Wow has it really been 10 years since the Millennium Bug “hit” the world (or Y2K or Year2000 or armageddon!). I remember all the news reports about airplanes were going to fall from the skys and Hospital equipment were going to blow up and attack the people they were suppose to be looking after. I [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Eurostar and The Register
It was not just me commenting on the strange going on with the eurostar!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/eurostar_eurotunnel_fiasco/
Snow and technology
Every year it always surprises me that when thesnow falls ont the UK the whole country comes to a halt. Maybe I’m getting old and not remembering my younger years but I’m sure itnever use to be this bad! Could itbe the more technology we have the less ability we can cope with [...]
Spam comments
After upgrading to the latest version of WPMU, I had a look around to see where there was a way of stopping spam comments since I was forever trying to delete them. Doing a quick search on wordpress.com (why didnt I do this eariler) there are a number of plugins available that force the user [...]
Using Bind 9 for Home DNS Server
I’ve been with 02 for just over a year now and after having a fantastic setup from them and to be honest a really good connection (over 9MB most of the time). One thing has really disappointed me… their DNS servers never seem to be as reliable as they should be. I thought it was [...]
Max upload for eShop
I’ve been looking at setting up an eshop on one of my wordpress accounts and for the downloadable content page for eshop it shows that there is a max upload size. After alot of hunting around and googling (which I thought might have been easier to find!)
Turns out it was quick an easy find when [...]
Regular Expression
Its been a while since I’ve ventured into regular expressions, and I always seem to find it a nightmare when I come back to it. But I’ve found a great tutorial which gives a really good overview of each of the magic commands / syntax that you can use when performing the matching:
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html
epfw testcase=validation/invalid-chars/epval-invalid-chars-bind36.xml trace_leve
l=3
Subversion making a tag using the revision number
I’m a user of a subversion server on a day to day basis and its probably the best free code repository that is out there. It is fantastic to use and really simple to update and manage using things like Tortoise SVN.
But today I released that our repository had not been tagged to ensure that [...]
Wordpress pages hit internal server error
When I was making the move to wordpress mu one of the strangess things that i encountered was a problem with pages and looking at full page articles. When every I click on the links I would get an 500 internal server error returned. Since the way that wordpress mu works it has to rewrite [...]
Where have the images gone?
After the upgrade to Wordpress MU for some reason I “lost” all of my images from this blog, oddly the other blog did not have this problem which was very strange! After abit of digging I noticed that the url’s being returned for the images had /uploads/ in them rather than /files/ I assumed that [...]