by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. | Jul 21, 2014 | Geek stuff
Last weekend, the website of a popular German WordPress community has been hacked. The owner of the site asked for help via the official Facebook fanpage. It was on a Saturday afternoon, it was hot outside, the best possible weather to spend time at the pool or lake...
by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. | Jan 13, 2014 | Geek stuff
As you might have noticed when visiting this page, website visitors who are surfing the web with the Safari web browser on Mac OS Mavericks are asked whether they want to receive notifications on future page updates. If you belong to this user group and opt-in for...
by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog
I have been made aware this week that 2checkout, a very popular payment processor, is no longer processing payments inside the United States, incurring foreign fees for US customers. 2checkout has moved its processing centers outside the US, to Ireland, Germany,...
by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. | Nov 26, 2010 | Geek stuff
Last week one of our customers hired a new webmaster. The new webmaster noticed that one of the dedicated IP addresses assigned to his virtual private server was listed on ips.backscatterer.org. Of course, the first thing you probably do when you find out that you are...
by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. | Nov 17, 2010 | Geek stuff
Google recently released mod_pagespeed under an Open Source license. The purpose of this module for the Apache webserver is to optimize content that is delivered by Apache to the end user. You may want to raise your voice at this point and claim that you are already...
by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. | Mar 18, 2010 | Geek stuff
Our funniest customer ever is Vincent Navarino. He runs his own blog. It is always a pleasure for me to read his tickets. Here is an excerpt: Heya Sascha! I have 3-4 domain names I’m not using right now but 2 are up for renewal the 8th of next month and I want...