This is the size a laptop should be. At most.
2008 May 31
A MySQL schema for the domestic part of the geonames database. If you find any errors, please leave a comment below.
Moving down the hierarchy of needs
2008 May 29
If moving up the hierarchy of needs causes more worries (like environmentalism:
Musical Automated Mario Levels
2008 May 29
Taking the “fully automatic level” idea to the next level.
I especially like the self-referential Mario covering Anime covering Megaman 2 and the Mario covering Anime covering Mario.
The Lion Makes it Awesome
2008 May 28
Ma Hua
2008 May 26
ndiswrapper in Fedora 8
2008 May 25
Based on the name, the dkms-ndiswrapper-1.48-1.fc8.rf claims to support Fedora 8. It is the latest version from the yum repository. Unfortunately, it no longer seems to compile (much less install) correctly.
Moment of Mourning Online
2008 May 25
A dip in Google search traffic during the three minute moment of silence on May 19 mourning the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake.
I found this command line online for converting videos to H263 .3gp files in Linux:
ffmpeg -i inputfile.avi -s qcif -vcodec h263 -acodec mp3 -ar 8000 -ab 32 -y outputfile.3gp
It seems to be a bit out of date, as it gives:
WARNING: The bitrate parameter is set too low. It takes bits/s as argument, not kbits/s
Unknown encoder 'mp3'
Those two problems are easily fixed:
Using Google AdSense for Search in Drupal
2008 May 2
Google AdSense for Search has a "Open results within my own site" option, which allows you to display search results within pages on your own site using javascript. By default, it relies on a "q=" GET parameter, which conflicts with Drupal.
You can get around this problem by renaming Google's "q" parameter to "as_q"
