[Wed Dec 23 15:41:01 CST 2015]

So, for a while now, I had an app stuck on my iPad. It was the IMDB app. A few weeks back, I proceeded to update it via the App Store, but something failed and it showed a grayed out icon with the word "Installing" underneath. No matter what I did, it wouldn't get out of that situation. The app itself wouldn't start. Attempting to fix it from the App Store did not work either. Finally, trying to remove the app using the regular procedure didn't work either. So, what to do? In the end, the only way to get out of that situation was go to the Settings, select General, then Storage & iCloud Usage, then Manage Storage, look for the app, select it and, finally, select Delete App. Now the IMDB app is finally gone. However, the icon for the App Store still shows a number one indicating that there is one app that could be updated, even though in reality there is none. This happened even after I reseted the tablet. Oh, well. I'm hoping it will eventually go away by itself. {link to this entry}

[Mon Dec 14 16:16:48 CST 2015]

Here is a tip that may prove useful to other people too. I recently had to use SSH to log into a system running a very old version of Red Hat Linux (yes, I did say "Red Hat Linux", not RHEL; it's not a mistake), and it didn't let me do it due to a mismatch between the version of the SSH protocol running on the server (version 1) and the one running on the client (version 2). In order to avoid this problem, simply edit the file ~/.ssh/config on the client to add the following lines:

Host myhost
Hostname myhost.mydomain.com
Protocol 2,1

Obviously, replace "myhost" and "myhost.mydomain.com" with the correct information for the remote server. {link to this entry}