Category: techie

Overall, setting up a Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux dual boot on the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA 802 was a breeze.

Some observations about this desktop:

• So QUIET! It ranges from 10 dB (extremely quiet) to 30 dB (quiet room – my EeePc 901’s fan are this quiet), and you can sleep with it on. The internal HDD does not make any noise.
• Surprisingly, the bundled mouse and keyboard’s USB receiver seems to work natively with the computer, regardless of whether it’s the command prompt, Linux, or whatever. Nice.
• When I saw the 2.5 dual HDD were 5400 RPM I thought of getting an Intel 25M 80G SSD but so far it runs pretty well and SSDs may see drastic price drops over the next few years so I’m postponing that a year or two.

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I stripped down GOS’s excellent how-to on using javascript to display a custom message instead of sending users to the unfriendly-looking Google Spreadsheet Forms confirmation page. The simplified code follows:


function custommsg()
{
document.getElementById("form-message").style.display="";
document.getElementById("form-message").innerHTML="THANK YOU MESSAGE HERE";
}

On Windows XP, I had converted 150 low-resolution (160×120, 10fps) Quicktime MOV files to FLV files, and was trying to upload them through FTP using FileZilla 3.1.2

One of the files somehow had unicode characters inside the filename: “07-82.mov07-82.flv”, which produced the below error:

08:37:40 Status: Starting upload of D:docsGoogle Talk Received Filesvideos07-82.mov07-82.flv
(bla bla)
08:38:25 Command: STOR 07-82.mov07-82.flv
08:38:25 Error: Failed to convert command to 8 bit charset

The error was solved by renaming the file to plain ASCII.

MediaWiki’s Cite Extension Reflist, normally pulled with the tag, was invisible to anon users, while visible to registered users. The source showed this:

I had the below issue, which was solved by:

1. postalias /etc/aliases
2. /etc/init.d/postfix restart

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
Date: Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
To: krcla.org@gmail.com

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

LISTNAME@DOMAIN

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (state 14). (more…)

This combo works without any core file modifications:

MediaWiki 1.12.1
http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.1.tar.gz

FCK Editor Nightly Build as of 10/16/08 7:30 AM PDT
http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/nightly/svn/mediawiki_fckeditor_ext_N.tar.gz

This combo didn’t work – when clicking “edit” the screen turned white

svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3
svn checkout http://svn.fckeditor.net/MediaWiki/trunk FCKeditor
wget http://www.fckeditor.net/nightly/FCKeditor_N.zip

From a couple of weeks ago, my browsers have been acting up and showing meaningless strings of text on top of the web page or simply did not load the page at all and instead filled the screen with the texts. At first, I thought it was Google-related pages. such as gMail and Google Calendar, but it seems to affect a broader range of pages, such as MSN and Flickr. Some screenshots:

Google Calendar on IE7

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BlueHost is growing very fast, and part of that are periodic mass downtimes of various servers, including the PHP5 Box 150. As gleaned from the Excel Sheet below, BlueHost has been growing on an average rate of 400 domains a day. It’s kept this pace more or less since September of 2005, which is when it started publishing hosted domain names. (Past data was obtained from archive.org)

With its 300,000 domains as advertised on its front page, BlueHost may be making as much as $2m a month. Or possibly less, if most accounts happen to use the multiple add-on option, and BlueHost counts this as “another domain”. Matt, do the numbers of 300,000 correspond to domains (including add-ons) or accounts?

CHIRLA just went from the old plain HTML

to this: (CivicSpace powered).

Someone in the staff is very, very adventurous.

[Tags]civicspace, website design, content management software[/Tags]

WordPress 2 (the pseudo official version.. not RC, available under /downloads, but unannounced as of yet under /blog ) bugs/malfunctionings found so far:

1. When clicking previously saved draft posts, the screen moves automatically to /text/?p=POSTID which obviously doesn’t exist yet, and so it shows an error message.
2. The new permalinks structure (neat small .htaccess!) seems to be unable to process nested categories as independent categories. Previously, all /de /en /cr /es , all nests of /a (as in ( /c/a/en ) were accessible at /c/en , which now returns There is no “” category (which is funny, as it should at the least show “there is no “en” category”) but they are now only accessible under the logically correct (/c/a/en ) category permalink.