Talking to the Folding@Home client interface
There are a number of ways to control the Folding@Home client. For me, one of the more useful things I can do by sending a command to the web client …
När man outsourcar sunt förnuft
Vid ett givet läge i en kris kan “omställningsplanen” aktiveras och snabbt fylla på förråd med nödvändiga produkter som skyddsutrustning och sjukvårdsmateriel. Likaså bör man regelbundet uppdatera en plan för att på relativt kort tid göra om större byggnader till “beredskapssjukhus”.
Stop bitching about having to “work from home”
To those of you who bitch about having to “work from home”, please take a deep breath, chew on some toilet paper, and consider that: There are people out there …
Trains, planes, and COVID-19
By grounding everything, the governments will need to hand out massive loans in an attempt to soften the blow to a rather large industry that has come to a complete halt. Why not use some of that money, and some of that capacity, for something we actually need: air transport
Stockholms Spelmuseum (“Games Museum”)
Stockholms Spelmuseum is well worth the visit. It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but the staff is friendly, knows their stuff and has a lot of retro-gaming stuff …
Forcing apt-get to use IPv4
When or if you run into trouble with apt-get and IPv6 connections timing out or not resolving properly at all, it may be a good idea to simply prevent apt-get …
Please use proper message headers (FFS)
Please don’t write code that generates e-mail messages if you are unable to read specifications. Thank you.
Using Thunderbird with Gmail and OAuth2
I’ve been using the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client for … a long time. Google has had a “Less secure apps” policy, where you explicitly have to enable a setting to …
Troubleshooting WordPress re-directs (301)
While trying to configure some internal URL re-writing in nginx for a WordPress site, I ran across an annoying issue: Regardless of my re-writing efforts, WordPress would issue a re-direct …
URL re-writing with nginx, PHP, and WordPress
There are many posts about nginx, re-directs, PHP, and WordPress. There are somewhat fewer posts that talk about (internal) re-writes, where the request by the web browser is mangled to …