EroDevMisc http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/ Data Is Life : Miscellaneous Development Stuff We Do en-us 2007-05-03T05:11:28+00:00 Another External RAID Device http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000084.shtml After the Maxtor OneTouch RAID became flakey last fall, we moved to a non-RAID solution for Fire's WinXP machine and... Other / Misc Earth 2007-05-03T05:11:28+00:00 Maxtor One Touch III Review and Disassembly http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000083.shtml Update May 1 2007: This device started being flakey in fall of 2006 and became unusable in March 2007. Disappointing.... Other / Misc Earth 2006-03-08T20:40:13+00:00 Data Safety and Disk Space Expansion, March 2006 http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000082.shtml Fire has been running out of room on her drives for the last year or so. After a series of... Other / Misc Earth 2006-03-08T13:32:54+00:00 The Kratom Report http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000079.shtml The process of setting up the new kratom went smoothly enough. I began by completely formatting the drive, then I... Other / Misc mindwarp 2005-04-12T09:57:31+00:00 PHP Crosss Server include_path http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000077.shtml We have a somewhat complicated dev setup, although not terribly so. It makes it complicated to get the php library... Other / Misc Earth 2005-04-07T03:19:45+00:00 Windows Permissions / ACLs http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000076.shtml Advanced Sharing must be turned on! Tools->Folder Options->View->use simple file sharing : OFF I have the following directory structure: d:\erowid.org\a_writeable\... Other / Misc Earth 2005-04-02T06:23:34+00:00 FileUp 3.0 http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000062.shtml FileUp is the first java app I wrote and fire has been using it for years to upload things to... Other / Misc Earth 2004-03-14T21:53:48+00:00 trust networks http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000049.shtml http://trust.mindswap.org/... Other / Misc Earth 2004-02-19T22:41:54+00:00 PHP 4.3.4 install bullshit http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000042.shtml after a couple hours of wasting my time trying to figure out why the php 4.3.4 ports install wouldn't compile... Other / Misc Earth 2004-02-12T02:15:49+00:00 Refactoring Erowid 3 HTML Lib http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000040.shtml Things move slowly in mail archive land. Against my better judgement initially, I was convinced to refactor a bunch of... Web Development General Earth 2004-01-30T12:13:25+00:00 Turing Sniff http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000039.shtml As I was browsing the assortment of spam that got through the filter tonight, I read something that was clearly... Other / Misc Earth 2004-01-30T09:23:02+00:00 MailArchive Features ToDo http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000038.shtml To Add: Threading - pre-process the archive and look for connections between messages based on headers: References: , In-Reply-To:, and... Mail Archiving Earth 2004-01-19T07:38:21+00:00 Pear MIME Decode Bug http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000037.shtml I think I discovered and killed a bug in PHP's Pear MIME Decode code. Basically the main problem is in... Mail Archiving Earth 2004-01-05T07:55:01+00:00 MySQL 4.0.13 FullText Sucks http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000036.shtml So, after two attempts at using the MySQL built in "search" feature called FullText indexing, I have decided to abandon... Mail Archiving Earth 2004-01-05T02:11:14+00:00 Earth's Web Dev Aphorisms http://www.erowid.org/devel/misc/archives/000034.shtml Maxim 1: If you make a webform, People will fill it out. Correllary: A large portion of people will misuse... Web Development General Earth 2003-12-16T03:55:53+00:00