Evil in the mirror
2009-04-04 23:58 by Ian
Evil in the mirror. Some photoshop.
Q&A About Mercury
2009-04-04 21:56 by Ian
Some assorted questions and my responses to an online contact regarding the chemistry of mercury.
Making Nickel (II) chloride hexahydrate
2009-03-09 22:58 by Ian
Some simple home chemistry.
Where I work
2009-02-24 02:19 by Ian
I’ve not seen such an impressive collection of servers before working at the datacenter. So I took some pictures.
A parabolic reflector from a directTV dish
2009-02-24 00:39 by Ian
Something geeky to pass the afternoon.
Recovering data from a damaged hard drive
2008-12-30 04:32 by Ian
Recovering data from a damaged hard drive is like rebuilding shattered glassware without knowing what it originally looked like.
Mounting a MySQL database from a ram drive in slackware
2008-12-27 21:49 by Ian
My little 1GHz VIA EPIA board now runs a DB that will saturate the NIC. By running the database from files located in a RAM drive, hard drive speed is no longer a limiting factor in database performance.
*nix-style services and permissions on NTFS filesystems
2008-03-16 23:09 by Ian
What follows is a ticket that I had last night. It sums up the problems that *nix users often have when trying to understand permissions on Windows servers. This not only applies to PHP, but to any *nix service that runs on Windows and needs to deal with file permissions. This includes FTP, PHP and Ruby (not hosted here for a reason).
Enjoy!
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Compiling JVLC for a 32-bit linux environment
2008-03-16 22:50 by Ian
When it doesn’t exist, you must build it yourself.
This is the outline of my tortuous experience building the java bindings for VLC on linux. I am happy to report that it does in fact work.
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Fixing the WordPress HTTP-500 error
2008-03-16 22:44 by Ian
The Internet has seen a good deal of speculation as to why WordPress fails on an otherwise working PHP installation. A co-worker and I dug into it and found the problem.