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Archive for September, 2009

Today I tried to load a animated loading animation as a gif image into the Flash Player and discovered that he is not able to play them. It only shows the first frame.
My loading.gif:

loading.gif

So how to convert this gif animation into a swf file, which the Flash Player could play? (And of course I only want to use open source tools.) It was very easy: continue reading…

Just for fun I looked at the headers generated by website I made and where I am responsible for the administration of the Apache server I discovered this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:44:56 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.6
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Actually I think no one needs to know which PHP version is running on this machine and that there also a Subversion is running on that machine. Even the name of the operating system and the version of the Apache is not needed in most cases.

So how suppress these information?

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