Just received the below email from Spamwise. They harvested one of my email addresses from my blog, so they could send me an email, to tell me my email addresses could be harvested by Spammers, with the stated intention of reducing unnecessary emails. So anyway, I try...
Problem: The G3 RC2 Gallery, in album view, displays random `thumbnails' that are full sized. (e.g. the size of the real photo). Cause I am trialling Gallery 3 RC2 hosted on Dreamhost shared hosting. I think the way Gallery 3 generates thumbnails is that it takes the...
I just started copying some files from a Windows XP Pro VMWare VM to a Redhat 3.1 Server VM hosted on their own private network on a VMWare ESXi 4.x server. Using WinSCP from the XP Pro Client with SSH as the transfer protocol I was seeing ~5,000KB/s. So I stopped the...
I have for several months been giving Fedora 13 a go as my primary OS. Fedora is what it is— A beta release for a product that will be rebadged and released when it's finished. As a distribution it's not really playing in the same league as Ubuntu. The polish...
Attempting to install Bluefish on Windows XP Pro SP3 I went here http://code.google.com/p/bluefish-win/ Which sent me to here http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluefish/files/ Which gave me a download link here...
If you have an account with a webhost which allows you to run multiple domains (or even `unlimited' domains ala Dreamhost). You may be tempted to run multiple websites under the default account that is provided by the hosting company. But while convenient, this has a...
Ran into a problem with a jQuery AJAX script that parses returned XML. It wouldn't work on Google Chrome when looking for a namespaced xml node using jQuery.find(). Apparently this (xml namespaces) can cause jQuery some minor heartburn but it's not a show stopper. A...
My home computer is a P4. P4's are like 6+ years old. However it's still suitable for what I use it for. In fact it's performance has been improving of late. Why? Linux is maturing and the people who are designing the entire GNU/Linux eco-system are optimizing. Here...
Dia is a great Open Source diagramming program that has extensive `shape' libraries for a lot of different applications (I use it for drawing network diagrams and flow-charts). When using Dia one of the questions that arises fairly regularly is: Is it possible to...
This is the simplest answer I could find for a client needing to POST an XML SOAP message to a server in another domain. Not sure on the security because the POST isn't validated so it just passes on whatever the client sends. libcurl has a lot of options