Three months ago I posted about getting my Netgear WG511 802.11 b/g wireless card to work in Linux. Well, this weekend I figured out a much, much simpler way, and wanted to update my documentation. In my previous post I discussed that I had tried the Prism54 method without luck and resorted to the ndiswrapper. Then I proceeded to give lengthy instructions on what I had to do to get the ndiswrapper to work. The last thing I wrote was that...

In MySQL 4.1 and up, the properties of the TIMESTAMP column type change from YYYYMMDDHHMMSS to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. If you have built anything in PHP that relies on the old format, it will break if you upgrade from older versions of MySQL (such as this blog!). If you want the same view of a timestamp field in 4.1.x as it was in in earlier mysql versions, you can add a “+ 0″ to the column name. SELECT ts_col + 0 FROM...

I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out how to get the mod_jk connector working so that I can use tomcat and httpd together. The problem, like most linux operations, is that it’s very poorly documented. Not only that, but the decent documentation you find is either outdated or is very specific to the writers desired configuration, and things don’t always work right when you try to revert those instructions back...

I’ve been using an image pre-loader that I wrote myself for several years now, whenever I need to load an external jpeg into my movie. I’ve also been in the habbit of re-naming my .jpg images to .jjj in order to trick AOL’s image compression “feature.” What I never expected is that AOL would also find a way to break my pre-loader! As far as I can tell, AOL is somehow and for some reason tacking on an extra...