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It appears that one major German ISP has troubles with his routers and traffic goes through backup connection. But that connection has problems as well: one of its routers badly configured. It does has MTU value set to 1492 and router before it does not accept ICMP messages that advise him to resend messages. Therefore anything longer than 1492 bytes get lost completely. Due to this fact I lost huge amount of time. Finally I remembered that I have this issue half a year ago and quickly tested...

I remember times when ICQ was the only instant messenger in the world. Everything was easy and simple those days: just one number to remember (your UIN). Now there are lots of instant messengers. Some better, some worse. Normally I use Skype but for some purposes I have to run MSN messenger most of the time.

Last two weeks MSN messenger started to disconnect frequently. Last two days it could connect at all. I use recent version (6.0.3), which was released by Microsoft last year and there are...

The image below shows how questions should not be asked. Or, may be, it should how choices do not correspond to asked question.

What buttons should I use if I do not want to cancel transfer?

I moved one of our old projects to new server. It runs PHP 5.2.x. There is a forum there and I found that date() PHP function randomly returns UTC time instead of local time. Searching Internet did not give any results. Next I found that date/time support changed in PHP since 5.1.x and now it is essential to set "date.timezone" directive correctly in php.ini. I did that and hope it will force date() to return proper time...

A quick hint for mnoGoSearch users (also those who use mnoGoSearch TYPO3 extension). If you use mnoGoSearch with non-English languages and UTF-8 database and see question marks instead of some non-English characters, try appending "&setnames=utf8" to DBAddr parameter.

It seems that even having "default-character-set=utf8" is not enough when dealing with some mnoGoSearch versions. Interestingly, only PHP is affected, mnoGoSearch'es own search.cgi works correctly.

When we lived in Moscow, our PC was stollen from our appartment. There was nothing sensitive there and I do not have anything sensitive on my current computers. But the fact that someone may look into my files, is not very pleasant. Therefore I always use encryption for my files.

On Windows I used TrueCrypt, which is excellent free software. It allows to create encrypted partitions and files, which can be mounted as file system drive (on Windows) or directory (on Linux/Unix/MacOSX).

TrueCrypt...

I am trying to compile mnoGoSearch search engine on Mac OS X. I want to play with it a little more to see how I can better use it in my mnoGoSearch TYPO3 extension.

It complies ok but executing any compiled binary results in weird error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.15.dylib  Referenced from: /opt/mnogosearch-3.3.6/bin/mconv  Reason: image not foundTrace/BPT trap

As you see MySQL dynamic library location is totally wrong. May be it can be...

Here: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/

There is an excellent add-on software for PostFix, called GLD. Using it, it is possible to filter out most spam messages.

Today I tried to put GLD on my brand new server, which I am preparing, but... It did not work. It worked fine on the other (older) server but not on new. After an hour of investigation I found that there are two problems:

MySQL 5 is very strict about index length. It did not want to sliently crop key length while creating tablesGLD could not connect to MySQL because socket...

Quite often I encounter an interesting phenomena. Someone has a problem ("I am flying to CDG, Paris and I need to get to the center of the city"). He thinks about solution ("How do I get to the center of the city?"). Finally he finds a solution or rather thinks he found it ("There should be taxies there! I will take a taxi!"). He thinks about it more and finds that there are some unclear details ("I do not speak French, how do I tell the driver to go to the center?"). Now he need to solve that...