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I just bought the new Killswitch Engage album As Daylight Dies and it’s freakin’ awesome. It’s actually better than I thought it would be. They seem to be able to find a happy medium between heavy melodic and thrash. Funny, when I was nineteen a girl I worked with told me that I’d be listening to country music

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After doing a bit of research I’ve discovered that there are big changes in the works for SquirrelMail. Recently I’ve raved about the RoundCube project and lamented the current state (and bleak future) of my beloved SquirrelMail. It took some digging but I’ve found the current 1.5 roadmap (on the road toward 2.0) for SquirrelMail and it looks promising. It appears that the development team is implementing a new template architecture which will allow the UI to be completely detached from the core code base. This would allow for manipulation of all aspects of the SquirrelMail interface via templates while …read more »

I’ve been using SquirrelMail now for a couple years on my web/mailserver to read my IMAP e-mail when I’m away from home. It works, but the interface is outdated and ugly. I’ve really been looking for something a bit better-looking and containing more advanced functionality (such as drag and drop and folder level message deletion). It doesn’t appear that the SquirrelMail development team has any plans on revamping the interface anytime soon so I’ve been searching for a replacement that will provide the functionality and appearance I’m looking for. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bashing SquirrelMail; it’s functioned well over the past couple years and it has allowed me to actually use my mail server for my primary e-mail (by providing remote access). Unfortunately SquirrelMail just seems to be stagnating developmentally.So, a couple days ago while searching for replacements I came across a new project called RoundCube. This project, although currently in beta, …read more »

After completion of a huge personal project requiring the creation of amost two dozen DVDs I realized I had a major issue with data corruption. All the DVDs were unusable, corrupted in various ways. The video files seemed to be fine but once they got to a DVD all was lost. I spent two solid weeks on this project only to have to throw away all my work.

I was using Pinnacle Studio 9 to both edit the video and burn the DVD. Editing and creating the video with Pinnacle worked okay; burning the DVDs with Pinnacle, I found, was the mistake. Once I discovered all my DVDs were nothing more than coasters I started doing some research and found I wasn’t the only one who had the problem. Turns out the burning engine in the software is defective and creates corrupted DVDs.

I’d already spent $80 on the software …read more »

McCaskill won, amendment 2 passed, the minimum wage increase passed, and Democrats …read more »

Several months back I had a catastrophic system failure on my webserver. I was, at the time, running Mandrake Linux and I was using tar to archive all my file, then backing them up on my fileserver. I noticed one day that I was getting core dumps and segmentation faults all over the place and when I tried to reboot the system it died completely. I wouldn’t even boot.

My first thought was that it was a memory problem. I ran a program to test all the memory and it all checked out. I then thought maybe it was a motherboard problem and maybe it was somehow corrupting files. After moving the site to a totally separate box I noticed that the same thing occurred. This time, however, I received a message from cron telling me that there were segmentation faults during my archive job.

Turns out that I was exceeding the max filesize limit for tar. According to the documentation tar can only handle a file up to 2 gigs. My file was 6 gigs. tar handled it okay until the file grew to over 6 gigs, at that point things went very wrong and important system files were …read more »

[Update: I've since discovered you can actually do this on the Windows version when you set up your instance.  It's just a checkbox that needs to be set.]

I recently had a problem with not being able to browse uploaded files in Wordpress after uploading. In Wordpress when writing a page or a post you have the ability to upload files to the webserver and include them (as full-size originals or thumbnails) to the post.

I was able to upload the files without issue and Wordpress created the thumbnail as well. However, I never received the “Browse” tab that would allow me to add the images to the editor (an subsequently to my post).

After some Googling I discovered the issue. I’m running …read more »