Kijk waar m’n (camera-)oog deze avond in het station van Lokeren zo maar op viel;
Quickie
blogposts op blog.futtta.be die -tegen mijn natuur in- snel-snel-snel de wereld ingestuurd zijn.
De terugkeer van “Het Journaal”, nu op Android
Een snelle plug voor de actualiteitsfreaks; Johan Cloetens heeft een gratis app op de Google Play Store om “Het Journaal” op een Android smartphone te bekijken. De terugkeer van het VRT nieuws voor mij, eigenlijk. Want het televisiejournaal op TV bekijken, dat komt er al lang niet meer van. Great stuff!
New Samsung firmware fixes nasty ICS Exchange bug
Last Friday I downloaded the newest official ROM from Samsung for my Galaxy SII from SamMobile.com and flashed it. I had no time over the weekend, but I just now deactivated the workaround solution I found on xda-developers and did some tests with meeting invitation responses and read receipts and I’m glad to confirm that I9100XWLPD indeed seems to solve the “connection error”-bug which ruined my initial Ice Cream Samsung experience. Yay!
DDOS’ed by 80legs.com spider?
Just got some heavy traffic from a friggin’ spider with this useragent:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; 008/0.83; http://www.80legs.com/webcrawler.html) Gecko/2008032620
As changing robots.txt did not help immediately, more drastic measures were needed, so I added this tidbit to .htaccess to stop the fuckers:
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(80legs) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
Deny from env=HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
And now back to me just relaxing and having a bath! 😉
The bulleted WP YouTube Lyte bulletin
It’s been a while since my last “state of WP YouTube Lyte” post, so here are the most important tidbits since;
- we’re at version 0.6.2 now, with at least one change ready for what might become 0.6.3
- the “major” new feature in 0.6.x; support for widgets (3 sizes to choose from)
- it has been downloaded 6.361 times up until now (cumulative for all versions)
- “25 Free YouTube WordPress plugins” on earnblogger.com mentioned it
- “10 Beautiful HTML5 Video & Audio Players for WordPress” on wpmu.org (not affiliated with Automattic though) did as well
Feedback is welcome; see info in the FAQ for bug reports/ feature requests and feel free to rate and/or report on compatibility on wordpress.org.
And as befits a post about WP YouTube Lyte on a Friday afternoon, here’s a little YouTube from Gold Panda you can start your weekend with;
Op de trein, bijna thuis
Dinsdagavond, iets na 5. Ik zit op de trein, de oortjes galmen Radiohead en het schemert binnen en buiten. Nog even en ik ontsnap aan deze TL-verlichte trein die met de welgemeende excuses van de conducteur door de eerste najaars-donkerte gefrustreerd achter een piekuurtrein tjokt. Bijna thuis, gelukkig, maar nu nog even genieten van deze aangenaam onaangename vervreemding.
![[720p] Radiohead - Prague 2009 [Full Concert]](https://blog.futtta.be/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FnzKHJkA8keg%2F0.jpg)
More power to the reader with RSS and mail-subscriptions
As I’m a self-confessed believer in the power of RSS and as this blog is both about web technology (written in English) and more personal stuff (in Dutch), I’ve decided to offer separate RSS-feeds for these two categories. Moreover I’ve also enabled mail-subscriptions in Feedburner., so if you want you can receive my ramblings by mail.
That means that from now on you have these subscription-links to choose from:
- Web technology RSS feed or via mail (English)
- More personal blog-posts via RSS or in your mailbox (Dutch)
- Everything in its bi-lingual place, be it the default RSS or mail
I’ve thought about publishing to a Facebook-page and Twitter as well, but that just seems so … over the top, no?
Fire and Fox don’t make no Firefox
Apparently the Firefox-brand is that strong that some want to be associated with it. But I’m not sure Mozilla (the not-for-profit or the corp) is fine with the blatant … “re-use” of their artwork.
The irony; Fox security offers fire- & theft-detection. But never mind, we’ve got Firefox 4 (beta7) to look forward to, haven’t we?
Fixed GPS-location in VillainRom
Did your HTC Hero get lost somewhere along the way, unable to fix GPS-location after upgrading to VillainRom, FroydVillan or another Hero ROM? The solution, which is mentioned in the hilarious release-notes for FroydVillain 1.5, is as simple as it is obscure; go to Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile networtks -> Access Point Names, click on the selected APN there, go to APN type (the last item in the list) and change the value to “default,supl”. I rebooted (with GPS on, didn’t want to jinx things) and voila, I’ll never get lost again.