Archive for the ‘Fixed’ 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
[caption id="attachment_576" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Ubuntu update problem - The HTTP server sent an invalid reply header"][/caption]
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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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
I don't know what I was searching for when I found this 'code golf' challenge at Stack Overflow. The challenge was to find a substring of bytes in a byte array, returning the start position. It cost me half an hour or so, so I thought I'd post my attempt ...
Posted in Breaktime, Fixed, Philosophy, software | No Comments »
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_525" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="XenSmart Unmanaged Xen VPS in the UK"][/caption]
First a confession - I tried to 'go stingy' and put Lolyco.com on a XS-128 (128MB RAM) VPS at XenSmart, and it really didn't work. It was initially OK, but after a few visitors, it had filled up both the ...
Posted in Broadband, Broken, Fixed, Life | No Comments »
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
It's 3am, so this will be brief. Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome are all happily accepting HTTP cookies from wossis.com, but IE8 was gaily ignoring them. The problem is speech / quotation marks in the Set-Cookie line:
Set-Cookie: MIFS="qVZziOA7"; Path="/"
...works in 3 out of 4 browsers. IE8 pretends it never saw ...
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