Archive for May, 2009
Out of memory at line: 56
This is an error that I have started to see a lot in the last few weeks. First, it was with Piwik and latterly with WordPress.com Stats. For the record, I have never seen it on up to date systems but always with IE6 and at page unloading time. The CPU usage hits 100% before [...]
64-bit Firefox plugins?
My laptop has both Windows Vista and Ubuntu on there with WUBI being the facilitator of the peaceful coexistence. However, what I either forgot or never realised was that it was the 64-bit variant of Ubuntu 9.04 that has found its way onto the thing. For the most part, it works well but there is [...]
About Perl’s Binding Operator
This piece is as much an aide de memoire for myself as anything else but putting it here seems worthwhile if it answers questions for others. The binding operators, =~ or !~, come in handy when you are framing conditional statements in Perl using Regular Expressions, for example, testing whether x =~ /\d+/ or not. [...]
ScriptingA case of the reverse Midas touch?
Last week, a power cut put my main home PC of of action. It may have been recoverable if that silly accident of a few weeks back hadn’t happened but a rebuild is progress. That hasn’t been going so well but I somehow am managing to remain hopeful that an avenue of exploration will yield [...]
Old tricks can still save money
Recently, there was no sound coming out from my main PC and I began to suspect the sound card, an aging Guillemot Maxi Sound Muse. Naturally, my thoughts turned to acquiring and those in stock at PC World seemed to have unknown or dubious Linux compatibility. However, I powered the machine down for the night [...]
HardwareGetting Fedora working in VirtualBox
After a hiatus induced by disk errors seen on start up, I have gone having a go with Fedora again. In the world of real PC’s, its place has been taken by Debian so virtualisation was brought into play for my most recent explorations. I could have gone with 10, the current stable version, but [...]