Category Archives: Site

Run by a geek ’nuff said.

Photos: Gateshead-upon-Tyne to Lancaster

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Chris

I have uploaded the photos me and my friend took whilst driving the journey from Gateshead-upon-Tyne to Lancaster, via the Hartside Pass and the Lake District, quite a few desktop wallpaper photos in the bunch.

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Converting MySQL data to UTF-8

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Chris

I decided to convert my blog to use UTF-8 rather than Latin-1 as its character set, this turned out to be somewhat of a PITA. After changing all the table and database character sets manually I had to convert the … Continue reading →

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Getz

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Chris

WordPress 2.2 aka Getz has been released, once again I performed an upgrade using Subversion generated patches, which had one small problem. They changed the background images in the default style so I had to manually wget them from subversion. … Continue reading →

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WordPress Upgrade

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Chris

Another release of WordPress another potentially PITA upgrade to complete, but it isn’t thanks too patch. I quickly ran a diff of the Subversion repository like so: $ svn diff http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1.2 http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1.3 Piped it to a file and applied it … Continue reading →

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WordPress Upgrade

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Chris

I have upgraded the version of Wordpres my blog runs, for me this is a pain in the ass due to custom modifications. So, this time I decided to use their subversion repository to create a patch and use that, … Continue reading →

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DNS Move

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Chris

Dreamhosts DNS servers are being really slow, and unpredictable! So what I say!? I just moved away from them. Using this free service with along with this and this to serve all my DNS needs. For a total of separate … Continue reading →

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Re: Dude

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Chris

Not totally sure whats going on but one of my posts has ended up on this site, quite bemusing, just search for “Dude”. O.o

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MySQL Quick Admin

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Chris

Its hard to deny that phpMyAdmin is a little slow (being generous) this annoys me when I just want to make a quick change to something in a configuration table and I have to wait 30 seconds for it to … Continue reading →

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Ella

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Chris

As I said earlier I have upgraded my blog here to WordPress 2.1, codenamed ‘Ella’, and I am impressed by the improvements. The categories hierarchy makes sense, I have added a few more categories in to neaten it out a … Continue reading →

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Moved

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Chris

Boo … just in case you didn’t noticed my blog has moved to my own domain cs278.org, I have a Dreamhost plan which I am going to be using for remote backups and web hosting. I will continue to run … Continue reading →

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