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Wireless connection dropouts in Lucid Lynx
Since my upgrade to Lucid, I have been experiencing dropouts on my wireless connection and since the solutions that I had found on the net did not solve the above problem, I decide to script a temporary fix until it gets fixed in (K)Ubuntu or in the Kernel. I found that that after I get…
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Lucid Lynx — Downgrading from PHP 5.3
I hit this bug after the upgrade to PHP 5.3 (which happened with my Kubuntu Upgrade to Lucid Lynx). I read in another bug report that this issue was fixed in the latest snaphshot, so I tried compiling from source – using the latest 5.3 snapshot. This didn’t go well, as I hit a seg…
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Hacker News Sorter
I have just recently created a bookmarklet to sort the news stories on the front page of HN. There are a few minor issues that I have noticed but, should work for most parts. When you click on the bookmarklet, two links get created at the top as shown in the screenshot below: Clicking on…
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InnoDB + MySQL Implicit Autocommit
Today, I spent about an hour debugging a part of the script that I was writing. This is what I faced: I had a function writing some logs into a table. The function was pretty simple as all it had to do was insert some data into a row (using the data passed to it).…
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Getting visitor location in PHP.
I had been trying to track the location of visitors based on their IP addresses. I ran into problems earlier while trying to acheive that and gave up. Today, I Finally managed to do that. Thanks to the geodb availablehere. I hacked up a function that would accept an IP address as a parameter and…
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news.ycombinator search
I am a regular reader of news.yc and like most people using that site, I wanted to be able to search the site. Since the site does not have an inbuilt search functionality, I created yc.news search here. Just like in SansJ, one can use the search plugin (FF and IE7 only) and search from…
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Scriptaculous Draggable in Action.
(If you are in a hurry, go here, that is what the post is about.) It’s finally over!! Relief followed by pride-both preceded by an Idea- pretty much summarizes my feeling now. Recently I got a HTC Touch for my dad, which, I played around with for a while.I somehow feel, that, the Input devices…
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Online Spell Checker…
This can be viewed online on my Social Search site Sansj.com. try searching for Yahoi Search. It is a good thing have a spell checker facility in a Search Engine, people are not always correct with their spelling and yeah sometimes typos do occur. I read somewhere about using a statistical model to develop a…
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SansJ.com updates.
My Social Search Engine:SansJ has had some updates to it’s interface recently. Most notable is the use of CSS based Buttons instead of standard HTML buttons. Thanks to some excellent free web 2.0-ish icons available here, I have been able to create some good-looking CSS buttons.The new menubar at the top has been created with…
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Scriptaculous Slider in action.
Ever since I had it in my mind-even though I could not think of any immediate benefit for my Social Search Site SansJ-I couldn’t make myself to code something that had a more practical value for my site.After about a week of experimenting (I am very average, but, lazy coder) finally managed to create a…