Date::Manip Error in Ubuntu 10.04 : “XMLTV requires a Date::Manip timezone of +0000 to work properly” — caused by incompatibility between Date::Manip version 6.00 and XMLTV
(tags: date-manip xmltv breakage mythtv ubuntu lucid 10.04)Misco.ie : another PC component vendor in Ireland, recently came up on ILUG
(tags: shopping components hardware ireland)
Month: June 2010
Signature-based AV is failing : on average across the AV industry, 40% block rates just after 0-hour of a new malware sample, rising to 60% after 5 days. sounds like the AV industry is losing, if this chart is valid. (via Terry Zink)
(tags: via:tzink malware av fail accuracy detection false-negatives scanners viruses)Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs [PDF] : sort-and-merge is likely to be faster on future SIMD-capable multicore CPUs RSN
(tags: sort merge hash join databases performance cpu simd multicore)
Network Advertising Initiative: Opt-Out of Behavioural Advertising : ‘developed for the express purpose of allowing consumers to “opt out” of the behavioral advertising delivered by our member companies’ — opt out of the top 50 or so ad programs with a couple of clicks, via Jordan Sissel. great stuff
(tags: ads advertising browser cookies via:jordansissel google marketing opt-out privacy tracking web behavioral)
Monitor anything and get free notifications on your iPhone – amix.dk : using notifo.com, which has an app in the App Store allowing anyone to send push notifications via their web site. I can see lots of uses for this, not least to evade SMS fees ;)
(tags: notification push sms iphone notifo)
Did a denial-of-service attack cause the stock-market “flash crash?” : wonderful; our world’s economies are now more networked than ever, and vulnerable to the attacks which that enables. Have we learned nothing from the last few years?
(tags: networking internet ddos stock-markets security)
All slides/notes from the first 2 days of Velocity 2010 : PDFs, docs, links
(tags: slides scalability velocity conferences scaling pdf)Introduction to Unity Launcher « Canonical Design : The new netbook-oriented launcher/dock UI for Ubuntu. Nice! Great to see this kind of open design process, too
(tags: canonical ui unity linux gnome desktop design)
The Deus Ex 3 demonstration, blow-by-blow : PC Gamer : big thumbs-up for ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’. I’m looking forward to it
(tags: deus-x games xbox previews)We’re Back… so long MongoDB! · Blue74 : MongoDB war story — records going missing, eek
(tags: mongodb mysql nosql rant stability beta)Hadoop and the fight against shape-shifting spam : Yahoo! anti-spam engineers talk about their extensive use of Hadoop and scale
(tags: hadoop yahoo anti-spam filtering)Petit: Log Analysis : log analyzer; removes common strings and patterns from log files, identifying outliers and hapaxen as “interesting”. also does charting of frequencies etc.
(tags: logs logging analysis loganalysis syslog tools)self-replicating configuration in Conway’s Game Of Life created : The “spaceship” configuration replicates in 33699586 generations, using 2 construction arms and a volley of gliders circulating between them
(tags: via:newscientist game-of-life life cellular-automata gliders self-replicating)
UPC file-sharing court action begins – The Irish Times : it’s with Mr Justice Peter Charleton again — the Colmcille-misquoting judge from the Eircom case. here’s hoping the Data Protection Commissioner gets off their arse and does their job this time around
(tags: upc ireland law filesharing irma copyright)
SimpleRip: Ripping/Encoding DVDs to Xvid with Mencoder : good idea — generate a mencoder command-line using a friendlier Javascript single-page UI (via OMGUbuntu)
(tags: via:omgubuntu avi mplayer conversion divx encoding howto rip xvid video mencoder)build a Yagi-Uda wifi booster from styrofoam and copper wire : nifty link from Heise; works for 802.11b and 11g. Unfortunately I think my own wifi issues are to do with dying AP hardware
(tags: wifi 802.11g 802.11b wireless yagi antennas diy hacking hardware)MapReduce as a way to cope with high-latency memory : interesting thoughts from Kragen
(tags: kragen thoughts random mapreduce memory speed latency)
O2 iPhone Customers – Get out of contract! – boards.ie : wow, O2 Ireland seem to have dropped the ball something rotten here. customers taking advantage of this in droves to escape the heinous 18-month lock-in
(tags: o2 ireland loophole contract law)Designing an Integrated Map for a Visionary Public Transport System for Dublin : excellent work at creating a usable public transport map, and proposing a small, consolidated set of Bus Rapid Transit routes (via Antoin)
(tags: via:antoin bus travel dublin ireland rapid-transit public-transport design usability maps mapping)
Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm : just *male* genitalia, mind. I dread to think of what the training corpus looks like
(tags: chatroulette algorithms machine-learning genitalia nsfw slashdot)
Balsamiq Mockups : create wireframe mock-ups quickly, via Confluence/JIRA/desktop/fogbugz plugins (via Joe)
(tags: via:jdrumgoole wireframes mockups ui web usability balsamiq layout prototype)
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1900 Hybrid TV (1179) – dabs.com : Back looking at these again, as Padraig noted the SundTek drivers are closed source; at least pvrusb2 is OSS
(tags: hauppauge drivers hardware linux tv tuners os)SEO Is Mostly Quack Science : ‘There is no hypothesis being tested here. It’s just graphs, and misleading graphs at that. The sad part is, SEOMoz is as close as the SEO industry comes to real science. They may be presenting specious results in hopes of looking like they know what they’re talking about, but at least they are collecting some sort of data. Everything else in the field is either anecdotal hocus-pocus or a decree from Matt Cutts. When you hire an SEO consultant, what you are really paying for is domain experience in the not-failing-at-web-design field.’
