I am more a web developer than an administrator. But from time to time I have to take care of my colleagues PCs. A very common task is to install or update programs. As most of the users don’t have administrative rights I have to do these things as admin.
At the beginning of my admin career I used to sign of the users because I didn’t know how to start programs as admin. But now I learned to right click a program and choose “Run as…” to start an installation as administrator.
Some time ago Google announced to discontinue the support of Internet Explorer 6.0 for most of his services. Now they have announced a date for that discontinue. The day we are waiting for is March 13, 2010. I couldn’t find out if users of Internet Explorer 6.0 will then be able to use the services.
As I mentioned in the post Internet Explorer 6 unter Windows 7 nutzen mit dem Windows XP Mode I still have a running Version of IE6 on my laptop. So as soon as the day has come, I’ll report about the usage of the services with IE6. On the YouTube home page users can find a notice about updating their browsers:
(Deutsch) Ich bekam heute in einem Kommentar die Frage gestellt, ob mein Zeilen-Duplizierer aus dem Beitrag: Einfacher Zeilen-Duplizierer mit Prototype auch auf Feldern funktioniert, die die Scriptaculous Ajax.AutoCompleter Funktion verwenden.
Ich nutze den Duplizierer selbst in einem Formular, das solche Felder enthält. Meine erste Fassung entsprach dabei dem Einzeiler aus dem vorherigen Beitrag. Das Problem dabei ist allerdings, dass die AutoCompleter Funktion beim Erzeugen mit dem Felder verknüpft wird, auf das sie angewendet werden soll. Wenn man nun dieses Feld kopiert wird nicht eine neue Instanz des Ajax.AutoCompleter erzeugt, sondern die Referenz auf das alte Feld mit kopiert. Ein Eintrag im neu erzeugten Feld aktiviert also die AutoCompleter Funktion des vorherigen Feldes.
In the post Setting up the Plesk Backup Manager on a 1&1 Linux Root Server I explained how to set up the backup mechanism in Plesk. But using this setup I ran into really big trouble.
As a backup of my domain has more than 20GB and the 1&1 backup FTP server only has 250GB capacity, it could only store 10 backup. As soon as the FTP backup server was full, the backups will be stored on the web server. But that was fatal because then there will be soon no more space left on the web server. In worst case that means that the MySQL database can’t create a temporary table which means that your server could not request the client responses. So in short: Your server doesn’t work anymore.
The year 2009 with it’s many trends is over. Even online projects like Twitter, Google Wave and Co. has been used or will be used by many people.
I am excited to see, which trends we will have in 2010. Will HTML5 or CSS3 finaly be finished. I guess not. But we will definitly have some surprises in 2010.
I will try to fetch up some of the upcoming trends and I also try to give you some new thought-provoking impulses. I wish you all a lot of fun with my blog in the next year.
Cheers, yours
Kau-Boy
Installing the Win7 system on my ThinkPad, I had a problem, that many users will have switching from a Windows system with only 32bit. Connecting the network in my university and in my office, I need to establish a Cisco VPN connection. But unfortunately there is no Cisco VPN Client in a 64bit version for Windows 7 in the x64 version. Only for Windows XP, a Cisco Client is available.
After searching through some forums, I found various solutions for this issue. Some mentioned the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client. But this Client doesn’t support PCF profiles. But as I couldn’t wait for my university to offer an AnyConnect support, I needed another solution.
Last weekend I succeeded to move my domain kau-boys.de to my ROOT server. Before doing so I used a frame redirect for this domain. But with a little extra fee and waiting for the term of notice I can now present you the blog with the desired domain.
All external links should still be working correctly as they are rewrited to the new domain. Therefore all of your bookmarks should still work. I hope that Google will soon recognize the moving of the domain and updates it’s results.
I hope that I will be able to provide you more regularly with useful tips in the future. At the moment my master study takes a lot of time and I don’t have the time to do something fun. And beside study I has to work a little as studying isn’t for free.
Now I wish you a lot of fun with my blog!
Bernhard
@My english readers: I am sorry that most of the last posts haven’t been translated, yet. Some of them are only interessting for German readers. And I don’t had the time to translate the longer ones, yet.
Some of you might not know, what this title means. But today the two internet organizations WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has agreed to a consitent name for the next HTML version.
The W3C used the spelling with a space and the WHATWG the spelling without the space. After the news has been published in some forums and news sites, the German Wikipedia article has been changed at 13:43 and even the W3C has updated his specification to HTML5.
For some of you, this might not be a big news, but now we finally know, how to write HTML5 correctly. I think the spelling without a space is more consequent, as e.g. CSS3 also has no space. But in the field of markup languages we still have XHTML 1.0 and others, which would look strange without a space. I still grieve for XHTML 2.0 which will no longer be focued on, in favor of HTML5. But I hope that the web developer will learn to write valid code using HTML5 in the future.
What do you think about it? Is this really a news, or do you think the W3C should focus on real issues? I would like them to complete the spedification for CCS3 so we can use nice things like border-radius or shadows.
Yesterday I found a relly cool functionality in my laptop BIOS. Everyone of you might know the problem, that the USB ports of laptops doesn’t provide a power supply. So I can’t charge my mouse battery or my MP3 player when the laptop is switched off.
I do have a cool 220V USB adapter, but I don’t take it with me all the time. But now I found this mentioned functionality in the BIOS that enables you to do that. The first problem was to figure out how to access the BIOS. As I administrate a lot of PCs and I even earned a lot over the years, I always forget which F-Key to press on which PC (or the Delete-Key).
On a server I have to administrate, I had some problems to set up the Backup Manager through the Plesk Panel. So I decided to write a small tutorial on how to set up the Backup Manager on a 1&1 Dedicated Server Linux. But it might the the same on many other servers as well.
The 1&1 Server uses Plesk version 9.2. The first step is to logon to the Plesk Panel. On the “Home” page you should find a button for the Backup Manager in the Server section:
