Archive for the ‘FOSS’ Category
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
This problem was making me go blind! I'm testing Spinneret with ab at the moment, trying to make sure there's no disastrous behaviour under load. I found that ab just stopped after the first request if I used the -k switch. I'm not sure the problem is my fault, exactly, ...
Posted in Broken, Fixed, FOSS, software, Spinneret | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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So you're happily upgrading from Jaunty Jackalope to Karmic Kipper and there's a network problem. A brief, normally completely recoverable network hiccup. Update-manager complains that it was interrupted, and quits. Thinking nothing of it, you ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
These old shipping modules no longer work since Pos Malaysia's last website change in January 2011. I've replaced them all with a single shipping module that should give your customers a faster response, be more reliable and more flexible. See Shipping widget module page at spider.my and the original (now ...
Posted in FOSS, software | 3 Comments »
Monday, February 16th, 2009
DAP have a page devoted to an explanation of their logo, as it embodies some of their fundamental principles - more on those later. Again, I copy and paste the bitmapped logo from their website and construct a new one from elements in Inkscape. One of the first things I ...
Posted in Bolehtics, FOSS | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Converting a simple bitmapped logo, such as the Parti Keadilan Rakyat logo is not difficult. The first step is to find a good example, and I took the ballot-slip image from the top-right of the PKR website. You can copy and paste the image into a new Inkscape document. The ...
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