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Written by Jason Kendall
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:03 |
OK - so a quick update....
IT WORKS - Kinda.
Using PPC compiled mythtv bins loaded and I could navigate (better then last build) however there is some issues with ParseXML - on talking to the MythTV devs there turns out to be multiple PPC instruction sets - so I need to re-compile all the MythTV bin's to this specific PPC code (Thanks @Sphery from #MythTv-users on freenode)
Once I have this working, I'll start cleaning up the packages and build a few test images - oh, and I hope to have my Cam fixed sooner or later so I can take vid of it booting.. ALSO - big news is that there is now ways to boot with Wifi support, so that has helped a littlebit since I relocated my wii away from a network jack.
Wish me luck - and comment! |
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Written by Jason Kendall
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:13 |
I've had a thought - Every programing book in the world has a "hello world" section to get you started. However, any real programmer knows that you really need a "Perpetual Facepalm" routine to show your disgust with the end user.
I need your help - Send me a tweet @coolacid and tag it with #pfp (if the routine is less then 120 chars) - There are a few rules.
- Should be an infinite loop
- Should have a pause or no-op to allow CPU cycles to continue
Bonus points if you can show it in an actual program
Even more bonus points if you publish it in a book
The more obscure way, or language the better.
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Written by Jason Kendall
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:03 |
Ok - Quick Q.
From Mythbusters 1:
"The planned task would be to raise Mattie, 44 lbs, using balloons. The "B-Team" consisting of the build team (Scottie/Kari/Tory) handled the task."
"Experiment 1: How much weight do 10 party balloons raise? A: 100 grams: 46 balloons for 1lb. This means that they would need ~2000 balloons to raise mattie."
Average weight of a 6 year old is 40-50 pounds.
Looking at the size of the balloon relitive to a person on the ground - there doesn't seem to be enough volume to even LIFT a kid off the ground.
Thoughts?
Update 1 - Average Volume for a Balloon is 1.84 Liters2 - That would mean approx 3600 Liters of helium.
Update 2 - Look at the image here3 - and the virtual volume needed to lift that person - there is NO way that weather balloon is big enough to sustain flight with a boy in it.
Update 3 - CNN is reporting that they *MAY* have been enough Helium to carry 100 pounds - without dimentions it's hard to say. But also looking at the way the balloon was floating (from what I could see) didn't look like anyone was in there.
1 http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/11/mythbusters_ping_pong_balls_an.html
2 http://www.austinschools.org/matrix/Documents/Science/Resources/7th/Lung_Capacity_Phase1.doc
3 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/08/cluster-balloon/ |
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Written by Jason Kendall
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 01:02 |
OK - I tormented my self googleing to find out why SH404SEF was not correcting my J15 sef urls. Couldn't find a darn thing about it. So, I turned to the code. Sure enough, it does do J! Sef, but only 1.0 - NOT 1.5 sef.
Here, I'm going to make some notes on how I view SH404SEF could fix 1.5 URLs.
- administrator/components/com_sh404sef/sh404sef.class.php - Line 3562
- We know J15 Sef builds URLs like this: (blah)/(id)-(alias) - Therefor, if we search the content DB for those items, and they exist, return "content15" (content15 to distiguish it from 1.0)
- Ignore the blah -this is part of the menu system
- components/com_sh404sef/sh404sef.inc.php - Line 206
- Need to add content15 to this, since it's now a valid J Sef.
- Same file - After shDoSecurityChecks call
- Need to actually figure out what it would be redirected too and do the redirect - maybe to a com_content url so it allows for a new auto-redirect
Need to also watch out for sef_ext.php - seems to be called in the sh404sef.in.php file...
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Written by Jason Kendall
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 22:04 |
So I've been updating my Joomla! version to the latest version and adding some new components/plugin's to this website - I can into a problem where I couldn't get TinyMCE to run due to some weird errors.
Turns out, it was a cache issue, but not at the browser level. I'm a geek, everyone knows that - and as a geek, I like my websites to be fast, so I have a 75Gig proxy server - sigh, alas, the proxy server was caching the TinyMCE js files - I had todo a little digging to find out how to expire that.
I didn't want to expire the whole cache - that would just be dumb - but found lots of websites that describes howto do that.
I also couldn't find a way to expire it via the cachemgr program - weird, I know.. but alas, you can't do it from there.
I did finally find the way todo it, and I figured I'd better at least mention it here for you.
To force cache clearing of a specific item you can use the squidclient command line tool as shown below.
squidclient -m PURGE 'URL'
Simple no?
Enjoy
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