It seems I had to make the switch away from seamonkey. Firefox for now, but I will consider palemoon again. Anyhow, revisiting my browsing & addon habits, I re-discovered this thread and the uMatrix addon - I am amazed! It can replace NoScript, my beloved but unavailable RequestPolicy, a Cookie .....

Muurola is close to Rovaniemi, the capital of the Finnish part of Lapland. The library there will be celebrating their 20th Linux anniversary on Thursday, May 2nd at 6pm. I just got this info from a friendly person living up there and am happy to pass it on: I am wondering if you have any contacts .....

This article concentrates on setting up a calendar server on an already running nginx server and importing existing content into the newly created empty calendar / address book, ready for syncing across devices. Initial situation I rely a lot on my digital calendar, but currently it resides on my un.....

This site is also viewable encrypted through https. I finally decided to shell out some real money for this, so for the next two years there's no snag. See here. There's a snag though: Browsers do not (by default) "trust" the certificate authority I'm using. Why not? Because this "trust" must be.....

Please don't ask me to consider anything else; I choose CAcert even though it isn't "trusted". But what use is trust that can be bought with $$$? CAcert are certainly trustworthy in my opinion. If you think so too you might want to import their root certificate from this page. I also wrote an artic.....

Three Hour Hobbit re-edit This is not news anymore, it has been moved from my old site. This article talks about two different projects, both editing all three Hobbit films into a single one. I cannot find the first version anymore; the blog is gone. It's possible that the movie's torrent is still .....

Since Version 4.2.0 GNU bash can print times in strftime format with printf. OK, the external date command can do a lot that bash's builtin cannot do, but for most use cases this is enough - and it's always better to use builtins, because if you're using bloated bash, at least take full advantage of.....

One day I ran my phone's battery down all the way to 0%, until it switched itself off. When I rebooted, of my hundreds of contacts only about a dozen were left (those stored on the SIM card I suspect). Of course my last backup was way too old, and I don't have any online accounts either. Ouch. But s.....