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Friday, August 28th, 2009
In the recent few month I have come more and more across personal laptops and desktops infected with various rootkits. The standard solution is to wipe the OS and reinstall. Recently an alternative may be a rescue CD with the antivirus software on it which is used to boot the ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Many recent flash drives such as Sandisk Cruzer come built in with a read-only CDROM-like partition which appears as a CD-ROM on the computer, and a second writable partition. It seems that this is something not done via software but must have support in hardware since presenting a device as ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
The easiest way is to install the standard Debian 5.0 package instead of the Ubuntu-specific package. Full instructions can be found in Ubuntu Forums.
For the technical among you - there seems to be an issue with the statically linked package for Ubuntu. The dynamic package for Debian seems to work ...
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Charlie the Groundhog
Originally uploaded by netwizard
A groundhog has been attacking our garden for the past few weeks. After a call to the exterminator he has been finally caught. You can see it in the picture waiting to be transported out of the city.
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
For quite some time, Google Base feeds for some of of my projects were either partially ingested or rejected out of hand with a message "Required attribute missing". I ran xmllint and several online validation tools, and found nothing. But thanks to a Mac blog, I finally figured it out.
It ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Wordpress v2.7 comes with a feature that allows plugins and the program itself to be updated within the web interface. However, I was never able to get it to work until I happen to see the following instructions at the Wordpress Codex:
1and1 (fails running PHP 4, but works with PHP ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Recently, after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) from 8.10 (Intrepid) I noticed that PDF files produced via the "Print" command in various programs (similar to Adobe Distiller) produces very low resolution files and renders all text into images. It turns out to be a bug in CUPS-PDF, which is the ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Bugzilla
Originally uploaded by netwizard
A creepy crawler recently sighted. Otherwise known as the house centipede or Scutigera coleoptrata.
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
While snowed in, I am taking the time to review some of the old projects and no longer needed domain names on my account. Therefore, here are some changes:
1. SocialPeople.net - a project going back 3 years that lets people search social network profiles is now losing its domain and ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Recently I had to work with Google AJAX API data which returns in JSON. For my purposes, the data needed to be in XML. While there is a CPAN module called XML2JSON which is designed to do that, for some reason it chokes on my input. Instead, I adopted a ...
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