Comments for Joseph Scott's Blog

Comment on Perl Oneliner: Recursive Search and Replace by Jameson Quave

Jameson Quave — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:46:23 +0000

Thanks a bunch! This saves me a lot of time on a daily basis as I’ve started using this in a script. Just thought I’d come let you know it helped. Although you need to add “quotes” around your find target for this to work properly.

Comment on PEAR Command Line Options by K Y Chan

K Y Chan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:54:25 +0000

Hi Joseph,

Your post help me to understand where is the pear.conf. It is so obvious, but I spent days googling. Thanks for the hint — it is installed in where I installed PEAR when doing a local installation of PEAR.

I copy the pear.conf and renamed it as pear.ini and put it under C:\Windows (default path for PEAR index.php to start the webbased PEAR package manager on my local server). Using this webbased PEAR package manager is a lot more convenient to manage PEAR.

Thanks again!

KYC

Comment on FlightAware: FreeBSD and PostgreSQL by Wave2.org » Blog Archive » PostgreSQL - Rock Solid in the face of forking MySQL

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:43:29 +0000

[...] with the BSD license, another notable release last month was FreeBSD 7.2, a great platform to complement the reliability of PostgreSQL and another way to gain some performance improvements. Speaking of [...]

Comment on CSS Opacity in Internet Explorer (IE) by Oxin

Oxin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:02:13 +0000

Just fyi, I was working on a semi-transparent movable div overtop an image and “filter:alpha(opacity=80);” made it IE compatible but when I moved it, it would hide under the that was behind it in some areas. Adding “width:100%;height:100%;” worked but “zoom:1;” didn’t. Hope this helps someone.

Comment on PHP Database Functions vs. PEAR::DB vs. ADOdb (and PDO) by lotso

lotso — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:38:18 +0000

My own data shows

pgsql TIME: 1.2292530536652
adodb TIME: 3.7784049510956
pear TIME: 6.3551380634308
pdo TIME: 1.2426941394806

from selecting from 1521 rows over 250times from the DB in my laptop.

Comment on Caller ID on Dish Network DVR by Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:08:43 +0000

Is your phone line plugged into your DVR?

Comment on Caller ID on Dish Network DVR by Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:45:31 +0000

I enabled the feature and it hasn’t come up at all. The caller ID works on my phone, but nothing will show up on the tv when anyone calls. I have a friend who has Dish network and it works for them.

Comment on CSS Opacity in Internet Explorer (IE) by Jeepers

Jeepers — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:13:07 +0000

As far as I can see, nobody has mentioned M$’s alpha filter breaking if the page is longer than 2048px in IE7 (possibly other IE versions as well). Many have commented that this is due to Vista, XP, graphic cards, drivers etc etc, all not true! M$ sucks at programming and gets most things wrong basically charging for customers to be beta testers for their next product .

There is no way around the breaking alpha filter except to progmatically limit the size of the element that the filter is to be used on to 2048px high (or for everyone to use Firefox who implement opacity in CSS).

Writing this I have suddenly realised how much I wish M$ IE would just go away as most standards compliant code has to be hacked to work the same in IE!

Comment on Redirect To SSL Using Apache’s .htaccess by AA

AA — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:17:37 +0000

I like the May 23rd updated solution best.
The problem with hard coding a redirect to something like http://site/something, at least for what I want, I just want to add https to whatever they typed. I don’t want to send them to a set home page but rather what they typed, just secure.
That’s why I like the first solution best.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Yay!
I don’t have to worry about where I put this or what site, as long as it has ssl enabled.

Comment on WordPress for iPhone by Art Geigel

Art Geigel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:42:30 +0000

* Nudge *

I’m still having the problem I described on 2/24/09… any ideas/help?

Thanks in advance,

AG3
art@geigel.com