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Soulfy – Omen

Merlijn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:28:39 +0000

I am getting old. I am mostly listening to music which was released at least 10 years ago. Not visiting rockconcerts anymore.
but… once in a while, I “discover” a newly released album which really makes me think “WOW!!!” the first time I listen to it.

Soulfly – Omen

It kicks ass!

APC.php

Merlijn — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:40:04 +0000

if you google for “apc.php?SCOPE” you get 202.000 hits. I opened at random (more or less) 10 of those. All giving a shitload of information about the host and file structure.

Seems pretty unsafe for me to have that information stored in Google.

Memcache(d)

Merlijn — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:49:45 +0000

Recently I started (finally) with implementing caches for our php projects. I extended the database class with additional query methods utilizing memcache.

While writing some unittests, i was confused by the documentation of php regarding memcache.
I always wondered why there was a pecl/memcache and a pecl/memcached. I assumed one was the client API, the other the server API (or something similar).

BEEEP! WRONG!

Seems that both are libraries providing methods for accessing the memcached (memcache daemon).

You have to choose one! or… use them both… but have to be very aware which one you are using :)

I have chosen to use memcached. Primarly because it’s only a wrapper to libmemcached (which is a big plus in my eyes).

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Merlijn — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:02:55 +0000

While rereading my diary, I encountered a passage from life of Pi, written by Yann Martel:

Als wij burgers onze kunstenaars niet ondersteunen, offeren we onze fantasie op aan de brute realiteit, zodat we tenslotte nergens meer in geloven en onze dromen geen waarde meer hebben.

In Dutch..sorry… Makes me think a certain Dutch politician… shame on you Wilders, Shame on you.

duh :)

Merlijn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:03:05 +0000

Someone on chat asked me what switches he had to use to execute php on the command-line. He tried to execute a php script, and all the command returned was the contents of the script, instead of executing it.

At least… that was what he claimed. I don’t use php on the cli a lot, so just to be sure i wrote a quick test script, which executed flawless.

So I took a look at the script he tried to execute:

echo html_entities_decode(file_get_contents($argv[0]));

So the script did exactly what was asked ;) outputting the content of the script itself, instead of outputting the content of the file given as 1st argument to the script.

hi hi.
He overlooked the fact that the 0-key of the argv array holds the name of the script itself, instead of the 1st argument given on the cli :)

Mysterious crashes of netatalk on freeBSD 8

Merlijn — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:25:13 +0000

I experienced mysterious crashes of the netatalk daemon installed on a freeBSD8 box. The apfd was advertised with mdnsresponder, but at the moment I tried connecting to the shares, the afpd crashed. Nothing showed in the usual logs. I tried several debugging modes, but nothing seemed to give any clue where I had to find the cause of the crashes.
I took another look the /var/log directory, wondering which logfile could provide me with any clue.

Turned out that auth.log was giving information:
Feb 14 08:35:06 zaphod afpd[9740]: twist Erlkoenig.gargleblaster.org to /bin/echo "You are not welcome to use afpd from Erlkoenig.gargleblaster.org."

Aha! this ringed a bell! I recently installed denyhosts, which uses hosts.allow.

A quick look in hosts.allow gave :

# The rest of the daemons are protected. ALL : ALL \ : severity auth.info \ : twist /bin/echo "You are not welcome to use %d from %h."

So adding:
#netatalk afpd: ALL: allow
Did the trick… netatalk is working as expected again.

What really happened…

Merlijn — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:14:14 +0000

The answer is yes

Merlijn — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:38:04 +0000

Ask Slashdot: Do You Hate Being Called an “IT Guy?”

69.69.69.69

Merlijn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:27:31 +0000

merlijn@nietzsche 4 ~$ nslookup 69.69.69.69 Server: 10.1.2.5 Address: 10.1.2.5#53


Non-authoritative answer:

69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa	name = the-coolest-ip-on-the-net.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from: arpa nameserver = I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. arpa nameserver = L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

Stupid, stupid stupid!

Merlijn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:24:51 +0000

No other word for it. Stupid Americans.
How on earth do you think of assigning a patent to Microsoft for something which was invented around the time that Bill Gates crawled out of his mother?

Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!
The patent