Douglas Thrift's Blog: September 2004 Archives

A collection of random thoughts, commentary, and crazed opinions.

Friday, September 17, 2004

Hell, I Don't Even Like MySQL!

Tags: database, freebsd, insanity, terminal, unix

Apparently, I'm supposed to be some sort of expert at fixing FreeBSD ports. About two weeks ago, I reported that the databases/mysql41-server port that had just been updated to MySQL 4.1.4 was broken on FreeBSD 4.10 in Problem Report ports/71352, and I didn't include a patch because I hadn't come up with one. Since then, I have received emails from at least four random people asking if I had found a solution. If I had found a solution to this, you would think that I would have submitted it as a follow up to the bug report, but I guess some people don't.

As you probably inferred from the title of this entry (if you didn't I don't know what to tell you), I don't really care for MySQL anyway, but I am using it because of reasons stated in If You Can Read This You Don't Need Glasses. And you are reading this because, the previous version MySQL 4.1.3 is still installed.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Firefox 0.10 Bothers Me

Tags: insanity, release, software, stuff, things

So, I upgraded to Firefox 0.10 (1.0 Preview Release for those of you silly enough to believe such things). So being insane, I tried out the new Live Bookmarks feature, it worked fine with my Atom Feed and seemed to work fine with my LiveJournal Atom Feed, but when I tried using it with some of my Top Secret Zoe feeds, all it did for me was say "Live Bookmark feed failed to load." This, of course, was obviously wrong behavior since I am quite certain that Zoe outputs correct Atom 0.3 and RSS 2.0. After wondering about why this would happen, I thought, "Oh, yeah, Zoe's feeds don't have <title/>'s!" Upon further inspection of its behavior with LiveJournal feeds, I discovered that it was just not displaying untitled entries, which is horrible since both standards allow for untitled items, and RSS explicitly does.

While researching this problem on Google, I discovered that they took out the alternate stylesheet switcher thingy, although, after inspection, I discovered that it still exists for viewing XML (moved from bottom left to bottom right).

I'm also bothered by the fact that there isn't a Firesomething that works with it yet, but that's just me being impatient.

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Monday, September 6, 2004

Feeping Creaturism

Tags: c++, documentation, insanity, release, software, stuff, things, xslt

In a sudden fit of randomness (well, not really), I decided to add a Daily Jargon thingy to my Computers section. In the making of the program that gives you these wonderful pieces of hacker culture, I helped Jay find some horrible bugs in his Menes Library, and then switched to using XSL/T for the parts that had the bugs after they were fixed. Not, however, because of the bugs, but because it (XSL/T) is better suited to what I wanted to do and because Jay urged me to do so.

So, here are some of the feeping creatures that jargon.cgi contains:

Path	Description	Example
^/daily/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})?$	Displays a glossary entry for each day. Adding YYYY-MM-DD will give you the entry for that date.	/daily/2004-09-05
^/random/(\d+)?$	Displays a random glossary entry for each request. Adding a decimal number will give you the entry that would come up if that number were produced randomly.	/random/357
^/[0A-Z]/.*$	Displays the given glossary entry.	/F/feeping-creaturism.html

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Friday, September 3, 2004

404 This!

Tags: dooom, insanity, patch, php

Take that, Movable Type! My php-mt.php.patch destroys your non-working dynamic pages error page template lameness for good.

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Thursday, September 2, 2004

Movable Type 3.1 or Why PHP is Evil

Tags: insanity, patch, perl, php

So being the software masochist I am, I decided to upgrade from Movable Type 3.0D to 3.1. And because I'm insane, I tried the Build Only Archive Templates Dynamically, however, that made it decide not to actually use my templates; so, I then chose Set Each Template's Build Options Separately, and miraculously it used my templates again. Their choice of PHP for the dynamic stuff is quite aggravating, especially when they could've just used Perl, so I had to make some more patches: