PHP compile error: Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported.

Written by vidarlo on 20081020 in english and Linux and software with one comment.

I got a strange error when compiling PHP today: *** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported. *** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped. *** Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library *** dependencies of module libphp5. Therefore, libtool will create *** a static module, that should work as long as […]

Spam, spam, lovely spam.

Written by vidarlo on 20080929 in english and rants and security with 2 comments.

I don’t know what struck me, but around noon today spam literaly poured in. I’ve set kmail to check my mail every 10 minutes, which usually means there’s quite a few, but not extreme amounts of spam. However, around noon today, there was ten times(!) as many e-mails waiting for me as normal. Over 2000 […]

Useful network utilities for your USB memory stick

Written by vidarlo on 20080814 in english and microsoft and software with no comments.

I carry a USB memory stick, with the most often needed utilities for network setup and debugging. It’s only windows software, since I tend to use my laptop if I have it. If I don’t have my laptop, only windows machines tend to be around. I currently carry the following software: 3com IP calculator A […]

Tiny script for returning n last blogposts and excerpt from them.

Written by vidarlo on 20080611 in english and software with no comments.

This is a tiny script for retrieving info about blog posts from wordpress.

Evil Mad Scientist Lab

Written by vidarlo on 20080418 in english and hardware and humor with 4 comments.

I wish I had the kind of creativity that one needs to come up with things like this, this or this. Sadly, I don’t so I’ll just have to copy his ideas and have fun with ’em… And dream of coming up with something.

The physics store.

Written by vidarlo on 20080322 in english and humor with 2 comments.

OK, I laugh every time I read this. It’s simply awesome, and I wonder how many orders I’d get if I’d put this up for sale at ebay… A picture of a painted electron should do the trick. And well, say 1.49USD per gallon for the zero-volume paint. I imagine the postage should be dirty […]

Booting DEC PW500AU

Written by vidarlo on 20080311 in english and hardware and Linux with no comments.

I’ve got an ancient Digital Equipment Corporations Personal Workstation 500AU, containing an EV56 Alpha cpu. Quite nice. Got no CD or floppy station, so only option seems to be net-booting, which is quite straight forward on about any computer I’ve touched that’s not an X86… On most Alpha systems, you just enter boot -flags ‘a’ […]

Apt on OpenSuSE 10.3

Written by vidarlo on 20080118 in english and Linux and software with 4 comments.

OpenSuSE has yast2 and zypper, so why apt you might ask? Because apt-get is simply superior to zypper and yast2, and apt is far far quicker than zypper on resolving depencies. And apt-cache search is nicer than zypper’s search feature. So for me, apt is a nice tool… To get Apt working, you’ll have to […]

Howto defeat EU’s data retention act

Written by vidarlo on 20080106 in english and privacy with 4 comments.

Some times it pays to read slashdot at -1. Today, I came across this nice post about defeating EU’s data retention act on telecommunications. It’s worth reading and using. I’ve taken the text from slashdot and posted here, since I believe it’s in the authors interest to make this as public as possible. I urge […]

Strange javascript experience.

Written by vidarlo on 20080104 in aids and english and humor and software with no comments.

I’m currently writing a bit on aids again, and I’m currently working on a dynamic resizing function that resizes images to fit in the view-port of the browser. Check for example this image, which should neatly fit the height of your viewport. To correct for the navbar on top, I need to subtract 120 pixels… […]