It may seem a little sad but I can honestly say that reading my access_log is far more interesting than any soap opera on TV; they are filled with exotic foreigners, futuristic robots, drama, intrigue and personal tragedy. The best thing about it is that it’s all real; these are (mostly) real people who stumble …
Blogs are fundamentally flawed for the typical Grandma-User Read More »
Horde is an application framework used by a web-based email client IMP I use to read my email. From the Horde site [www.horde.org]: The Horde Project is about creating high quality Open Source applications, based on PHP and the Horde Framework. The guiding principles of the Horde Project are to create solid standards-based applications using …
Having written my own WordPress logging / statistics plug-in over the weekend – which still in prototype, consider it a ‘coming soon’ – I have started to notice more and more peculiar User-Agents visiting my blog. I quite like to keep an eye on what spiders / bots visit my sites, how often they return …
‘NASA Search 1.0’ ??? Something Google should worry about ??? Read More »
FreeDB [www.freedb.org] is a free online CD-information database allowing applications to query the FreeDB server over the internet for disc & track titles. The database was built with user-submitted information; as such entries were being submitted in whatever default character set the submitting-user had. The problem arises when someone with a different default character set …
More for my own benefit, but here goes… This is an example of using MEncoder (Windows version) to convert a DVD to DivX. The original movie was widescreen and is being rescaled here to 720×408 to keep the 16:9 aspect ratio. The video bitrate I used was 1024kbit but you can tweak this as desired. …
Stumbled across this when trying to find out why my 16x DVD media wouldn’t burn at anything higher than 4x. Download your drive’s latest firmware, feed it into MediaCodeSpeedEdit and you can edit the burn speeds for all media the drive can recognise. Save the modified firmware and re-flash your drive with it. Pretty neat! …
MediaCodeSpeedEdit tool for DVD-Writers by ala42 Read More »
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I recently had to use the HTTP::Lite perl module and thought I would share an example of how to use it. HTTP::Lite was is available on www.cpan.org; its very lightweight and has no dependancies other than Socket & Fcntl which included with almost all Perl implementations by default. Based on the examples by the HTTP::Lite …
A quick and simple Velocimacro to generate HTML Select boxes and its Options; automatically selects the correct option based on the value given. You can place this #macro anywhere in your Velocity templates but I used my global VM_global_library.vm file. Code [code] #macro( generateSelectBox $name $options $value ) #foreach ( $option in $options ) #set( …
Velocimacro – Generate a HTML Select box and its Options Read More »
The code below will display the number of files open by the running process. It does this by getting the maximum file descriptor number and then iterating through each possible fd trying to do an ‘fstat’ on it. If errno returns anything other than EBADF ‘file descriptor is bad’ it increments a count. It is …
Determine the number of open files in your program (C/C++) Read More »