Archive for the ‘software’ Category
Friday, December 11th, 2009
I saw a request for help with English grammar from a member of a forum I often visit, so had a quick peep at his website. It looked great, nice copyright message and all. He seemed to be suggesting that it was all his own work, so I had a ...
Posted in Breaktime, FOSS, Life, Philosophy, software | 2 Comments »
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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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 »
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 »