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Comment on Nerd Tests by bacon man t16

bacon man t16 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:04 +0000

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Comment on How to Mount a Linux LVM2 Partition in Windows by SheeEttin

SheeEttin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:56:52 +0000

My LVM partition refuses to be recognized. The non-LVM ext2 boot partition shows up fine, but no software I’ve used (ext2fsd, Virtual Volumes, and some others) can recognize it.

Comment on How to Mount a Linux LVM2 Partition in Windows by someone

someone — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:44:11 +0000

I had to use “Run as Administrator” to see anything, and even then, only the boot volume, not the LVM LVs (or PVs) were visible.

Comment on ctype_digit rtfm! by David

David — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:59:03 +0000

function isInteger($x) {return((string)((int)$x) == $x);}

This one is rapidly becoming my One True PHP Party Trick, I’ve posted it so often.

Comment on How to Mount a Linux LVM2 Partition in Windows by CBudz

CBudz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:39:33 +0000

I’m running CentOS 5.1 and Vista and I see nothing… Still looking as well.

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Comment on How To Add Export To Excel To Internet Explorer by Naveen

Naveen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:36:56 +0000

Thank u so much it worked for me.

Comment on User Agent by Chris

Chris — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:53:16 +0000

LOL – That’s great! Thanks for the comment Andrew

Comment on User Agent by Andrew Marsh

Andrew Marsh — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:17:49 +0000

Hiya, came to this blog after seeing your user agent string on whatsmyuseragent.com, so you’ve managed to use it to draw at least one person to your site so far XD

Comment on Nerd Tests by James

James — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:28:55 +0000

54% scored higher (more nerdy),
2% scored the same, and
44% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Somewhat nerdy. I mean face it, you are nerdier than about half the test takers

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Comment on MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum by MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum @Basenetix

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Comment on JW Media Player – A Godsend For Flash Streaming by Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:55:13 +0000

Hey Chris, trying to install red 5 onto my host (bluehost). I downloaded red 5 but am unsure what specific folders to upload. How can I implement it with my playlist? E-mail me! sharptiger999 [at] yahoo [.] com

Will pay via paypal for help!

Comment on MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum by Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:06:23 +0000

In certain cases what you point out about tailoring is true BUT use of commercial compilers actually offer benefits aside from potential bloat.

Again taking MySQL as a case in point, this is their take on the matter (though it doesn’t say much):

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/linux-rpm.html

What you’ll see is that really the requirements for it to run are minimal outside of it’s own libraries and as such there is no real bloat caused from the precompilation.

Actually what you find is that because compilers such as those outlined here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-compilers/ are used, the generated binaries are actually of a better ‘quality’ for a particular CPU architecture than you’d be able to produce using most of the open source alternatives.

Really, if the precompiled code from a major distributor exists for your platform you should use as it, as it’s likely to have been compiled with a pro compiler and therefore run better on your system.

If no specific version for your system exists you may experience some bloat in some cases and might benefit from compiling the software yourself, but this is rare for most mainstream open-source packages that also have commercial variants or ties.

Comment on MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum by James

James — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:45:44 +0000

Edit: When I say “better” I mean more tailored really. Pre-built rpms I expect contain more bloat, due to being pre-configured for all possible cases. If you build from source, that eliminates bloat by not compliling stuff that isn’t compatible with your system… I’m pretty sure that’s why Gentoo exists – to remove bloat that using package managers causes like Yum and Apt.

Comment on MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum by James

James — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:44:01 +0000

Does RHEL not use Yum? I know Fedora does, so normally (ignoring our internal systems) I’d expect a package manager to be used, right?

The only time I’ve used RPMs is when a package isn’t available from yum repos… and surely building from source (not just MySQL, but any software) is better, as it’s tailored specifically for the system you’re using?? I’ve always found that to be the case anyway…

Comment on MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum by Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:51:10 +0000

Well as CentOS is RHEL its package manager is RPM

There are other reasons though why we don’t use inbuilt software management tools to mange some of our software which I’ll not go into here.

RPM’s aren’t just for hacks though, in particular (as this is the example we’re talking about) the MySQL RPM’s are generally better builds than you’d get from doing it from source yourself.

Comment on MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum by James

James — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:24:19 +0000

So does CentOS not have a package manager, like Yum or Apt? I thought manually installing rpm’s was for hacks when package managers screwed things over.

Maybe we should start using Gentoo and build everything from source heh

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Comment on Ping Pong With Nunchucks by nizineultiema

nizineultiema — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:04:13 +0000

very intresting

Comment on Retirement Planning by James

James — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:23:01 +0000

Thinking of retiring to the US Chris? Also, don’t think you meant for all that gumpf before the post…

Comment on How to Mount a Linux LVM2 Partition in Windows by Navaneethan

Navaneethan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:41:33 +0000

Thanks a lot…! It worked well for me too.
After searching a long way on Google, it is finally you who have really helped.

Thanx Lol…!

Comment on JW Media Player – A Godsend For Flash Streaming by Adam

Adam — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:19:12 +0000

Thanks Chris… it seems that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t LOL… I was trying to stream from the publisher demo precisely because I wanted to get sound… the same “streamer=rtmp://xx.xxx.xxx.xx/oflaDemo&file=filename&type=rtmp” DOES work for live streams off the publisher demo but not consistently… sometimes just seems to freeze… ah well… on we go

Comment on JW Media Player – A Godsend For Flash Streaming by Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:58:53 +0000

Hi Adam

I’ve not played with this for a while but a quick search brought up this:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/General-Chat/16066/How-to-stream-live-to-red5-#msg109212

Have you tried that?

Comment on JW Media Player – A Godsend For Flash Streaming by Adam

Adam — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:54:43 +0000

Having found this very cool post I’ve been playing trying to connect the red5 server to the JW Media Player… I can do it no problem with the flv files recorded by the red5 publisher demo, just by passing the correct streamer=rtmp://xx.xxx.xxx.xx/oflaDemo&file=filename&type=rtmp…. but I cannot seem to make it work with live streams, which as far as I can tell should have the same url… have you had any joy with this?

Comment on Dodgy Wordpress Plugins and Themes by OrarmaNaics

OrarmaNaics — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:50:30 +0000

Hello.
I’m new there
Nice forum!

Comment on Dodgy Wordpress Plugins and Themes by Ornathattiche

Ornathattiche — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:27:35 +0000

Hello

As a fresh http://www.coderchris.com user i only wanted to say hi to everyone else who uses this bbs

Comment on Ping Pong With Nunchucks by James

James — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:29:34 +0000

ooooooooooold

Comment on Google Chrome’s Future Support for Extensions by James

James — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:29:07 +0000

I don’t think Google Chrome is meant to be successful. I think they made it just to show Mozilla some cool features – hence why they made it open source, and I can’t remember where, but somewhere they basically said “we want the cool features of Chrome to be in Firefox”, but not in those exact words heh.

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herve76 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:15:02 +0000

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