Oldest traces of civilization found in Saxony - take that, Egypt! (but of all places, Saxony?)
Archive 13. June 2005
The Fight Against Free Speech
In the process against Alvar Freude the regional court is about to announce its verdict. Let's hope the judges see through the nonsense the prosecution is building up and give them a clear rejection. Because if this nonsense gets through, we will soon really have reason to cry censorship - and the reason won't be petty deleted comments on blogs, but the actual ban on reporting about blocking orders (and thus active censorship measures) by the state.
RSS Language and WordPress
If you're as annoyed as I am that WordPress always claims the language in feeds is 'en' instead of 'de', and you've looked for the corresponding setting in the options: forget it, the WordPress developers have provided the option but not the GUI to set it. Rarely stupid.
Well, you can set it quite easily in a MySQL shell:
update wp_options
set option_value = 'de'
where option_name = 'rss_language'
Or alternatively with PHPMyAdmin or similar tools, simply find the corresponding data record and then patch the option_value field. It would be nicer if WordPress had made it possible to set this via the admin interface ...
Triple XXX
But it was just a Corvette! I want the stuff in here!
Tunnelblick - GUI for OpenVPN on the Mac
Tunnelblick is a graphical user interface for OpenVPN on the Mac. The great thing: the latest installers come with OpenVPN included. So if you have OpenVPN running as infrastructure and also need to integrate Macs – it's now easier than ever before. And considering the fact that OpenVPN is one of the nicest open source VPN solutions, it's worth taking a look even if you're still considering which VPN solution to go with.