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Too long without programming
I wanted to get back to programming and thus I bought a Raspberry Pi.
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Comments blocked on Magical World
Today I took the decision to block all comments on Magical World. Spammers are currently flooding the blog with spam which are filling up our backend database (it is a small and cheap hosting service). Although all spam are captured by our spam filter, we end up with our hosting service provider blocking SQL insert…
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How to verify your Synology NAS hard disks
This article explains for Synology NAS how to find out the device of a particular filesystem in order to perform a verification (fsck) and how to setup the box so that such a verification can be performed.
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What is PSS memory?
PSS is the amount of RAM actually mapped into the process, but weighted by the amount it is shared across processes.
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OS X unstability, Mavericks is just unfinished!
Rant against Apple poor professionalism when it comes to software and especially OS X support!
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How to revert phone encryption on Android
Reverting encryption on Android is as simple as backing it up, factory resetting it and restoring the backup. Well, that’s the theory and this article will describe in a step-by-step approach how to really do it.
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The State of Retina Displays
A good external screen is a better investment than a retina display, at least for now. Even to show case your photos!
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App security is really low
Web browsers have had since ages a small lock to tell their users when they were securely connected to a web server. Apps, especially those for mobiles, do not expose this information. It is very difficult to know if they use proper encryption, or that they even check the validity of the encryption certificates (when…
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Mobile Security, Not Realy Usable, Not Really Secure
Yesterday I stumble upon a journalist opinion who think that current Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Mayer, is just a twerp when it comes to mobile security. I do not think we should qualify someone, even the CEO of an internet company like Yahoo!, of a twerp just because one does not use a pass-lock for its…
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Rather than increased register size, it is the modernised ARM architecture for its 64-bit line which helps boost performances.