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| 04-23-2009 - UTF8 and Your Database Most people reading my blog probably are scratching their heads now at this entry. What the crap? UTF8? Well, let me explain. There has been a problem that has crept up with the postgres database that I've been using. Somewhere along the way they switched from UTF16 to UTF8. What is means is that the extra character set isn't compatible. Extra characters such as the ' at the end of cafe'. Typically, the ' is more tilted to the right on the end of cafe'. This is isn't available in UTF8. I found this php link that helps filter out non UTF8 characters. http://us3.php.net/utf8_encode (0) Comments 03-26-2009 - PHP Charts Class I found this pcharts class for php and had to make note of it. It looks like they provide the code for a class to make it easy to integrate graphs and pit charts into your website. Rewind that, dynamic graphs and charts. It was important enough to make not of it to come back to someday. Hopefully soon. (0) Comments 03-18-2009 - denyhosts and fail2ban For a quite a longtime now there has been a non-stop flood of ssh brute force attacks all over the world. To try to stay on top of security, I came across denyhosts and fail2ban. Denyhosts ending up being my preferred choice, because it said the was sometype of collective feature like a blacklist where if an attack was detected on 1 machine, then it updated the blacklist for the IP. This seemed to mean you could automatically block someone before they even attempt to access your machine. I thought it was important enough to make a note about it on my blog. (0) Comments 02-20-2009 - Multiple Domain Email Server For a while now I've been using squirrelmail. It's been great, but the question had been asked years ago "Could I setup a server to handle multiple domains"? That question had nagged me for years. Today, I finally found a walk through that someone explains the steps for multiple domains. I thought it was important enough to make note of it for me to revert back to someday, and for the rest of the world to see. (0) Comments 02-12-2009 - Polybius As much as I've been into computers most of mylife, I had never heard of the Polybius urban legend til today. It seems in Portland Oregon back in 1981 there was a tempest style type of video game that appeared in only a couple arcades. It was said there was psycological effect from playing the game. The best part is where men in suits show up and don't care about the coins, andjust want data from the machine. (0) Comments 02-10-2009 - Interesting Copyright and Government I was looking through public records and came across how some County Recordes give information away for free and others charge a fee. Anyhow, I was shocked where I saw this message for Salt Lake County: Attention: The compilations of materials on this website are copyright property of Salt Lake County. From my understanding, 90% of government data is public domain. Except for national security stuff. In fact I knew someone that was trying to print NASA photo's on T-Shirts and that is what brought up the debate. It makes sense that you already pay for the government data through taxes, so it typically belongs in public domain. To sum it up I was shocked to see a government agency copyrighting material and information. (0) Comments 01-27-2009 - 93 Year old man freezes to death, with my own twist This here (MARVIN E SCHUR). Here is the ironic part, from what I can tell, the state of Florida had some money for him in relation to FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY. Even though he was living in michigan, it was a different power and light company. (0) Comments 01-09-2009 - VW stock and what happened I while back I remember hearing something about VW stock and tons of people shorting it. What I missed was how tons of money was won and lost. I found an excellent article that explained it in detail. To sum it up, porsche spent 3 years buying up VW stock. Speculative investors thought that VW stock had no place to go but down, so they started shorting the stock. This means betting the price will go down. Anyhow, porsche kept on buying the stock until there was almost nothing left. People that shorted the stock lost big. My summation doesn't do the article justice, so you must read his version. (0) Comments 12-17-2008 - ImageMagick html2ps and pixelating problem Lately, I've been trying to add .pdf automatic generation to one of my websites. The steps I had been taking was:
convert -density 350x350 test.ps test.pdf (1) Comments 12-12-2008 - www.iTrackmine.com A friend of mine works over at www.iTrackmine.com. He was telling me about the system and I thought I should write something about it. It's a system that tracks basically anything with a barcode. A good application would be if you manage a DVD collection. You would be able to track which friends or family memebers you lend you videos to. When he first mentioned it to me I had something called a catscanner that I had bought off ebay for $5 for a different project from years ago. I have to laugh looking back cause I was looking all over the house trying to find anything with a barcode to scan in. I was shocked to see how very few things had a problem. I think some cheap dollar store funny glasses with fake mustache was the only thing that it hiccuped on. Anyhow, if you are looking for something to manage your collection of almost anything, then I'd take a couple minutes to check them out. (0) Comments
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