Category Archives: Computers & Internet

trac error – Unable to get database connection within 0 seconds

Spent the better part of today fighting to get trac installed on my server so I can keep track of development tasks. Finally gave up trying to get the RVSkin version installed as it seemed to be a mess and … Continue reading

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Guess Yahoo doesn’t care about spam anymore

When I get spam, and if I’ve got a few minutes to do so, I’ll usually look up the host and possibly registrar for the domain and forward to their abuse email addresses.Today I got a very obvious phishing attempt … Continue reading

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SWFUpload, Chrome, and error 2038

Started using SWFUpload for another web project of mine to handle uploads, and it’s been working great. But I hit a snag today. Started getting a very vague “IO Error #2038″ message instead of what should have been coming back … Continue reading

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Blocking Baidu

Went through this a year or so ago. The Baidu spider was hammering a forum and I blocked it because after hundreds of thousands of hits they sent me a grand total of 1 visitor. Let it sit for a … Continue reading

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Problem with SyntaxHighlighter and 2 character strings

Had a very odd, very frustrating issue come up trying to get SyntaxHighlighter working on a project I’m working on. When the code to be highlighted was only two characters long it would blank it out and the code would … Continue reading

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Twitter mention spam is a pain

Guess I’m just used to e-mail spam. It’s just always there and Spam Bayes does a pretty decent job of taking care of it. But Twitter mention spam is more irritating. Probably just because it’s relatively new, but irritating anyway. … Continue reading

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USB drive not initialized in Vista

Had an external USB drive decide to fall out on me last week. This is one that’s been a bit problematic in the past. It was originally bought when a 250gb USB was a really big drive and had to … Continue reading

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Kicked out a quick WordPress plugin

Yesterday I went about trying to figure out how to get my latest Tweet up in the header of this site. After looking at a couple of dozen Twitter plugins for WordPress I decided to write my own when I … Continue reading

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Finally installed WPTouch plugin

Like about 2 million other people, I finally downloaded the WPTouch WordPress plugin allowing this site to have a phone friendly version. So far I’m liking it, and it looks much better than the other plugins and themes I checked … Continue reading

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Google Analytics tracking mobile users

Somehow missed this when it first came out. Google Analytics is now showing mobile specific info under the Visitors tab. It shows what devices visitors are using to view your site and also shows what carrier they use.

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