Archive for July, 2004
DansGuardian Anti-Virus, part ii
Quick WordPress backup script
A friend is thinking about moving his blogger service to WordPress on my server. However he says he doesn’t trust databases, and that text files rule. To make him feel happier sleeping at night I put together a quick script to backup the wordpress data in the mysql database to a text file.
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Some classic google sites
Often reading slashdot articles you find links to other unrelated but interesting sites. This post had a bundle.
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DansGuardian Anti-Virus
I’m trying to build a debian package with the Aecio F. Neto’s DansGuardian Anti-Virus patch.
Unfortunately the patch was for 2.7.7-8 and debian is at the current 2.7.7-9.
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4501 Bios upgrade
Wallpaper
Went hunting for some more electric sheep backgrounds and discovered this site. There are also some good pictures here.
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Canon EF 70-200mm F/2.8L IS USM
Compare the two following pictures, using the same Canon 300D.
Taken with Canon EF 100-300mm F/4.5-5.6 USM.
Taken with Canon EF 70-200mm F/2.8L IS USM.
The equipment is working hard to make the photographer look good in the second picture. I picked up the first len at Pro Gear second-hand after taking these shots. The L-series lens is definitely on my wishlist, but at six times the price it’ll have to wait.
The advantage of being useless
The Advantage of Being Useless, by George Sweet is one of my favourite books. The headlining tale is one of Chung Tzu’s goodies:
A sage, in rambling about the heights of Shang, saw a large and
extraordinary tree. The teams of a thousand chariots might be sheltered
under it , and its shade would cover them all! Said the sage, “What a
tree this is! It must contain an extraordinary amount of timber!”The sage looked up at the smaller branches and saw they were so twisted
and crooked that they could not be made in rafters and beams. At the
roots its stem was divided into so many rounded potions that neither
coffins nor shell could be made from them. Licking one of the leaves
left the mouth feeling torn and wounded. The small of it would make one
frantic, as if intoxicate, for three whole days together.“This indeed is a tree good for nothing, and it is thus that it has
reach so great an age.”The cinnamon tree can be eaten, and there is cut down.
The varnish tree is useful, and therefore incisions are made in it.All know the advantage of being useful, but no one knows the advantage
of being useless.– Chuang Tzu.