digital self defense and everything IT
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Browser detection on the verge of IE6’s death
Internet Explorer 6 is on the verge of death. Google will phase out support of this old fellow very soon. FINALLY I might add. While they will invite IE6 users to install Chrome, Firefox or some other modern browser, other websites redirect old browsers to their mobile sites. So it is important to minimize false…
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Deutschland und Amazon AWS (aktualisiert)
Wer sich dafür interessiert, Amazon Web Services (AWS) zu nutzen, beispielsweise Elastic Computing (EC2), Cloudfront oder S3, sollte eines wissen: Es gibt keine vorsteuerabzugsfähigen Rechnungen von “Amazon Web Services LLC”. Rumms! Das sitzt… Laut Aussage meines Steuerberaters wäre dafür ein Hinweis auf § 13b UStG oder “reverse charge” nötig. Ich habe keine große Hoffnung, dass…
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Thunderbird 3.0.1 and Lightning… they did it again
Trouble using the latest Thunderbird 3.0.1 with Lightning? Fear not, use a nightly build.
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“Why is my browser so slow?”
Every now and then people complain about their web browser being slow. The conversation usually goes like this: Me: Ok which browser are you using and which version? Customer: Firefox 3.5 Me: Ok which plugins did you install? Customer: Adblocker, Noscript, FoxyProxy, HTML validator, Firebug, Google Speed, SkipScreen, FireFTP, WeatherBug, Fireshot. Ah yes and TwitterBar.…
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Serious security issue in OneFileCMS 1.1.0
Serious security issue in OneFileCMS 1.1.0!
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Public DNS
OpenNIC has some decent public DNS resolvers available. I think I will use one of them and Google’s 8.8.8.8 as a backup.