Archive for the ‘Fixed’ Category

Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Just a quick note, just in case someone else sees this message. I got this error this morning when I logged in as a non-root user on a Slackware server I'd upgraded yesterday. In an act of blind faith, I used 'slackpkg upgrade-all', and then the fun began. Incidentally, if you're ...

osCommerce shipping modules: Pos Laju, Pos Malaysia Air Parcel

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Just updated these two shipping modules to fix a problem introduced by Pos Malaysia - a change of URL for the postage rates calculator. No change to the calculator, just to the URL. If you're Pos Malaysia's web programmer (or you know Pos Malaysia's web programmer) can you do me ...

Writing a search engine widget for firefox / IE7

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I had been wondering how difficult it would be to make a search engine widget for spider.my - there's so much important stuff yet to be done, but I got distracted by the gloss! The great news is - very easy! You can visit spider.my now and add its search ...

Search suggestions with MYSQL Levenshtein distance

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Up until a couple of days ago, the Spider.my search page applied only minimal formatting to hits, and no extra page decoration. The 'blank screen of death' appeared for a search miss: no results, no page content. Just to reassure the user the empty page was 'normal', I'd put a lame ...

Ethernet card problem - ‘eth2_rena’

Friday, July 18th, 2008

This is the sort of problem I expect that only happens to people who muck about with already working kit. Another evening spent regretting ever shutting down a running system 'for just a few minutes while I add some hardware'. I run a few websites on a Dell PowerEdge SC440 tower ...