Monthly Archives for 2004 06
Wrongfully charged by AITCOM
2004 June 30 at 14:10
AITCOM, that pathetic excuse for a web hosting company has wrongfully charged my credit card. I sign...
J2SE 5.0 or J2SE 1.5
2004 June 29 at 20:39
Yesterdy I visited java.sun.com after a weeks gap to find a strange new creature on the products pag...
Domain Name Resellers
2004 June 28 at 20:45
Just out of curiosity I checked some of reseller schemes available from different domain name regist...
Anatomy of an Audio Book
2004 June 27 at 20:58
How do you create an audio book using Text To Speech (TTS) technologu? Well here's how I did The saa...
ServerPronto
2004 June 27 at 09:53
It seems serverpronto may well have dedicated servers but they certainly are not pronto. An incident...
Religion: JSP vs PHP
Which is better, JSP or PHP? that's a religious questions, depends on whether you believe in god or ...
mod_perl
2004 June 25 at 02:06
Either I am daft or the doc is poor, either way I can't seem to figure out how to install mod_perl o...
From oral tradition to audio book
2004 June 23 at 22:26
The first audio book from Sri Lanka, "the saadhu testament", using synthesized speech, will be l...
Page Rank
2004 June 22 at 23:53
Looks like google has done a page rank calculation within the last few days. It has been over a week...
AITCOM(SUCKS).net
2004 June 22 at 08:13
You might have already seen my comments about aitcom.net - accessing s site hosted there is like pla...
Two weeks to answer a support request
2004 June 21 at 03:00
What would you think of a company that took two weeks to answer a support request. You would probabl...
nitpicking : print vs echo
2004 June 20 at 09:13
Nit picking can't possibly get worse than arguing over the merits and demerits of echo vs print in P...
Adsense Login Woes
2004 June 18 at 19:59
Adsense sessions seem to get dropped for no apparent reason at all. Three days ago, it just refused ...
apache ssl nightmare
2004 June 18 at 01:29
Just had a nightmare that involved apache. It all began when a new server was ordered to host Rad Up...
Applets and privacy
2004 June 17 at 00:14
One of the reaons that the java sandbox was created was to prevent a malicious web site owner from r...
Rad Upload
2004 June 15 at 21:39
Rad Upload now has it's own website. We decided to move out the Rad Upload demonstration to a separa...
FTP Applet
2004 June 14 at 23:45
We just released version 1.12 of our FTP Applet. When our SFTP (SSH FTP) applet was created last yea...
wxWindows
2004 June 13 at 20:14
I have a confession to make. I only know one way of making a GUI; that is using java swing. I no not...
tryFileCache() - not cacheable
2004 June 13 at 07:04
If you have installed mediawiki, you might have seen this error, then again you might not have seen ...
Local RPM Find
2004 June 11 at 23:28
rpmfind.net and other similar sites are pretty neat, but they cannot tell you about the rpms in your...
300 days, 300,000 pages, 30,000 downloads
2004 June 11 at 01:29
Yops, that just about somes up the statistics for my Mega Upload project. Of course the top ten proj...
Pandora's Box
2004 June 10 at 12:09
My hard disk is a real pandora's box. There are all kinds of daemons lurking behind dark corner. I j...
Another use for aspseek
2004 June 9 at 20:31
I have never aquired a liking for link checkers. Never bother to use them. For that reason some of m...
Commons Upload Progress
2004 June 9 at 05:36
the JSP edition of megaupload has been in the back burner for many moons. Recently I had a happy enc...
mailparse
2004 June 8 at 05:11
mailparse is a PHP extension that can be used to decode MIME mail messages. Though there are several...
More on AITCOM
2004 June 7 at 05:37
The other day I wrote about AITCOM being a hosting company to avoid. It amazes me no end that such a...
vpopmail shocker
Today I was surprised to discover that my default installation of vpopmail stores passwords in plain...
What's up at SF
2004 June 5 at 22:36
What's going on at Sourceforge.net? though they say each project listed on their site must be open s...
Hosting Company to avoid
2004 June 4 at 21:30 » Tagged as: hosting
Looking for the ideal hosting company? then AIT.com is one to avoid. Recently we needed some low cos...
Question mark over Page Rank
2004 June 4 at 08:52
In many newsgroups and mailing lists an often asked question is "will google index my pages if they ...
Tiny DNS
2004 June 2 at 21:32
A couple of weeks ago I installed DJB DNS on my local machine purely as a chaching name server. Then...
Server Outage
2004 June 1 at 21:24
Had a server outage last night for some unknown reason. The machine that hosts this web site stopped...