Author Archives: vorlon-MT

Comment Spam

By vorlon-MT | August 10, 2004

Back from vacation… and getting comment spam nearly daily at the moment I just installed MT-Blacklist which looks like a really nice plugin preventing spam using a regexp blacklist.

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CCC calls for a boycott of the music industry

By vorlon-MT | April 1, 2004

http://www.ccc.de/campaigns/boycott-musicindustry
Just had to put this one on here

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Been a while

By vorlon-MT | March 14, 2004

Been a while since I got to write the last time….
The Gentoo Installation didn’t last very long, because I lost the partitions probably because of some trouble with the new hard drive. I didn’t feel like trying it again yet and I have been kinda busy here lately…
Besides that I’ve been playing around with Gallery [...]

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Finally running Linux on my desktop computer….

By vorlon-MT | February 10, 2004

I finally switched to using Linux on my desktop pc… gentoo to be exact. Took me about a weekend to have the most important stuff set up, like GNOME, mozilla, tv and music apps etc. Right now it’s compiling OpenOffice.org, just like the last few hours

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Vorlon 1.1

By vorlon-MT | January 31, 2004

… now with glasses

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The coming end of Hubble

By vorlon-MT | January 20, 2004

The last service mission for the the Hubble Space Telescope has been cancelled, so it looks like its lifetime will be over in just a few years, before there will even be the next generation of space telescope up there. Whatever reasons – money, security,… – cause the final decision, it’s definately a big loss [...]

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XBONG

By vorlon-MT | January 9, 2004

Who would have thought XBONG stands for X-ray bright optically normal galaxy…

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Merry Christmas…

By vorlon-MT | December 23, 2003

Since I’m leaving over Christmas, not that it would make a difference for the Blog , I wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas and some nice holidays…

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Finally changed the front page template

By vorlon-MT | December 19, 2003

Finally got rid of the ESA news on the front page, which haven’t gotten any update for a long time, and changed the template, so that the last 5 entries are shown and not those of the last n days. That was just looking too empty

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Ooops…

By vorlon-MT | November 18, 2003

Now I haven’t been on my own blog for so long, that I didn’t even notice my Apache was misconfigured after updating and moving the directory… I should really invest a little bit more time into this again…

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