Archive for the ‘geekery’ Category

wifi (WPA) on an acer 7003 laptop with ubuntu gutsy

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

So I inherited a laptop. Or rather, a tabletop since this is more of a luggable computer than anything else. The screen is 17" and the whole lot weighs over 4kg. Still, can't complain about a free laptop, even if one corner is smashed in somewhat. Anyway, hopefully this can save ...

PHP/Wordpress is daft

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I've just had to upgrade wordpress to fix this bug: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5487 - 1. Create a draft post 2. Log out 3. Visit http://yourblog.com/index.php/wp-admin/ is_admin() spots the wp-admin in the request and returns true query.php uses is_admin() to decide to return future, draft or pending posts That's not how you're supposed to do authentication! 'Code ...

Carpathian Mountains

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Just got back from a holiday seeing the in-laws in Romania. We also spent 4 days in the Carpathians, in a small town named Cheia, which is nice country for hiking. Cheia (Key) is so named because of its status as a former  border town between the states of Transylvania and ...

Project Myth [pt1]

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I started cooking up Project Myth after I discovered you can get a DVB-T(Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial) USB stick for £30. Everybody probably knew this already, I was just too lazy to find out. I haven't had a tv tuner card since the 20th century when they cost £100's. This comes ...