On December 17, Earth and Saturn had their closest encounter in nearly 30 years. Furthermore, the planet’s rings are tipped toward Earth. It is an unbeatable combination for sky watchers who can easily see Saturn’s rings using backyard telescopes or binoculars. The Cassini spacecraft and Huygens probe which began their seven-year journey to the ringed planet [...]
From Dec 1st, NTT dropped their monthly ADSL prices from 3,200 to 2,700 for 12M. This drops to 2,430 if you register NTT for Myline Plus. Remind me to upgrade to 12M
Trying to install Redhat 7.0 on a dodgy Pentium 133Mhz drove me crazy so I went to Akihabara and bought a new PC. Intel P4 2.53GHz with fan 30,980 512Mb DDR2100 RAM 18,500 Asus P4B-533E motherboard 21,800 Seagate 80GB hard disk 12,800 Windows XP Pro/J (OEM) 19,800 Gladiac Geforce Ti6400 39,800 Logitec DVD-R 24,799 ATX [...]
Run httpd with /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Create a test file /var/www/html/test.php containing the following line Use a web browser to browse to http://localhost/test.php If PHP is working, this should display your settings. Sincxe RedHat7.2 on uses PostgreSQL instead of MySQL you will have to change a number of settings. Note in particular that the default PHP [...]
RedHat has switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL which is a more advanced DB server supporting stored procedures and functions. The PostgreSQL site is at http://www.postgresql.org/ I have the following rpms on my system: postgresql-7.1.3-2 postgresql-devel-7.1.3-2 postgresql-libs-7.1.3-2 postgresql-server-7.1.3-2 php-pgsql-4.0.6-7 If you want to install from source try the following, but the install paths will be different. [...]
For a full package see Foxserv-3.1 at Sourceforge MySqlFront is a useful Windows frontend for MySQL http://www.sstienemann.de/mysqlfront/ For users to register in your PHP-Nuke site, you’ll need an smtp server. Theres one in WinXp or you can try http://www.argosoft.com/applications/mailserver/ Requirements Download the latest versions of the following software. Apache (try IIS?) http://www.apache.org/ MySQL http://www.mysql.com/ PHP [...]
It was easier than I thought to set up phpNuke on ciHost. First go to your sites Monstercontrol at yourdomain/cgi-bin/monstercontrols Login with your website username and password Click on Script Archive Note the “Add MySql database” button at the top of the page. Check the box beside PhpNuke then click the Install button at the [...]
The new version of wysiwyg editor for PhpNuke 6.0 looks really nice. Its installed and working now. I eventually figured out why this homepage wasnt loading properly. Turned out to be a bug in the World Weather module which wasnt reading enough data from the cache file. I just added 100 bytes to the fread [...]
It took a while to get the Gallery random photo block to work properly with PhpNuke. Most of the solutions are in the Gallery forums… if you look carefully. Heres how I did it… The first error (and also the most commonly asked question on the forum) has to do with the rand() function. The [...]
Tubular Bells (May 25th, 1973) 1. Part One 25:00 2. Part Two 23:50 Composed by Mike Oldfield except The Sailor’s Hornpipe which is Trad. Arr. Mike Oldfield Produced by Mike Oldfield, Simon Heyworth and Tom Newman Sleeve Design and Photography: Trevor Key Recorded at The Manor Autumn 1972/Spring 1973This stereo record cannot be played on [...]
Episode II started in Japan today. I’ll go see it when the queues to get in are less than 2 hours long.
My domain, mortell.com, was taken over by some Asian firm. I missed the email from Network Solutions reminding me to pay the yearly fee. I must have deleted it among all the spam I get daily. I registered dmortell.com and moved my website here.