TL;DR: SELECT queries in Perl for numerical columns suddenly turned to zeros after a software upgrade. This is a really peculiar problem I had after my web hosting provider upgraded some database related software on the server: Numbers that were read with SELECT queries from the database were suddenly all zeros. Spoiler: It’s about running [...]
I suddenly got the following line in public_html/error_log: [06-Feb-2019 17:51:53] PHP Deprecated: Automatically populating $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. To avoid this warning set ‘always_populate_raw_post_data’ to ‘-1′ in php.ini and use the php://input stream instead. in Unknown on line 0 So I took a closer look on the logs: [...]
Running ktorrent on Linux Mint 19 (Tara), the famous downwards-arrow icon was invisible on the system tray. Which made it appear like the program had quit when it was actually minimized. Clicking the empty box made ktorrent re-appear. Solution: Invoke the Qt5 configuration tool $ qt5ct and under the Appearance tab set “Style” to gtk2 [...]
Be sure to read the first comment below, where I’m told netstat can actually do the job. Even though I have to admit that I still find lsof’s output more readable. OK, so we have netstat to tell us which ports are opened for listening: $ netstat -n -a | grep “LISTEN ” Thanks, that [...]
Mail with gmail.com as From address vanishing It started really bad: Someone asked me why he hasn’t received an answer from me in two weeks, and I had answered his mail the same day I got his. It turned out that Gmail had thrown mail into the black hole without any warning. Probably the updated [...]
After upgrading to WordPress 4.7.2, and thought it would be smashing fun, I found my “Publish” button disabled due to a draft being saved forever. There have been many complaints about this all over the web. I didn’t manage to find a solution to this problem, just a workaround: Disable autosaving altogether. This is a [...]
This is a note to self on how to create a mirror copy of this blog on my own computer. My own peculiar methods are all over. Create a virtual host on my apache httpd server (port 99) Uncompress the site’s entire public_html directory into the virtual host site’s root directory (that’slazy, I got a [...]
What’s this? This is a note for myself, in case I need a quick replacement for my ADSL connection on the desktop computer (Fedora 12, and oldie). It may seem paradoxical that I’ll read this in order to access the internet (…), but this is probably where I would look first. With my cellphone, which [...]
So the situation is like this: An email I attempted to send got rejected by the recipient’s mail server because my ISP (Netvision) has a poor spam reputation. And it so happens that I have a shell account (with root, possibly) on a server with an excellent reputation. So how do I use this advantage? [...]
A quick summary on how to get my old Fedora 12 to display Emojis when browsing the web (Instagram, for example). Download the EmojiOneColor font from its Github repo. Untar the bundle. Don’t run the installation script (maybe it works, but I prefer messing up things myself). Create a directory named “emoji” (or any other [...]