(tags: seo ted-dziuba rants science seomoz quality correlation statistics google)
gitPAN : CPAN and BackPAN, as a set of git repositories; essentially a read-only view of all CPAN releases, ever. good plan; I like the way git is useful as a kind of general-purpose distributed archive system
(tags: git gitpan cpan backpan perl releases archives history version-control)SundTek MythTV analog setup : ‘Analog TV is working again with MythTV which comes with the final Ubuntu 10.04 release’ — MythTV support is officially tested by SundTek support staff! I think we have a clear winner
(tags: sundtek tv usb hardware linux mythtv)Sundtek MediaTV Pro (TV Cards) – Ubuntu Linux Hardware Compatibility List : ‘I can recommend that USB device, I never had a device which has such an easy installation under linux.’
(tags: sundtek tv usb hardware linux mythtv)SundTek Media TV Pro Linux install docs : official, and pretty voluminous. looks good
(tags: sundtek tv usb hardware linux mythtv)
Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1900 Hybrid Analogue and Digital USB TV Tuner : seems to be a safe option for MythTV analog TV and DVB-T support on this side of the pond
(tags: tv hauppauge linux mythtv ireland tuner)pvrusb2 Linux drivers for the Hauppauge product line : Jesus Christ Hauppauge. get a clue already, why are you making it so hard for Linux users to buy your bloody hardware?!
(tags: htpc linux pvr mythtv usb hauppauge pvrusb2 drivers hardware)Today’s Guardian : Phil Gyford reworks the Grauniad’s website using their open content API. I really like the navigation and just-the-text nature, but I still feel a need to know what other articles are “nearby”, which this doesn’t quite provide. Still, excellent work
(tags: phil-gyford news newspapers gu guardian design usability reading readability webdesign)
Emoji Symbols in Unicode: PILE OF POO : “unchi” / “unchimaaku”, a little Emoji icon of a dog turd. unfortunately still in “proposed” status, not yet a Unicode point, boo
(tags: poo funny emoji unicode unchi shit)practical Linux commands quick-ref sheet : from Padraig Brady. lots of nice one-liners I wasn’t familiar with
(tags: padraig-brady bash cli linux reference sysadmin tips commands)Point Village Market : a new outdoor weekend market for Dublin, at the O2 on the north quays. good farmer’s market selection, and plans to do free-for-all stalls for random members of the public to sell “yard sale” type stuff, a la the Dublin Flea Market
(tags: the-point o2 ireland dublin markets farmers-markets shopping via:sboyle)
Petrodvorets Watch Factory’s black list : vendors of fake Raketas — pretty much all of the current eBay auctions are on this list :(
(tags: fakes raketa watches ebay)Russian watch RAKETA 24 hour white dial. Polar design. on eBay : 24-hour analog CCCP-era Raketa watches. want. almost definitely fake going by the price, but still very nifty (via adampsyche)
(tags: russia raketa watches analog want 24-hour via:adampsyche)
This page has been floating around in links over the past couple of weeks, as a collection of test cases to compare e-mail address validating regular expressions. However, watch out: it’s wrong.
RFC822/2822 defines an email address with a bare IP address domain part as using:
domain-literal = [CFWS] "[" *([FWS] dcontent) [FWS] "]" [CFWS]
In other words, this test case is not valid at all:
[email protected]
Instead, it should be:
IPInsteadOfDomain@[127.0.0.1]
ditto for the other addrs using IP addresses in the domain part. They’re rare, but the non-bracketed form is definitely not legal and should not be considered so in the test cases.
I sent a mail to the author a few days ago without response, hence this post.