Gnome and Mozilla

August 22, 2004

My previous blog entry was made after I had reinstalled some of the older (v1.x) gnome RPMs and cajoled mozilla into starting up. I continued with the compilation of the new version while browsing. In the middle of all that...
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Gnome 2.6.1 upgrade

August 21, 2004

As this blog entry is been written the CPU is quitely ticking away while the hard disk whirls at the task of compiling gnome 2.6.1 from source. You will no doubt wonder why I am installing 2.6.1 now when 2.6.2...
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Tapering off?

August 20, 2004

If you have been a regular visitor to this site you may be wondering about the remarkable lack of posts during this month. It's been a week since I last made a blog entry. What is the reason? there are...
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Happy Birthday Megaupload

August 12, 2004

August 11th was the first birthday for Mega Upload the birthday coincided with the latest round of network problems so I was in no position to celebrate - to make matters a little worse the demo and the site for...
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Growing Pains

August 11, 2004

Rad Inks is having growing pains. Until today we radinks.com was hosted on just a single server. This server has been crashing on an all too often of late. The worst outage occured today and yesterday all in all the...
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Object Oriented PHP vs java

August 9, 2004

If you have done any object oriented programming with PHP 4, you may have been left with the impression that it was an after thought. PHP 5 on the other hand includes several major improvements to the way that objects...
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Foreign Keys and mysql

August 8, 2004

Many developers and DBAs who spent their lives on M$ SQL or Oracle turn up their noses at mysql, they refer to it with disdain. According to them the lack of foreign key support in mysql means it is not...
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Rad User Manager Open Sourced

August 7, 2004

As the name implies Rad User Manager is a login and user management systems for websites. This product was developed from the PHP scripts that power the Rad Inks members area Just yesterday we decided to change to license model...
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Mysql to postgres migration tool

August 6, 2004

A couple of days ago I put up a simple script that can convert from mysql table structures to postgresql. Currently it does not work with the actual data but can give you a script that you can run on...
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last_insert_id or currval

August 5, 2004

Sometimes when you inserting data into a table that has a generated id you find yourself wanting to know what the generated id was. Enter the last_insert_id() function of mysql. When you enter data into a mysql table that has...
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How to cancel your AITCOM account

August 4, 2004

If you made the biggest mistake of your life and signed up with AITCOM - the dedicated server failure company you are probably wondering how you can cancel your account. The only way is to cancel your credit card. Like...
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Server Down

August 3, 2004

Ouch. We have had two server outages in two days. It's a painfull affair for a small company like ours. Our ISP webquarry was very prompt as always in restarting the server but they are as puzzled as we are...
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mysql to postgres and auto_increment

August 2, 2004

The second pitfal in migration from mysql to postgresql is the auto_increment feature for integer types in mysql - the first of course is the password() function. In other databases you have to create a sequence and use the nextval()...
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AITCOM - Dedicated wrongfull billing service

August 1, 2004

AITCOM is a pathetic excuse for a web hosting company. Last month they wrongfully charged me to the tune of $150 - (at the time I thought they had charged me just $69 but turned out to be $150!!). This...
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