- February, 2007
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perl oops
For a language which is so great, it is amazing how fscked up perl's oops is
Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff - January, 2007
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fun with about:*
Mozilla family of browser supports a variety about: commands. Today I searched inside the source code to see where they have been implemented and the complete list of the commands it supports. Here is the list Firefox supports. Type these urls in your Firefox browser for countless hours of fun (for very low values of fun).
- about:config
- about:credits
- about:plugins
- about:mozilla
- about:logo
- about:buildconfig
- about:license
- about:licence
- about:about
- about:neterror
Link: source code
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ingenious use of the HL engine
This looks very obvious in hindsight, but I am sure not many would have thought about this. This guy uses the HL's source engine to produced a model of the Kaufmann House by Frank Lloyd Wright. Using the Source Engine, as opposed to more traditional Architectural Software, allows the use of dynamic lighting and a real-time walkthrough of the scene in high resolution.
Links: the HL map for Kaufmann House and a walk through available here
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mysql slave problem
If you are seeing the line
received 0 length packet from server, apparent master shutdownin your mysqld.err file (when your mysql server is a slave), check the server-id of the machines which are replicating from the same server. Most likely, you will find that there are boxes which have the same server-id - December, 2006
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having trouble reddit's rss on bloglines ?
If you use Bloglines and you have not been seeing any updates from Reddit on it then try to get your reddit feed from this rssmix feed. I have no idea why Bloglines is not showing updated feeds from reddit.
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I was just reading a very interesting article from Jeremy Allison of the samba team called The Land of "Nothing for free". A very interesting quote
My panel was rather uncontroversial, Microsoft, Bruce Perens and myself being on our best behavior. The only sparks that flew where when Microsoft made it abundantly clear that they would use their patent portfolio to prevent the spread of GPL software. Section seven of the GPL (the implicit patent grant of the license) now looks like the most prescient writing Richard Stallman has ever done. If you're not familiar with it I'd suggest you read it and understand why using the GPL to protect your Free Software is so important.
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automatically subscribing to new folders in gnus
If you use gnus to read your imap, you might find this useful. Gnus does not automatically show new folders created in your IMAP server. However, you can get this behavior by using the
gnus-auto-subscribed-groupsvariable. In my .gnus, I added this(setq gnus-auto-subscribed-groups "INBOX.*")and voila! all my new folders started showing up.Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff
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