The-Web on Pesches Schlauch

Comments are Back

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Using Cactus Comments with Hugo and Tranquilpeak

Migration from Wordpress to Hugo

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

My blog is now built with Hugo and has a new look

https://pesche.schlau.ch

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:28:09 +0100

Thanks to Let's Encrypt this site offers now a SSL connection.

Got rid of Wordpress spam

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:55:54 +0200

I have finally updated to the latest version of Wordpress and detected several different spam attempts in my blog.

The index.php and wp-content/index.php files contained a couple of unwanted links (their size should be less than 100 bytes).
One of my posts had some invisible links added at its end. One to a chinese site, disguised with the unescape Javascript function and others hidden by setting the style to display: none.

schlau.ch in Vienna

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:04:34 +0200

Thomas Goetschi of team schlau.ch presented today the Plone solution for www.bern.ch at the Day 1 of the Plone Conference in Vienna.

Aerial Photos of Berne, Switzerland

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:07:25 +0200

Triggered by a Slashdot Story I tried to find the best aerial photo of my home town Berne. Here is what I've found so far:

Google Maps, not very detailed (linked from the Brad's UNESCO World Heritage map links page
map.search.ch, much more detailed, showing the "Bundeshaus"
The most detailed photos I found at the official town map site. When you choose "Orthofoto" from the "Darstellung" selection and go to the coordinates 600 420/199 550 you can see the fancy new plaza in front of the Bundeshaus at almost any scale (1:1000 works fine)

If you know of other photograph sources, please leave a comment.

Wordpress and new hosting provider

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:03:24 +0200

For some time now I wanted to change my weblog to a server based one. I did no extensive research, but what I read about WordPress made my try it first locally and then for good. So far I'm happy with it.

To get the nice permanent links (like http://pesche.schlau.ch/2005/04/14/wordpress-and-new-hosting-provider/), the web server (if it is an Apache httpd) has to support mod_rewrite. After some failed tries I mailed my hosting provider (hosttech.ch) if they could enable mod_rewrite. This is the answer I got:

Intelligent FTP upload with LFTP

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:36:17 +0100

Ever since I started my blog, I was looking for a neat solution to upload my internet pages whenever Nanoblogger updates the local copy.

I didn't want just a recursive upload, because some directories (e.g. data) shouldn't be publicly accessible. My first attempt was a script using ncftpput, but it always uploads the whole site.

I wanted a more intelligent solution that copies only new and changed files. This is presumably a very common tasks, there should be plenty of ways to achieve it. But almost all FTP clients capable of intelligent uploads involve some GUI. The only command line client I could find is lftp (available on OS X from Fink and from Darwinports).

In the lowercase "f"

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:03:01 +0100

The Firefox New York Times Ad is finally out (PDF or a smaller PNG); it took much longer than the German ad in the FAZ ;)

friend-of-a-friend

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:03:48 +0100

While reading an interview with Tim Berners-Lee concerning the Semantic Web, I stumbled for the second time in a couple of days over the friend of a friend project FOAF.

I don't know if FOAF has a future or if it is just another geek thing -- but I couldn't resist and generated my own FOAF description.

Creating a favicon.ico file with The Gimp

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:26:37 +0200

Because Gimp 2.0 doesn't support the Windows icon format yet, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X.

The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task:

ppmtowinicon is said to have problems with transparency
xpm2wico is not available as a Fink package
png2ico did the trick for me

Choosing a weblog software

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:28:52 +0200

I have evaluated a weblog software for a server without fancy options like CGI, Perl or PHP. I found BlogMax, Nanoblogger and Thingamablog and chose Nanoblogger for its Spring Theme and because it stores the entries in flat files.