Choosing a Wiki script for my site
For quite some time now I’ve had a wish to use a simple wiki for some of my sites. I think the wiki concert is great and it proved in practice as well. When I was travelling to China in 2006 I’ve set up a simple wiki (RoWiki by Marc Rohlfing) on my home server to stay in contact with home. I wanted to achieve that I don’t have to write e-mails to each and everyone interested, but also stay in contact with things at home. That’s why wiki technology was perfect for my needs. I chose RoWiki because it was based on PHP, it had only one file and it used file system to save data. It wasn’t perfect, but it had everything I needed. The thing worked like a charm, everything went ok and I didn’t spend too much time on line but everyone could know where I was (and vice versa).
When I returned from my trip I received several more requests to set up similar sites for travel notes for my friends. In the mean time I have also added some functionalities to RoWiki that I thought were missing, above all connected to formatting and display of Slovenian characters.
RoWiki is not developed any more, which I regret. It’s still available for download on the Maintained by no one site. There were some tries to add it to Google Code as R1Wiki (the page seems to be 403 forbidden now, I don’t know the reason for this), there are many versions of a wiki that evolved from it (TigerWiki, LionWiki, WiiKiss,…), but in my opinion RoWiki (with my additions included, of course 
was the greatest.
In one of the next posts I’ll explain how I chose my wiki now, after several years and with additional request in mind, including privacy, SEO and simplicity.
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Marcaria is temporarily down
Marcaria, a domain name registration service provider, that I just used to register my new .at domain fastbooks.at, is down. I have registered this domain name yesterday to create a book shop for German speaking customers. I received the e-mail that the domain is registered, but as I wanted to chanhe the name servers to point to my provider, the site didn’t respond. At the time of writing this the site seems to be down at least for an hour now.
I chose this company because of good prices and good customer support, but I hope this downtime is an exceptional exception and not a common day at work.
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‘File is corrupt’ error while installing Firefox
Today I have tried to install a new version of Firefox to my girlfriends Asus EEE that I already wrote about. I downloaded the latest version FF 3.6.6 setup file from Mozilla site and tried to run it on Windows 7. I was surprised when I got the error message while extracting files that the ‘file is corrupt’. I couldn’t continue, so I tried several things that didn’t help at all: re-downloaded the file, downloaded the file from Chrome, downloaded the preview version of FF40b2pre, downloaded the file from Snapfiles… After that I decided that this is weird and have downloaded the file to my Win XP machine, put it on my USB key and carried it to the EEE. The file was still corrupt to my surprise (that ment that Windows 7 are not weird), so I started an investigation of my own.
I downloaded the file several times from the same source. The file size was the same, but comparing the files by content revealed some differences. How could this be possible? I have restarted my Netgear router, restarted my cable modem, tried to connect directly to the modem but this didn’t help. I have read several forums – many people have had the same problem but there seemed to be no solutions. All the suggestions were directed in the anti virus software, but since I don’t believe in that and don’t use it this couldn’t be the case. I have read the forums further and have discovered…
…SPI or stateful packet inspection that my Netgear router WGR614v6 does. I have read a few things about it and it seemed ok to turn it off.
I have restarted the router and tried downloading the files again. This time they were identical! I am using this router for several years now and this was the first time this has happened. I’m not sure why, or what caused it now, but I’d sure like to know more about it.
The ‘file is corrupt’ error while installing Firefox is now gone, so I can continue on my tasks and thank the web again for helping me solve my (or computer’s) problems.
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