 😉 Later: Colin Turner pointed out that there’s The …
Yaay; I finally did it! I went ahead and deleted one of my IM-accounts.. whooohoo! 🙂 Oh, sorry – just had to get that off my chest. No more MSN/Hotmail for me. So let’s see.. now it’s down to Skype, Yahoo, and ICQ. I only …