Concerning writing my own Ace updater, I think I'm gonna go the groovy direction vs. rails (or JRuby, or Ruby).... (full text)

...but between attending some sessions at the GSS yesterday and today, and the frustration of trying to be "polite" in... (full text)

It's even officially available from the company's OSS toolkit: Vim. Well, I use the gVim part. It did help me... (full text)

I'm fully not expecting this to get answered, but I figured it's worth a try. Is there a tool that... (full text)

So, I didn't end up buying a new mobo/cpu. Wasn't worth the ~$20 or less in savings to scramble to... (full text)

Courtesy of my dad linking their latest article, I bring you Worse Than Failure. Some of 'em (see the "Error'd"... (full text)

I've noticed that the weakest link for my comp is the motherboard/CPU. I've got some old AMD with a 1.3GHz... (full text)

So, even though I don't yet have any games for the DS that play over the intarwebs, I figured I'd... (full text)

So... how do you deal with the fact that (a) one's home IP changes regularly unless one pays through the... (full text)

Since I about tore my hair out before I found this... if you find yourself requiring the use of the... (full text)

Besides the fact that for a while I had nothing to say, and our power was out for 3 full... (full text)

Our cat Zephyr has good taste in bedding. I'd washed a bunch of my lingeree (robes, slips, nightgowns, etc.) and... (full text)

I got a compliment on my hair from a complete stranger at work today. Hers wasn't even a face I'd... (full text)

So, I've relied on the fact that my web host's PHP settings always have register globals on. I don't write... (full text)

Well, form fields get populated correctly now. However, phpinfo still reports register globals being turned on, and things I've written... (full text)

Our webhost was attacked with a phishing routine that takes advantage of autoglobals being on in PHP. After some version... (full text)

I had to delete the database user that all my main site connections use, then re-add again. The user was... (full text)

I fucking hate Eclipse & Tomcat sometimes. "OMG I'm so confyoooosed I dunno what to do except shit all over... (full text)

Wrangling with computer towers is fun! Full size tower + nowhere to lay it down horizontally + putting in and... (full text)

So... apparently a reseller with my my web host (Crosswinds) wasn't policing his clients' installs, and one installed b2evolution. After... (full text)

Woot! I had to add my test page to my trusted sites zone 'cause of the security settings I have... (full text)

and came up with this cute little thing. Not the foggiest idea what happens in IE or Opera; my vague... (full text)

I did get finished with the "remember me" stuff, but I did find a problem with what I did with... (full text)

I'm already done with the JS to PHP change for the TypeKey stuff. Plus I did other things (specifically sign... (full text)

I'm going to try to change the commenting stuff on the main site that uses Javascript into using PHP instead... (full text)

Gotta run soon, but I figured I'd update y'all with all the fun and not-so-fun activities so far. First, we... (full text)

So evidently the Perl module Weather::Underground is somehow not working here anymore. I don't know enough to really debug it;... (full text)

My computer is totally hooked up now. The RAM worked fine, as I expected. I was half right about my... (full text)

I got the RAM in, though it caused a little trouble. In the end, I had to stack my flat... (full text)

It's 10:30 Monday morning, and I still just want to crawl back in bed for a few more hours' sleep.... (full text)

I just spent the last... I dunno, half hour or more upgrading to MovableType 3.16 from 3.14. I had to... (full text)

Okay, so I said I'd get to this next. I had started it in the last post, and decided that... (full text)

As most of you probably didn't know, I went to a Java/.NET (primarily Java, which is why members of our... (full text)

With the way TypeKey and the new commenting works, I couldn't get the redirects after signing in and after commenting... (full text)

I got sick of the fact that the MTWair plugin isn't working anymore, and isn't likely to work any time... (full text)

I haven't done anything yet about moving to MT 3, commenting or no (please still feel free to have your... (full text)

Would anyone care to tell me why my CGI file gives me a generic Internal Server Error, with nothing showing... (full text)

Since I have some time to break away from code testing, being that some random asshole is sucking up Oracle... (full text)

I recently found there's a problem with the stuff that generates my current and next reading lists with all the... (full text)

... do it yourself. For anyone who has had issues viewing any images I've posted on my LJ, I think... (full text)

As you might suspect, there are plenty of spyware detection and removal tools to be found on the net. As... (full text)

Mozilla is about to release as 1.7, so AOL has announced the release of Netscape 7.2 due out this summer.... (full text)

Okay, just so we understand... it's pretty obvious that once a Windows exploit is made public, and there's even a... (full text)

I waltzed over to the MovableType website, to see if there'd been any updates and to perhaps get around to... (full text)

I asked some questions about Firebird & Thunderbird on the forums, but I must have bad timing 'cause I haven't... (full text)

For some strange reason, all LJ entries starting with #65 don't work quite right. I noticed it after I'd added... (full text)

Once the holidays rolled around, I didn't really have much time to spend online, or when I did, I spent... (full text)

I always wondered if it'd be possible to run more than one version of IE at a time. With IE... (full text)

While I was at Jay Allen's website looking through his archives for something else completely, I found this interesting tidbit.... (full text)

For some reason, I can't get to my linux box from my other machine (hell, it shouldn't even matter since... (full text)

Small little glee, but I created a Windows HOSTS file so instead of typing IP numbers to get to MT... (full text)

Well, we found out Friday before last what a piece of suckass crap our UPS is. It's a Belkin 525VA... (full text)

Now this is what I'm talkin' about. I went and grabbed w.bloggar again, since it didn't work before (again,... (full text)

After trying to use MozBlog (it installed in Netscape 7, which is a derivative of a high enough version of... (full text)

I have a nomination for "least usable website EVAR!!!" And I'm not talking about people's personal websites. They can do... (full text)

This is just cool: Screen Calipers... (full text)

Well, I decided my new page design (which I was planning to put up at my Crosswinds site when I... (full text)

Well... a server had a fan blow out, so it overheated and lost a bunch of user files. Every file... (full text)