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I recently thought my hosting provider “must have done something” because my Django site suddenly lost all style sheets and other static assets. The pages rendered but they looked bare-bones, and trying to load my site’s main CSS file (/static/css/site.css) produced a page not found error. After some research I noticed on https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/static-files/#configuring-static-files “During development, if […]
Background I recently needed to move from an old PC that had developed the click of death to a newer PC someone gave me for free—except that it was riddled with viruses and malware (spyware, adware, trojans, etc.). I’d have liked to wipe the new PC and put a fresh Windows XP copy on it, but […]
Modifying Mailman web templates to add search links, using Swish-E to generate archive search indexes, setting up swish’s CGI search and template files, and compiling the search CGI wrapper program (required due to web server security/permissions issues).
Installing a program to handle administrative commands sent by email (e.g., from a CGI script), including a few helper files needed by the handler, testing to check that the files were installed correctly, and some problems we encountered and solved.
It used to be the case, years ago, that passwords on Unix systems were limited to 8 characters. Or rather, you could type in more than 8 characters, but only the first 8 characters mattered. It occurred to me recently that by now, this limit must surely have been lifted, especially as Moore’s Law has […]