Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
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The EFF has written a post, why you should bother about the NSA – even if you got nothing to hide.
Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python
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This book is aimed at people who have no experience programming or with cryptography. The book goes through writing Python programs that not only implement several ciphers but also can hack these ciphers.
Your Handy Interactive Color Wheel
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Use the free Color Calculator to explore creative color options for your design project. Simply pick your base color(s), choose a color harmony, tweak/explore as needed, and see results.
New software project: Icinga to go
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My latest software development project is called Icinga to go. It offers a reduced user interface for Icinga and Nagios, which are great tools to monitor your network and services.
dynnodednsserver
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Since there is no free (as in beer) provider of the good old DynDNS service, I accepted the challenge to build my own service based on node.js.
Item reservation for Drupal 7.x-2.0
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An upgrade of my Drupal module for item reservation has been released.
Drupal 7: delete orphaned comment data
These commands will delete records from the tables field_data_comment_body and field_data_revision_comment_body, so be advised to make a backup first!
DELETE t1.*
FROM field_data_comment_body t1
LEFT JOIN comment t2 ON t1.entity_id = t2.cid
WHERE t2.cid IS NULL
DELETE t1.*
FROM field_revision_comment_body t1
LEFT JOIN comment t2 ON t1.entity_id = t2.cid
WHERE t2.cid IS NULL
OPTIMIZE TABLE `field_data_comment_body` ,
`field_revision_comment_body`2 clicks to privacy
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Heise has developed a solution to provide more privacy to users of social networks: http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html 
To use this script with Drupal, there is the module »Social share privacy«: http://drupal.org/project/socialshareprivacy
Ratings deleted
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The tips on this page can be rated with the fivestar widget. It now happend that more and more entries got a very bad rating. As a result, the list of good rated articles on the front page shortened and became just on entry.