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Comment on Poor perfomance with Cacti and RRDtool 1.3.x generating graphs by Arie

Arie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:35:25 +0000

Thanks a lot! I just experienced the same problem and your solution worked like a charm!

Comment on Opera Face Gestures Beta by Face tracking in Opera | Hack a Day Thailand

Face tracking in Opera | Hack a Day Thailand — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:50:34 +0000

[...] by this year’s april fools day joke from Opera, [Jason] has made facial gesture recognition actually work. While this may seem like a silly project, it could seriously help some people out. [...]

Comment on Inconsistencies Between PHP on Windows (Show Me the Money_Format) by Sergio Abreu

Sergio Abreu — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:14:23 +0000

CORRECTING:
Thank you for posting this tutorial.
Based on your code (thanks) I have created a function that could be useful for all:
/* currency function by Sergio Abreu */
function currency( $number){
setlocale(LC_ALL, ”);
$locale = localeconv();
return $locale['currency_symbol'] . ” ” . number_format($number, 2, $locale['decimal_point'], $locale['thousands_sep']);
}

Comment on Inconsistencies Between PHP on Windows (Show Me the Money_Format) by Sergio Abreu

Sergio Abreu — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:12:48 +0000

Thank you for posting this tutorial.
Based on your code (thanks) I have created a function that could be use do anyone:
/* currency function by Sergio Abreu */
function currency( $number){
setlocale(LC_ALL, ”);
$locale = localeconv();
return $locale['currency_symbol'] . ” ” . number_format($number, 2, $locale['decimal_point'], $locale['thousands_sep']);
}

Comment on Inconsistencies Between PHP on Windows (Show Me the Money_Format) by Mesbah Ahmed

Mesbah Ahmed — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:58:56 +0000

Thanks a lot! Your hints saved me a lot of mid-night oil.

Comment on Uplink Inspired Multiplayer Game by Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:26:08 +0000

hackwars.net and vpc-hack.net are some fun hacking games and they have quality eyecandy. I love the graphics compared to uplink.

Comment on Uplink Inspired Multiplayer Game by toothpick

toothpick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:29:29 +0000

wow thats amazing, how is it going so far?
email me

Comment on Getting ‘yum-protectbase’ to Work in RHEL5 [FIXED-READ UPDATE] by Dan Pritts

Dan Pritts — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:04:54 +0000

previously i’d only tested this on i386, not a x86_64

I just discovered that the default /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf looks like this on i386 or x86_64:

[main]
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1

[rhel-i386-server-5]
enabled = 1

On an x86_64 system there is no stanza for rhel-x86_64-server-5, and you need to add one if you want protectbase to work. I haven’t tested this extensively but it seems to work.

Comment on Opera Face Gestures Beta by Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:40:32 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

Comment on Getting ‘yum-protectbase’ to Work in RHEL5 [FIXED-READ UPDATE] by Dan Pritts

Dan Pritts — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:19:14 +0000

As of yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-13.el5 (current as of this writing), you can just go into /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf and add “protect = 1″ to each repo listed in the plugin.

Once you’ve done that yum-protectbase appears to do its thing, no modification to yum-rhn-plugin required.

Note that there is a security advisory on yum-rhn-plugin, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0815.html

so if you’ve excluded it you might want to update it.