Occasionally I’ll attempt to run autoconf on a project and find that it tells me I do not have a GNU compatible malloc / realloc. Later, make fails claiming something about malloc or realloc not being defined. I always find this really confusing and forget the solution, so I’m posting it here for myself (and [...]
Quick tip: If you’re trying to use Zend_Captcha_Figlet and not getting any output (or errors), you probably need to enable the bcmath extension in your php.ini. __ __ ___ __ __ \ \\/ // / _ \\ \ \\/ // \ ` // / //\ \\ \ ` // | || | ___ || | [...]
Today, online hobby electronics retailer SparkFun gave away over $100,000 in merchandise, limited to a maximum of $100 per person, all in just under 2 hours. An awfully generous move by any objective measure, but there seems to be much ill-will towards the company both on Twitter and in the comments section of their “Free [...]
Firefox is a nice browser, but it’s very Gnome-centric. In a KDE environment, it’s totally clueless about what application to use to open any downloaded file. Here’s a little fix I came up with (although probably many others have thought of this) that associates all files with a kfmclient script which is smart enough to [...]
The people in the list below sent unsolicited press releases to Chris Andersen, Wired’s Editor in Chief. That’s not nice. I sympathize with Chris because I have a similar problem. What’s funny is a number of them had the nerve to comment that they believed their actions were justified because 1) they paid for the [...]
