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Month: May 2006

  • MP3.com weirdness

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  • Spam Wars – The Empire strikes back

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  • Nintendo and iRex gadget excitement

    The last few days caused quite some excitement for me because I got aware of some real good news for me and my geeky, childish mind.

    First off with Nintendo:

    Wow. I’ve been really thinking about pre-ordering the Wii, as soon as it’s possible. Another thing I’ve been thinking of: The controller of the Wii will connect via Bluetooth. Would it be possible to connect it with a standard PC on Windows or Linux using a bluetooth receiver? Could that be possible? Someone to take that idea? Playing Oblivion with the Wii-controller would be incredible. A nice-looking news-site for the Wii seems to be Nintendo Wii News. And this Wii Montage on Google Video pretty much sums up all the fun.

    The second gadged is the iRex iLiad:

    • it has support for non-DRM-ed content
    • LAN/WLAN/USB/SD-MMC/etc. …
    • E-Ink display
    • and it’ll run on some sorts of Linux

    There’s a nice coverage on TeleRead: A first look on the iRex Iliad. If it wouldn’t have a price around 500$, I’d buy it as soon as possible. But I’ll certainly have to think about that again.

  • MovableType rebuild weirdness and blog updates

    I’ve mentioned that there are some problems with this blog in the past. I wasn’t able to fix the problem when users post comments though but I fixed some discomfort on my side.

    I often wondered why rebuilding the monhly archive was done in 100-entries-steps altough I had set the setting 

    EntriesPerRebuild 10

    I somehow came across this topic in the MovableType Community Forums which suggests to modify some multiplicators in one of MovableType’s core files.

    I dug a bit into that and investigated the file lib/MT/App/CMS.pm myself. And there, around line 3495 I found following block, just above the _start_rebuildpages function definition:

    my %Limit_Multipliers = (
    Individual => 1,
    Daily => 2,
    Weekly => 5,
    Monthly => 10,
    Dynamic => 5,
);

    Obviously these are multiplicators to the EnriesPerRebuild setting but I have no idea why this behaviour is neither configurable via the standard configuration options nor why this is not documented anywhere.

    I changed down all of those settings to 1 and now a full site rebuild runs through without any HTTP 500 error, altough the rebuild-status window refreshes much more often now. The commenting error still persists… sigh

    Have also been playing around a bit with another visitor statistics tool to get somehow rid of the LevelTen Hit Counter which has served quite well until now but still has a few annoyances. For example it regulary wants to contact it’s producers homepage for "updates". Besides the privacy issue with this it just doesn’t work on on all of my computers/browsers except one. And it refuses to work until it is up-to-date again. With the help of the Web Traffic Analysis Index of AdvanceScripts Script Resource Directory I found the phpMyVisites PHP package. It showed a nice layout and almost the same functionality as the LevelTen Hitcounter and so I decided to give it a try.

    Currently both hitcounters are running side-by-side so that I can compare them better but I’m looking forward dropping the old one in the not so far future.

  • Spam Wars

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  • Car locking lazyness

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