The Site With the Lamp: October 2004 Archives

Incompatible object argument for function call

October 29, 2004

I have written a few times before about bugs in Java 5 (see Oct 12th entry for example). A more serious bug something which I have often noticed before but not blogged about is the class verification error that is...

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Megaupload

October 26, 2004

It was only three weeks ago that I made the previous release of the PHP edition of mega upload, It had to be followed up by another release today because 1.44 is not as secure as it should be. As...

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Subversion

October 25, 2004

Many moons ago, I downloaded subversion because I had messed up the CVS installation on my computer (not that I was making much use of it anyway) and wanted to try something different. Finally I had a chance to install...

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Firefox and java

October 23, 2004

After spending quite a bit of time installing firefox, the next step is to try out an applet on it. So I made the link to jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so and started up the browser again, it worked despite the fact that java...

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Firefox and xpistub

October 22, 2004

I wrote a couple of days back about trouble installing firefox, the error message ./firefox-installer-bin: relocation error: /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: pango_find_base_dir wasn't in google's index. There were less than 10 results for the second half of that error message relocation...

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tempfs vs RAM Disk

October 21, 2004

I am beginning to wonder why I ever bothered with RAM disks. Apprently tempfs can offer all the benefit of RAM disk and more. For years I used to think /dev/shm that used to show up with a call to...

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Movable Type Upgrade

October 20, 2004

Just downloaded the latest version of MovableType (3.11). They certainly have made it very difficult to download it. They have one of those wierd images with distorted set of characters which you have to read out and enter into the...

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Site Overhaul

October 19, 2004

After installing the wiki a few days ago I decided to change the appearence of the entire site to match the wiki. Of course there is considerable risk involved, UI changes more often than not result in sites being confined...

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Rewrites and CGI

October 18, 2004

The newly installed wiki caused the cgi scripts on this site to stop functioning. The actual culprit was the URL rewrites that were used with wiki to translate 'ugly urls' (as mediawiki authors call it) into the 'good looking' URLs...

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USB Drive on linux 2.6.8

October 17, 2004

After a lot of effort I finally manage to mount my Creative MuVo Tx as a USB drive. As it turns out, part of the problem was that I had turned off SCSI support. According to what I gathered you...

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Mozilla and Firefox

October 16, 2004

Mozilla is getting further and further up my nose everyday so instead of upgrading to mozilla 1.73 I decided to try out firefox instead. This is not the first time that I am trying out firefox the first attempt was...

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User Manager

October 15, 2004

Hard On the heals of the Rad Upload release comes a new version of the Rad User Manager. This is one of the handfull of open source projects that Rad Inks is involved in. (Mega upload is not one of...

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Rad Upload and HTTPS

October 14, 2004

There was a new release of Rad Upload yesterday, this is th first new release after a period of more than 2 months. The new release version 1.30 adds support for SSL encryption. That means Rad Upload can now be...

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Java 5 bug and a work around

October 12, 2004

Did you see that really massive stack trace (that was thrown by the supposedly stable version of java 5) in my blog a few days ago? I think I may have found the solution. If you recall the java plug...

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Overture and common cents

October 11, 2004

I have always felt overture is a bit wierd and I recieved confirmation in the form of a cheque for the princely sum of $1.16. Since I live outside the US (in beautiful Sri Lanka) it cost them $0.80 to...

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Wiki

October 10, 2004

The site with the lamp has finally been 'wikified' If you are a frequent visitor here you might have noticed that I spent a bit of time looking at a few wiki scripts, a few days back I decided to...

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Java 5 bug?

October 9, 2004

Just upgraded the j2se 5.0 installation on my computer from the beta to the full release. It seems the beta may have been more stable than the gold. Why do I say that? well after upgrading to jdl 1.5.0 (without...

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Mega upload 1.44

October 8, 2004

Mega Upload version 1.44 was released yesterday (7th Oct). There are two improvements over the previous version (1.43). There had been a few reports of the progress bar reaching 100% and not changing thereafter to the 'upload complete' state. I...

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FileSystemView

October 7, 2004

Since the java class library that accompanies the JVM includes thousands of classes (and the number is growing all the time) it's nearly impossible to have ever used all these classes. I would be suprised if a developer who claims...

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The quest for the perfect wiki ends.

October 6, 2004

My quest for the perfect wiki has finally ended. I have come a fully circle and finally decided to settle on mediawiki, the very product that I wanted to move away from. The mediawiki project is full of features but...

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what wiki to use?

October 3, 2004

The quest for the perfect wiki continues and today I take a look at wikiwig. The first impression is negative because the download is an 'rar' file not a zip, gz or bz2. I managed to get it extracted by...

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FTP Applet

October 2, 2004

Yesterday we released the latest version of the FTP Applet. This new release makes has some significant improvements over the previous versions. The most important change is the fact that you can now switch on and off between displaying hidden...

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The quest for the perfect wiki

October 1, 2004

Have you read The Quest for Karla by John Le Carre? I have always felt that the pace of his books was too slow. My quest for the perfect wiki is not moving any faster. It was a week ago...

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