For the last week or two, I had some sort of strange thing going on between mysql and wordpress. Basically, everything would work fine, except for the “save” button on the post page. Whenever I’d hit “save”, it’d save as normal, but then it’d throw an error saying something to the effect of “can’t have [...]
So I’m trying out fedora core 5 (thanks in no small part to the power of partitionmagic). Biggest thing I’ve noticed so far: nothing remotely related to home-user type multimedia works, at all. No xvid, no divx, no mpeg, no dvd, no mp3. Why’s that? Well, patents, of course! ’cause you see, Fedora, like the [...]
test:/sbin# file /sbin/dhcpcd /sbin/dhcpcd: Bourne-Again shell script text executable
This is … all about dbms’es — a topic I’m getting quite intimate with this semester (what with the whole “writing our own in class” thing and all). I’m thinking … from a security perspective, default-allow is a bad thing, and default-deny is a good one — ie: you should have to explicitly enumerate the [...]
Really good ideas proliferate from the medium they’re developed in. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the goodness (applicability, soundness, utility) of an idea can be directly measured by how many other things it’s infected. A few good examples of this: Evolution. Sure, creationists don’t buy it. But creationists can [...]
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