Blog/PHP/WLAN/3G hell

Sunday, February 11. 2007

So yesterday I added this cool weather applet so you can all see the current weather in Dublin. Seemed nice to me for a blog like this one. The original applet is pretty bloated and takes up too much space for my taste, so I made a compact version with only the more interesting information. Might want to share it with the original authors...

And then suddenly last night there was this ugly error message instead of the right panel. I didn't change anything and suddenly it was there, and it didn't want to go. Yay! Probably because I messed with PEAR a bit while trying (and failing) to get a working Cache.php module. Don't you just love PHP/PEAR?... /o\

So then I just upgraded s9y. Which is said to be pretty trivial, but not if you actually care about security and refuse to give webapps root access to MySQL. It's nice that recent webapps all have their automatic setup/upgrade tools, probably great for people who are stuck with some shared hosting server without SSH access. But it'd be nice to still provide other ways to upgrade/install stuff too.

And of course, when the upgrade was almost finished, my "ISP" (aka unsuspecting neighbour) went down again. And it's still down. Normally these downtimes are a lot shorter... :-( So I'm stuck with this 3G/GPRS card I have here. And I just found out that GPRS is actually more stable than 3G (aka UMTS in some areas). While ping gets just 0-2% packet loss (which is pretty okay, I think), it's completely impossible to keep a TCP connection alive for more than a minute. I don't understand why, but it's really annoying.

I'm really looking forward to the trip to Mountain View... sigh (Which will probably be in two weeks.) Meanwhile I'll work on my WEP cracking skills a bit. It can't be that hard... ;-)

Posted by Wilmer van der Gaast in Intarweb, OSS at 12:32 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Cute weather thingie!

When I feel like running I often just get in my sport outfit, and walk outside - often to see that it's raining, or colder than I expected, or there is some tornado going on. I just don't look outside, but I do look at my desktop. Fortunately there is a solution for nerds who sometimes do want to go outside: the yahoo tiny weather widget on my desktop (7C, feels like 5C, and it's raining - yey).

P.S. yo automatically turns to yo in my mind, no problem ^_~ - hmm, maybe the yo also works in your post entry?

#1 Danny (Homepage) on 2007-02-11 14:04 (Reply)

Hehehe, formatting is messing up a bit again. ;-) Well, I already type *bla*, but I don't want any translation... And certainly no translation to escaped HTML tags. :-( I think the problem is that I'm using two formatting plugins. And it seems that in comments it doesn't have this problem. Instead, it likes to strip newlines/paragraphs... *sigh*

I got this weather applet thingy in Dashboard on my MacBook, but I don't trust it, because it says it's -7 centigrades here now and that the temperature won't reach any positive value at all during this week. And last night around eleven it said the sun is shining here...

So I'll just reload my blog when I want to know the weather. :-D

#1.1 Wilmer (Homepage) on 2007-02-11 14:21 (Reply)

You should give me a call when you get to Mountain View. We'll do lunch.

#2 Tony Perrie (Homepage) on 2007-02-11 20:05 (Reply)

Hello Wilmer.

I understand the whole blog will be in English.
Too bad for our grandparents. :-)
When i start to understand what you're writing about, i will translate it for them sometime.
I've just seen the pictures of your appartement. Very nice!
That bed must be very comfortable.
It was nice to hear you yesterday. Jan says hi.
Goodluck on your second Google-week!

Mariët
(P.S. Is Danny the one from the orange duck? It's now Jauke's favourite, almost cuddled tot dead)

#3 Mariët on 2007-02-12 10:06 (Reply)

Hi Mariet!
Aw, that's so cute! Being cuddled to death is the preferred end for a stuffed animal I guess :)

#4 Danny (Homepage) on 2007-02-18 17:25 (Reply)

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