http://grantusmaximus.com/web Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:07:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the day arrives Firefox 3 has finally been released... I can't say it was in my diary but it must have been in some others, apparently their FTP servers were down in the hours leading up to the release... Suspect some geeks (and I use the word affectionately) were ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2008/06/18/most-downloads-guniess-world-record-in-progress/ Like I assume millions of other people, I've been unable to make a payment with PayPal for over 8 hours now. The following error message appear on the PayPal website when trying to make a payment with a credit card... The PayPal site is currently experiencing technical difficulties with our credit ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2008/05/30/paypals-credit-card-processing-down-for-8-hrs-and-counting/ While using Commonwealth Bank's online bank NetBank last week I transferred over $1000 on to my Credit Card. I didn't owe anything on this credit card I just wanted the funds on there to use... Since then I'd noticed my Available balance was on top $2000 ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2008/02/21/online-banking-error-in-my-favour-collect-1000-enjoy/ This raises an age old question which will likely be debated for many years to come. Ultimately both methods of storage have their benefits and costs. Storing images on the file system has a marginally faster retrieval rate, thanks to web and proxy servers being good at what ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2008/02/08/image-storage-database-blob-vs-file-system/ As recommend by the Microsoft crew I had enabled automatic updates... Big mistake! After my laptop installed the batch of updates released on the 9th of January my laptop began endlessly rebooting. It blue screens as soon as is starts to load Vista. To make things even better even safe mode ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2008/01/11/vistas-first-2008-reliability-update-blue-screens/ Zend debugger is basically the server side component that is used by Zend Studio. You need this to do your remote debugging!! Normally you'd find this included in an installation of Zend Core or Zend Platform. However we aren't using Zend's apache php bundle so this little gem has to be ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2007/12/16/zend-debugger-without-zend-corezend-platform/ I'm running a development server virtual machine on my Vista laptop using Parallels. Trouble is being on a laptop sometimes I'm on the road so a Host only network suits me, but other times I'm at home so I want the guest machine to connect to my home network. Up ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2007/11/01/virtualisation-host-only-and-internet-networking/ My problem is I and working on a web interface which runs some limit shell command. Some of these normally require root access... And I don't want to do something silly like force apache to run as root now do I? Provided you have sudo installed (like most distro's) the following ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2007/10/23/giving-php-exec-some-privilege/ My goal was more complex than what's described here in, but I wanted to share a simple function for returning the links in some HTML (now that I know what I'm doing)... Hopefully someone finds this useful, it was a common question in forums I noticed. Regular expressions ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2007/10/10/php-parse-html-returning-links/ Adding additional Trac and SVN users is relatively simple. With Trac you can do this under Admin when logged in as an administrator thanks to the WebAdmin and AccountManagerPlugins! For adding a new subversion user just use this command: htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd john_smith This user will then have access to all of your ... http://grantusmaximus.com/web/2007/09/20/cintraad-adding-svn-and-trac-users/