The Site With the Lamp: February 2006 Archives

Hiring Morons and Adsense Spam.

February 26, 2006

If you are an adsense spammer you will take heart from the fact that some google adsense/adwords staff wouldn't recognize spam if you hit them on the head with it. Recently we found that the number of clicks reported in...

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java.lang.VerifyError: Mismatched stack types

February 21, 2006

All of a sudden obfuscated/optimized applets started to throw up a verification error. java.lang.VerifyError: (class: am, method: a signature: (I)Ljava/lang/Object;) Mismatched stack types at ae.(Unknown Source) at n.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at com.radinks.dnd.DNDAppletPlus.(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)...

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Wordpressed Seamonkey

February 13, 2006

Still on the topic of important software releases; Wordpress 2.0 came and went and I missed it. Finaly had a chance to download and try out wordpress 2.01. Just like the previous version wordpress 2.01 is really a piece of...

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Qemu and Tun/Tap mystery

February 9, 2006

The domino effect from the DriveReady SeekComplete Error continues. First I had to repartition the two 'good' hard drives and make some space to move the stuff from the dud hard disk onto them. Then several CDs backups were also...

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Bad Sectors, Pear, Qemu and Darwin

February 7, 2006

I obviously have a faulty hard disk on my hands, the log files say this is a kernel bug, reiserfs faq says it's a hardware fault. The latter is most definitely the case, but hope springs eternal in the human...

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DriveReady SeekComplete Error

February 5, 2006

All of a sudden I noticed that my computer is running slower than normal. Compiling java code seemed particularly slow. I immediately suspected the hard disk, I get at least one disk crash per year just it's about time for...

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Loads of new software

February 3, 2006

So we start February with a lot of important releases for new software (no I am not talking about our own products, we have not made any releases this month). I am talking about Netbeans and Explorer 7 (beta). Well...

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