“Document Freedom Day”: a day for celebrating information accessibility for all people everywhere and for raising awareness of open standards. The open software movement and the corporate desire for it to end is very much like the American Second Amendment “Gun Control” movement — Software Patents are not about software and Gun Control is not about guns, but both are about CONTROL. And it behooves us as a global community to promote freedom and oppose protectionism in whatever form it may appear.
Category: Technical
GoDaddy, MySQL, and the Time Zone Problem
I found a way to make your web site using PHP and MySQL apply time zone settings properly even if it is hosted by GoDaddy.com.
ClamScan Signature File Problem?
Suddenly clamscan (clamtk,clamav) finds it on every computer. Could be a virus that gets around well, or it could be a virus signature table defect. === ——-START FRESH CLAM UPDATE 20140306-024521 ——- === ClamAV update process started at Thu Mar 6 02:45:21 2014 DON’T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs:…
WordPress update problems
When we updated our site today the update routine said that wordpress.org was not responding. This involved an update to All in one SEO and to the Atahaulpa theme (our active theme was a child theme of Atahaulpa). As a result we lost our menus and headers. As you can see, until we resolve the problem…
Browser and Operating System Statistics as of November 24 in year 2013
Browser and Operating System Statistics from the jdnash.com series of web sites. Sites are mostly un-promoted and as such visitors are considered a random sample, most likely representative of current market conditions. This is useful for seeing which browser or os is currently most in use. Browsers used were 337,000 accesses from unnamed Mozilla compatible browsers, 308,000 from Safari-like, 193,000 from FireFox, 162,000 from Microsoft Internet Explorer in some form. Google Chrome is reported in the summary as part of the Safari stats. Adding up the lines in the Browser Detailed Report (below) that specifically state Chrome or Chromium there were around 99,500 accesses from a Google Chromium based browser.