This is probably above much of my audience here which is, and if you think PHP SOAP is something you buy at the local grocery store in the health and beauty aisle, stop reading now. However, read on below if you’re remotely interested in PHP programming, specifically SOAP requests on remote servers …
Category: Geekdom
Movable Type 3.2 Bug Fix For Slow Comment Posting
While my comment posting here has never been slow (as I’m running on a pretty meaty server and my templates for this site don’t have a lot of MT variables), I did notice a slight speed increase when I implemented this bug fix. For anybody who has a very large MovableType installation, this will be a needed fix.
The Ultimate Computer Desk
While these are pretty sweet workstations, I think having the computer built into the desk would be pretty dang sweet.
Google Introduces Web Page Creator
And, naturally, accounts are closed on the new service so I don’t know much about the service other than what other folks say. But it looks like it might be poised as a MySpace knockoff, but I can’t really tell. Anybody actually played with the thing?
Doom On An iPod Nano
Despite what the link says, this is not Half Life, but still dang impressive. You can read the guy’s blog on how to pull this off your self with iPod Linux.
Snails Are Faster At Data Transfer Than ADSL And Pigeons
Just strap a couple of DVDs to the snail, and you’re good to go.
Getting Your “Disabled” Extensions Working In Firefox 1.5.0.1
I ran into this when I upgraded to Firefox 1.5.0.1 that my theme and one of my extensions were disabled. But since they worked in 1.5, they should be able to work in 1.5.0.1, right? They can, with a bit of work.
Blogging Via A Robots.txt File
This is by far the most unique blog format I’ve ever seen (reminds me of old plan or gopher logs). Link via Waxy.
Geekdom Link Dump
These are mostly geeky links for my reference that I’ve been meaning to just get online for a while so they’re saved somewhere, but they might be handy for other folks here:
- Linux LiveCD list
- Symantec Bullying Spybot (or why I don’t use Symantec products much any more).
- PDF Generation Using Only PHP
- Ten Tools Every Windows Admin Should Have
- Linux Newbie Info
- RIP, Minolta Cameras
- Hiding A Server in a UPS (good way to folks from stealing your file server)
- Printer Friendly MovableType Pages (something I’ve been meaning to implement here)
- Get a full local backup of your remote Web server with rsync
- Good Free Type Resources
- Doing Charts In Illustrator
- Updated WYSIWYG Plugin for MovableType (I need to get that installed on the band site)
- WYWIWYG and Comments (another thing on the to-do list — at least to make it easier to format comments)
- Getting Your Blog into Google Base (might help my problem)
- Alternate Edit Entry template for MT
- How To Sanitize PDF and Word Docs
- Digg vs. Slashdot
My New Toy Is Sick
My two-week-old toy is sick. It’s having trouble POSTing properly, and will randomly just shut down and not turn back on. There’s obviously some sort of funky hardware issue with the thing, so I’m sending it back and nipping it in the butt before it becomes a major issue. Just waiting for my RMA before I send the thing off via UPS. I have a feeling that it’s probably the RAM, but I don’t have a gig (or any, for that matter) of DDR2 SODIMM RAM stick sitting around (they’re not the easiest thing to get a hold of and I don’t keep them handy).
In the nine Sager notebooks I’ve personally dealt with, this is the first time I’ve had this happen. That being said, I was able to very easily open the thing up and get to the RAM, CPU, Hard Drive, MiniPCI cards, Video Card, and everything else so if I have a problem or want to upgrade in the future to new video, RAM, or CPU, it’s going to be stupidly easy.
Meanwhile, I’m back on my old laptop (P4 1.6ghz with 4200 RPM hard drive and 512 megs of RAM that’s shared with the video card). It’ll get the job done, but I certainly do miss my baby.