I noticed a few days ago that my Facebook XMPP chat account from Pidgin had stopped working, popping up a weird error message: “Not authorised”. This happened even though I did not change any of the account’s settings. The resolution is pretty Voodoo or, how Vlad described it, the error needs a Microsoft-type fix. Apparently
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Web feeds, as many of you surely know by now, represent a data format under which frequently updated content from various sources is provided to readers (the humans reading the content). The purpose of the web feed is therefore to inform the user of new or updated content originating from a source. Generally speaking web
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After enrolling to the University of Southampton Software Engineering MSc programme the iSolutions department (responsible with the IT infrastructure) provided me with an user account to be able to access all the facilities. The account also has an email address attached, which happens to be hosted by a Microsoft Exchange Server. And here the “conflict”
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Yesterday Oracle announced that it would sue Google over the use of Java on its Android platform. The net is screaming about this subject and most of the people commenting on it are defending Google. Although Google has its fair share of excellent contributions to the computing world, I do not think it’s fair to
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I have just seen the funniest and geekiest online video ever (via a buddy who sent me the link from the original site). Forget about Intel’s last advertising campaigns. Carefully watch the following one. DISCLAIMER: You must have some basic knowledge about Java, .NET, Microsoft, Linux and open-source. Otherwise you might fail to get the
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Yesterday I have updated the OS on my iPod Touch 2nd generation to the latest release: iOS4. Because I have an “outdated” model I cannot enjoy the most appealing new features: multitasking and custom home wallpapers. While I can live well without the latter, the former would have been tremendously useful. The UI has changed
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A great man once said: Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;) While it works for him, for us pure mortals this trick doesn’t get the job done. That’s why we have to use backups. Protecting your data is
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My move to HostGator was partly due to the fact that on my old host this blog got hacked. And judging by the impact, I suspect this was a server-side security breach because my DB was intact. Since then I’ve spent some time to secure my WP instance as much as I could given the
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From Sunday, April 25th, this blog is hosted by HostGator.com due to some problems I have had with my hosting provider from Romania. Therefore I am sorry for the hiccups and downtimes you might have experienced that day and until Monday evening EET (UTC-2). From now on the downloads available from my Codebin (codebin.cotescu.com) are
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