Recently we bought a new monitor. It’s 17” LCD monitor Samsung 740N. I made a comparison between HP L1702, Sony SDM-HS75, IBM ThinkVision L171 and Samsung 740N. As result I chose Samsung because it has very good characteristics: 600:1 contrast ratio 300cd/m2 brightness 160/160 degree viewing angle 8 MS response time Also, I bought and installed a new hard drive because I’m going to use […]
My new hobby
I go in for a new hobby – smart home. This is a modern open source conception to control household appliances, audio/video stuff, telephony and other home elecric stuff based on Linux. As I already said currently it’s just a hobby but who knows maybe later it’ll be my primary work. In this category I’m going to post some intersting news about smart home technologies […]
Google Analytics is growing
I created profile for my blog on Google Analytics last year. I’m satisfied with this tool. I can see anything I want regarding to the blog activity. But there wasn’t possibility to add another site because I suppose the load on Google resources was very big. But yesterday I noticed link ‘Add New Profile’ and message about possibility to add for accumulate statistics up 5 […]
New theme for admin area
I decided to change defaul theme for admin area of my WP blog. After trying two or three different themes I installed WP Tiger theme produced by Steve Smith. It looks very nice (much better than default) and has handy layout. WP Tiger is very simple install. But I faced with a small problem. After unpack and copy plugin folder to the WP plugins I […]
Spam Karma 2 in action
The big number of spam comments in my Nucleus blog was the last straw to move to WordPress. WordPress has an effective mechanism to filter spam: approval comments or permit to add comment only for registered users. Also, there are existing different plugins for this purpose. I used the first approach and I was enough for me till spammers became much more intense last week. […]
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My new mobile phone
As New Year present I got a new mobile phone – Sony Ericsson K700i! It’s a serious device with many useful and fun features. It also has nice desigh, graphic user interface and excellent poliphony! I didn’t get accustomed to it (I found how to manually lock phone only using documentation 🙂 ) because I had before only Siemens mobiles: c25, m35 and c62. I’d […]
Be careful with new plugins!
At the end of last year Lev noticed me that his RSS reader couldn’t get my RSS feeds. I though it was problem with his reader and didn’t do anything. But today I tried to see my RSS and got this error: XML Parsing Error: XML declaration not at start of external entity Location: http://www.stepanoff.org/wordpress/feed/rss2 Line Number 2, Column 1:< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ^ I […]