Comments for Confessions of a Guru

Comment on DivX Pro 6 Codec by Websesman

Websesman — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:52:20 +0000

This is too simple to be real but its all true! Thanks guys

Comment on PHP’s DateTime built-in class vs. Zend_Date by Pogo Cheats

Pogo Cheats — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:07:16 +0000

I like your blog theme. style? Is it free to download? Regards

Comment on Consistency by Paul

Paul — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:01:31 +0000

Wise words Gurubob

Comment on Installing Debian Testing from USB Key by GuruBob

GuruBob — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:22:57 +0000

So after installing it and poking around I found a few virtually immediate showstoppers:

Firstly, the Network Manager applet told me that the wireless interface was not managed with no way of setting it to be managed. I found a reference to edit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and set managed=true but all this did was change network manager to say that the wireless network was not available (or similar, don’t have it in front of me).

Through all of this I didn’t get to see a list of wireless networks, but I did manage to get it connected by typing the name of the network and the password and it somehow connected, but didn’t tell me.

Secondly – and I did expect this – Gnome3 doesn’t run on my network card so I’m forced into Gnome Classic. I’m not sure what version this is but there was a lot of things that wouldn’t work that I thought should have.

My plan from here is to install Ubuntu 10.10 today (even though it will soon be three releases old) as I know it works well and the amount of memory consumed is acceptabe for me.

I might persist with Debian Testing in a dual boot environment but really it’s probably not worth my effort given that the stock install doesn’t support my hardware.

Comment on PHP’s DateTime built-in class vs. Zend_Date by Brett Taylor

Brett Taylor — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:02:03 +0000

Probably a bug in the whole ’30 days has September’ function

Comment on PHP’s DateTime built-in class vs. Zend_Date by Brett Taylor

Brett Taylor — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:01:03 +0000

Technically that’s correct, if you count the 31st October as 1st November.
1st November – 1 month = 1st October.

Comment on PHP’s DateTime built-in class vs. Zend_Date by GuruBob

GuruBob — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:48:24 +0000

Cheers G … thanks for the clarification.

In the end I was just far more explicit with my code. I just needed to know what the previous month was so I took the current month, found the first day of it and then subtracted a month from that date.

You can do it manually but it’s messy having to check < 1 and make it 12.

Comment on PHP’s DateTime built-in class vs. Zend_Date by Gareth Redman

Gareth Redman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:35:21 +0000

Calendar arithmetic is weird. None of JavaScript, .NET, or Python seem to support arithmetic with months at all.

Haskell gives you both `addGregorianMonthsClip` and `addGregorianMonthsRollOver`. The roll-over version matches the built-in PHP result, and the clip version matches Zend. Good times.

Comment on HTTP Monitor Script for Bash by GuruBob

GuruBob — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:09:19 +0000

Cheers Joel – I hadn’t spotted that

Comment on HTTP Monitor Script for Bash by Joel Thompson

Joel Thompson — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:54:31 +0000

Hi, thanks for the script, we tried to use this script for our new external webserver but found it wasnt deleting the hidden files in the folder. This resulted in it not warning you when the site went up/down untill these hidden files were deleted.

The fix was to move the .* out of the double qoutes when checking for the hidden files to remove, like so.

rm “$STATUS_FILE_PREFIX”.* > /dev/null 2>&1

After that it has been working brilliantly, thanks.