88plug re-launches the Antiques Diva

Posted on Dec 14, 2010 in Featured, Sample Work | 0 comments

88plug is proud to announce the release of the Antiques Diva.

“The Antiques Diva® is the nom de plume for Toma Clark Haines, an American expat living in Europe whose life story has been liberally sprinkled with Cinderella dust. As a child growing up in Oklahoma, Toma dreamed of global adventures. While other kids drew houses with picket fences, Toma drew gondolas with men in striped shirts. After studying abroad in London in university, Toma returned home on the range to marry her college sweetheart. After saying “I do,” she immediately began whispering in his ear words of far-away places and before long her dream became his. When a serendipitous opportunity arose, offering them a chance to live and work in Europe, they moved to Paris for 5 years and then Amsterdam for 4. Along with her husband and well-traveled pet Catpuccino, Toma currently resides in Berlin nearby Brandenberg Gate and the Reichstag. ”

See the combined Store and Blog here:

www.antiquesdiva.com

 

 

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Strip Tables HTML with Regular Expression

Posted on Nov 17, 2010 in Sample Work | 0 comments

A simple regular expression will help you.  I found this particulary useful when migrating client sites.

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</?(table|tr|tbody|td|th)(\s?[^>]*)>
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HTML 5 Video Converter

Posted on Oct 11, 2010 in Sample Work | 0 comments

The best free and open source available for all you HTML 5 video needs(which include multiple format conversions) can easily be done with Miro Video Converter. There is little additional information available from the site, but this tool does exactly what the box says:

Convert to:
Theora
WebM
MP4 Video
MP3 (Audio Only)

Get it Here

Although the application is 32 bit, you can run multiple instances to max out your CPU. Also included are profiles for Android and Apple devices as well.

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MySQL error /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option ‘–skip-bdb’

Posted on Jun 14, 2010 in Linux, Sample Work | 1 comment

MySQL version 5.1.47 failing to start after upgrade?  Here is the brief:

Problem: tail -f /var/log/mysqld.log

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/usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb'

After poking around for a quick solution, nobody seemed to release that the bdb dependncy is no longer used in /etc/my.cnf configuration file.

Old my.cnf:

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[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
query-cache-type = 1
query-cache-size = 6M

datadir=/var/lib/mysql
#socket=/usr/libexec/mysqld
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2

New:

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[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
query-cache-type = 1
query-cache-size = 6M

datadir=/var/lib/mysql
#socket=/usr/libexec/mysqld
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

#skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
#skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
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Settings Wireless Region Linux – Channel 13 Backtrack 4

Posted on Mar 30, 2010 in Sample Work | 0 comments

One of the most recent problems I stumbled upon while running Backtrack, or any other linux distro for that matter is setting the region on a wireless card.  The typical procedure is :

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iwconfig wlan0 channel 13

And commonly you will get

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error for wireless regquest ''set frequency''
(8b04)
set failed on device wlan0 ; invalid arugment

There is an easy fix for this that will allow you to change the region mode your wireless adapter is in.

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More on IW here.

References:

Channel

Center Frequency

Frequency Spread

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2412 MHz

2399.5 MHz – 2424.5 MHz

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2417 MHz

2404.5 MHz – 2429.5 MHz

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2422 MHz

2409.5 MHz – 2434.5 MHz

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2427 MHz

2414.5 MHz – 2439.5 MHz

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2432 MHz

2419.5 MHz – 2444.5 MHz

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2437 MHz

2424.5 MHz – 2449.5 MHz

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2442 MHz

2429.5 MHz – 2454.5 MHz

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2447 MHz

2434.5 MHz – 2459.5 MHz

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2452 MHz

2439.5 MHz – 2464.5 MHz

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2457 MHz

2444.5 MHz – 2469.5 MHz

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2462 MHz

2449.5 MHz – 2474.5 MHz

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2467 MHz

2454.5 MHz – 2479.5 MHz

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2472 MHz

2459.5 MHz – 2484.5 MHz
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Acer Aspire 3690 Broadcom Wireless 43xx Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Posted on Feb 22, 2010 in France, Interest, Linux, Sample Work | 0 comments

Issue : After installing Ubuntu 9.10 wireless and wired networking are either working sporadicly or not at all.  The most vanilla solution you will find.

Target : Acer Aspire 3690-2159

OS : ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386

Hardware : Broadcom 4318 Wireless Adapter

Ensure your wireless switch is turned on in the front before reading step 1.

1.  Install Ubuntu 9.10

2.  Plug in active internet connection the Wired ethernet

3.  Run update-manager

4.  Restart after Kernel update

5.  Now with internet still plugged in, goto System>Administration>Hardware Drivers

6.  Select the Broadcom B43 wireless drive and click activate.

7.  Type in your administrator password

8.  Restart

et Voila.

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