Category Archives: english

IE session bug

Posted on August 11, 2010 by welsh_dwarf

I’m just reposting this here so that it can help someone else. Internet Explorer doesn’t honor php sessions if the domaine name isn’t valid (hint: _ isn’t a valid caracter in domaine names). This can explain some hard to find … Continue reading →

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A Quick Note to the link spammers

Posted on April 11, 2010 by welsh_dwarf

I don’t have much google cred, so I can’t really understand why you are so insistant. That said, you’re ruining the fun for everyone else, so please go play on someone elses lawn. It doesn’t cost me much to spam … Continue reading →

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DynDNS and uptime

Posted on March 27, 2010 by welsh_dwarf

Anyone who has tried to get into touch with me or read this blog these last few days can atest to the fact that I haven’t been reachable. My deepest apologies . To understand what happened, here’s a quick lowdown … Continue reading →

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On a soduku solver…

Posted on October 3, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

Yesterday, when I was on the bus, I got pulled into a sudoku. Then I started wondering how a machine could be programmed to solve these puzzles. Note: For the rest of this post: A square is the un-devidable unit … Continue reading →

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AAC – Round 2

Posted on May 20, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

I’ve just gotten back into ffmpeg fun after a long haitus, during which ffmpeg v5 has come out. (No deb instructions this time since I’ve passed on to arch, which has a perfectly functional package). A couple of thing seem … Continue reading →

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DNS 101

Posted on March 2, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

I just thought that I’d post a quickie on DNS FQDNs (Fully qualified domain names). Go to your browser, type in www.google.com, you get the google home page. Everythings normal there. Now, change your url, ad a dot (so that … Continue reading →

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New server – same blog

Posted on February 18, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

I’ve just finished moving my blog (and my mail) over to a new server. For once, the new machine is less powerful than the old. This blog is now running on an opengate with 512Mb ram and 512Mb of disk … Continue reading →

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Comment spam

Posted on January 25, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

Oh well, the turning test is commeing closer and I need to update my challange code to keep ahead of the curve. The new test is a multiplication, but it isn’t in math notation, so it should hold out a … Continue reading →

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Motivation

Posted on January 15, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

Sometimes I wonder why there isn’t more stuff on this blog. I think it boils down to the fact that I seem to be almost incapible of sticking to one project. As an example, at the moment here are the … Continue reading →

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I Hate downtime

Posted on July 9, 2008 by welsh_dwarf

Yesterday evening, I agreed to turn my Home Server ™ off too help some people sleep. Unfortunatly my servers sleep turned out to be the big sleep, and this morning it refused to start. A few hours and a HD … Continue reading →

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