Wrongfully charged by AITCOM
June 30, 2004
AITCOM, that pathetic excuse for a web hosting company has wrongfully charged my credit card. I signed up with aitcom a month ago for their dedicated server program. There was a considerable delay in setting up the server but at...
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J2SE 5.0 or J2SE 1.5
Yesterdy I visited java.sun.com after a weeks gap to find a strange new creature on the products page. It was called Java Standard Edition 5.0, this new creature is something I have never heard of before. There weren't any definitive...
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Domain Name Resellers
June 29, 2004
Just out of curiosity I checked some of reseller schemes available from different domain name registrars. There are 12 domain names where I am listed as one contact or other. I was just wondering if it's possible to save a...
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Anatomy of an Audio Book
June 28, 2004
How do you create an audio book using Text To Speech (TTS) technologu? Well here's how I did The saadhu testament. The book was only available as a microsoft word document or as html - the HTML is exactly what...
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ServerPronto
June 27, 2004
It seems serverpronto may well have dedicated servers but they certainly are not pronto. An incident last week made me think they are no better than ait but they gave sufficient reasons for me to change my mind later. I...
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Religion: JSP vs PHP
June 26, 2004
Which is better, JSP or PHP? that's a religious questions, depends on whether you believe in god or not? but who is god anyway? The question itself isn't a very good one. It should be which is better J2EE or...
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mod_perl
June 25, 2004
Either I am daft or the doc is poor, either way I can't seem to figure out how to install mod_perl on my apache+ssl installation. I suspect it's the former. I downloaed the source code and did the perl Makefile.PL,...
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From oral tradition to audio book
June 24, 2004
The first audio book from Sri Lanka, "the saadhu testament", using synthesized speech, will be launched on the 25th of this month. It is another first by the Sri Lankan author daya dissanayake, who is convinced that the future of...
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Page Rank
June 23, 2004
Looks like google has done a page rank calculation within the last few days. It has been over a week since I last logged in with a computer that run windows. Unfortunately the google tool bar is not yet available...
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AITCOM(SUCKS).net
June 22, 2004
You might have already seen my comments about aitcom.net - accessing s site hosted there is like playing the lottery - you never know when your lucky number comes up and the browser finally opens up the page for you....
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Two weeks to answer a support request
June 21, 2004
What would you think of a company that took two weeks to answer a support request. You would probably say it's better not to have answered the request at all. What would you say if the company involved is a...
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nitpicking : print vs echo
June 20, 2004
Nit picking can't possibly get worse than arguing over the merits and demerits of echo vs print in PHP. Other favourite topics of these nit pickers include single quotes vs double quotes and multiple if /else if/ else vs switch...
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Adsense Login Woes
June 19, 2004
Adsense sessions seem to get dropped for no apparent reason at all. Three days ago, it just refused to accept my username and password. Since the passwords were stored in the password manager the question of my fogetting it does...
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apache ssl nightmare
June 18, 2004
Just had a nightmare that involved apache. It all began when a new server was ordered to host Rad Upload. It was decided to move some of the other sites that are currently hosted on other machines onto this new...
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Applets and privacy
June 17, 2004
One of the reaons that the java sandbox was created was to prevent a malicious web site owner from reading what's in your mail box or your tax files. (Let's forget for a moment that major vulnerabilities often appear in...
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Rad Upload
June 16, 2004
Rad Upload now has it's own website. We decided to move out the Rad Upload demonstration to a separate site on a separate server (with more bandwidth) for obvious reasons. What obvious reasons? well sometimes we have several potential clients...
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FTP Applet
June 15, 2004
We just released version 1.12 of our FTP Applet. When our SFTP (SSH FTP) applet was created last year we had no intention of supplementing it with one that offered less security. However it turned out that many of the...
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wxWindows
June 14, 2004
I have a confession to make. I only know one way of making a GUI; that is using java swing. I no nothing at all about the win32 APIs and have never learnt GTK or QT either. That does not...
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tryFileCache() - not cacheable
June 13, 2004
If you have installed mediawiki, you might have seen this error, then again you might not have seen it because it only occurs when you attempt to cache the results. Parsing the wiki is something of a processor and memory...
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Local RPM Find
June 12, 2004
rpmfind.net and other similar sites are pretty neat, but they cannot tell you about the rpms in your CD spindle. rpmfind doesn't tell you about the source tarballs either. So I decided to create something along these lines for my...
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300 days, 300,000 pages, 30,000 downloads
June 11, 2004
Yops, that just about somes up the statistics for my Mega Upload project. Of course the top ten projects at sourceforge get ten times as many downloads each day as does megaupload. But then these projects are usually hundred times...
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Pandora's Box
June 10, 2004
My hard disk is a real pandora's box. There are all kinds of daemons lurking behind dark corner. I just hope there aren't any worms or trojans. Every once in a while, when looking for some misplaced file or other...
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Another use for aspseek
I have never aquired a liking for link checkers. Never bother to use them. For that reason some of my sites do have a few broken links. Aspseek, my favourite search engine has the solution. Once you run the index,...
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Commons Upload Progress
June 9, 2004
the JSP edition of megaupload has been in the back burner for many moons. Recently I had a happy encounter with the Commons File Upload handler and felt like building a progress bar for it. The JSP edition at the...
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mailparse
June 8, 2004
mailparse is a PHP extension that can be used to decode MIME mail messages. Though there are several open source classes that provide this fucntionality, mailparse is special because by virtue of being an extension it has an advantage when...
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More on AITCOM
June 7, 2004
The other day I wrote about AITCOM being a hosting company to avoid. It amazes me no end that such a company is in business. Almost immidately after the service was finally restored to my server the server became inacceesible...
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vpopmail shocker
Today I had a real shock when I discovered that my 'out of the box' installation of vpopmail keeps passwords in the clear. I had been using this set up for quite sometime without giving it a thought, today for...
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What's up at SF
June 6, 2004
What's going on at Sourceforge.net? though they say each project listed on their site must be open source in spirit it looks like the spirit is no longer with SF. I have been trying to add another release to the...
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Hosting Company to avoid
June 5, 2004
Looking for the ideal hosting company? then AIT.com is one to avoid. Recently we needed some low cost hosting options, primarily as bakups for the servers we have at Webquarry. We made a colossal mistake of choosing AIT. They took...
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Question mark over Page Rank
June 4, 2004
In many newsgroups and mailing lists an often asked question is "will google index my pages if they have '?' sign in it". If they had read the google documentation before posting the question they would have known that the...
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Tiny DNS
June 3, 2004
A couple of weeks ago I installed DJB DNS on my local machine purely as a chaching name server. Then last week we ordered a new server for Rad Inks and I wanted to try out tiny DNS on it...
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Server Outage
June 2, 2004
Had a server outage last night for some unknown reason. The machine that hosts this web site stopped responding for HTTP requests at around mid night. Though it pinged ok, it was dead for SSH and thus simply impossible to...
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Tomcat 5
June 1, 2004
It has been a long long time since I last played around with Tomcat. The last version I worked with was tomcat 4.1.27 and that itself tells a story. I had it configured to collaborate with my apache installation via...
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