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13 years of Weblog: had to remove a 11 year old weblog post!

Last week I received an e-mail about a request to remove a weblog post from 2002 !

The post, about: ZigBee and Bluetooth was referring to Click Consult. Analysing it I saw that the PDF file it was linking to was receiving an Error 404 (it does not exist anymore).

So I removed it. One day later again the girl in the mail cause they found that I had it still on my MovableType export weblog. Damn I had to edit HTML now ..

So to have Click Consult to be in compliance with Google Webmaster guidelines I had to remove it .. uhmm Should I have charge them?

Plesk 11 issue with options FollowSymlinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off …..

I use a number of ‘open’ directories on my server for years, but I switched servers and updated Plesk to version 11.

Suddenly my open directories where not open anymore and no content was visible. In my error.log I find this error:

Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/index.pl

I searched the internet and I could not find a good solution other than that I had to change my dir.conf where is stated: DirectoryIndex at_domains_index.html index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm index.shtml index.cfm

I even changed my vhost configuration what did not work either, it might helped finding the solution, so I will check if my changed vhost.conf is necessary.

in the end: changing dir.conf with the line about the indexes was the solution. I had to remove to remove at least the perl (.pl) one.

I now have:

DirectoryIndex at_domains_index.html index.php index.html index.htm

restarted apache with: service apache2 restart and issue was resolved

Python vraagje: proxy gebruiken

 

Gezocht: Onderstaand gedeelte moet gebruik gaan maken van een proxy (IP adres en Port) maar wat ik ook probeer, ik krijg alleen maar een negatieve response terug. Dus ergens gaat er wat mis als ik er een ProxyHandler erbij wil voegen. Iemand een idee?

self.req = None
self.req = urllib2.Request(url)
self.req.add_header(“User-agent”, programma.USERAGENT)
self.connect()

elif autosub.Helpers.checkAPICalls(use=True):
self.req = None
self.req = urllib2.Request(url)
self.req.add_header(“User-agent”, programma.USERAGENT)
self.connect()

else:
log.error(“API: out of api calls”)
 
def connect(self):
import socket
socket.setdefaulttimeout(programma.TIMEOUT)
self.resp = urllib2.urlopen(self.req)
time.sleep(5) #Max 2 connections each second

Psst: We are still blogging !!

Wow .. just looked at Archive.org they archived AroundMyRoom since 2001 and WAUW .. every single entry I still have. Blogging more than 11 years and still keep blogging about things I enjoy.

Yesterday I installed Windows 8. And I am using it now .. Started in the IT when MS-DOS was exchanged for Windows 3.11 and where Windows 95 was a huge turn in how a PC was being used. Now with Windows 8 Microsoft tries it again. A totally different approach than before. I have to get used to that .. Change .. Change

I wonder how long I will keep on blogging. After 11 years the updates are not that much anymore, but hey, we do have Facebook now, we do have Twitter (did you know I do archive all my tweets myself and is part of this weblog !) and many other social things like Foursquare ..

Keep tracking this website, nice things are going to happen. Especially as I am watching Shark Tank now ;-)

Personal Achievements: Create a product what can win prices

Proud, proud to see that the product I have developed, (from idea to end (the whole product development )) finally wins a price in the category: Best Professional Storage Product. The Freecom SilverStore 2-Drive NAS wins over Promise, G-Tech, Synology and IOmega.. the MAC WORLD 2012 awards ..

Bummer …. and they had to let me go due to an internal reorganisation. I am Seeking a new job …. with this kind of achievement somebody must notice and see the potential not?

Okay what was my part in all of this:

Creating