Author Archives: Donncha

Yes! Mozilla can edit html comments in textareas! Now I can edit the template in Galeon without starting up Netscape!
Update! But it screws up hyper links. It’s probably *correct* in doing so but that behaviour is very annoying! I’ll have to keep Netscape around for occasional usage still.

Galeon 1.2.6 released! Woo! Must go take a look!

Google Search: “go to hell” – check out the first link! Didn’t Google do something similar a few years ago?

Roland Tanglao’s Weblog looks like a good source of developer information.

o r g a n i c a – another weblog ecology site.

Rasmus explains why PHP support for Apache 2 is still “experimental”.

Updating the firmware on your Scan SC-2500 DVD player.

Post-processing outdoor digital colour photographs. The hints on using the curves tool worked great on one of my own photos!

How the dinosaurs really died out

Must take a look here soon.

Great! I heard this a few days ago, but here’s the Register’s take on the new way to exploit Outlook Express. Using this will get past even the draconian protection I have at work 🙁

Google’s Original Sin

Yes, Open Source has bugs too, but I still trust it. Unfortunately when you advocate something to the belittlement of other choices you have to live with the consequences.

Why Ice cream tastes so good after a breakup.

How sleepy is your MySQL server?
Here’s a simple way to find out:

$ mysqladmin pro \
| awk '/Sleep/ {a+=$12} END {print a/NR}' \
| sed 's/\.[0-9]*$//'

This will print out a single figure, the average time sleeping MySQL processes spend asleep.
If that figure is high then maybe it’s time to follow some of the hints Jeremy posted, and linked to below and reduce the number of idle processes on your server!