Archive for February, 2008

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Feb

Filed in Code, PHP with no comments |

I’ve updated PasteThat to include support for files (including images) and links. It will soon replace my image hosting site (NukeAfrica). The site allows you to upload files up to 5 megs in size (right now) and if it’s an image will do some extra handling. The templates around the file/link hosting are still fairly […]

24

Feb

Filed in Code, Django, How-To's, Python with 14 comments |

Again, I still suck at documentation, and my “tutorials” aren’t in-depth enough. So hopefully this covers all of the questions regarding using the django-sphinx module.

21

Feb

Filed in MySQL with no comments |

One of the developers at Curse was setting up a new database server today, and was trying to set all the defaults to UTF-8 for table creation/etc. While I knew about setting those, I always knew you still had to send the set names argument on your connection initialization. Well, it turns out, you don’t:
collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server=utf8
default-character-set=utf8
init-connect=’SET […]

13

Feb

Filed in Mac, Other with 3 comments |

Installed Firefox 3 Beta 3 here today at the office. “Shiny new fixes” they said. So I load it up, and obviously none of my addons work again (so I have to run them through my converter), and I attempt to hit Curse. “Connecting to www.curse.com…” for a minute. Ok, wtf, is the website down? […]

9

Feb

Filed in Other with no comments |

As many people have recently, we experienced our internet constantly crashing while using the PS3. It turned out there were quite a few “solutions” via Google. At first we tried DMZing the router. We tried setting it between wired/wireless. Tried removing security and just locking to MAC addresses. Etc..
Recently, I found another solution posted online. […]