Thoughts

Ok folks, I’ve moved all the wordpress and movable type blogs over to a new server. Please let me know if you have trouble!

I just finished work on Liam’s crib. I’ll have a gallery of the images up at some point, but for now I thought I’d share Liam’s first impressions:

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I thought this was interesting enough to post. Flexible Battery Technology

Downtown Lincoln had a power outage early last week. As a consequence of that outage, my server’s /var partition on its primary drive took a dump. I spent much of the week rebuilding the server’s applications and copying over config info from the parts of the drive that were recoverable, but the databases had to be recovered from backups that were sadly 3 months old.

I’m in the process of pricing out and building a new server, but for now we’re running off the same machine with a new hard drive.

Cheers, and sorry for the 3 months of missing mail and blog entries!

It’s a boy! Some time around 3/28/07, I’ll be holding my son. Pictures

I finally broke down after a year of haranging and purchased a new TV set. Given that the set I currently use is a 27″ analog, I felt the move somewhat warranted. Angela and I went out looking at TVs after I found a great deal on Amazon, and since the majority was financed as a belated wedding gift, it didn’t hurt our pocket much.

Some time in the near future, the Samsung HL-S5087W will grace our living room with its presence. 25% off and free shipping was just too sweet a deal. I’m looking forward to some good HD programming, (discover HD is awesome) as well as many movies and games. Finally we’ll be able to play Guitar Hero I and II in their full glory!

Now I just have to convince my wonderful wife to let me buy an Xbox 360…

In case anyone else out there has the same problem I did with Horde 3.1.2 and IMP 4.1.2…

Problem: Forwarded messages containing message/rfc822 parts do not have those parts included in the attachment list available.

Workaround: Forward messages from the message list, not from within the message view itself

Fix: In lib/Horde/MIME/Part.php, replace the following line (646 in my version)

($search_id != $id) &&

with

($search_id !== $id) &&

Then, in imp/lib/MIME/Contents.php, change (line 506 for me)

if ($forward) {
if ($key == 0) {
if ($val != 'multipart/mixed') {
$downloads[] = $key;
break;
}
} elseif (strpos($key, '.') === false) {
$downloads[] = $key;
}
} else {
if (strpos($val, 'message/') === 0) {
if (strpos($val, 'message/rfc822') === 0) {
$downloads[] = $key;
}
} elseif (((intval($key) != 1) && (strpos($val, '1.') === false)) &&
((strpos($val, 'multipart/') === false)) &&
(strpos($val, 'application/x-pkcs7-signature') === false) &&
(strpos($val, 'application/pkcs7-signature') === false)) {
$downloads[] = $key;
}
}

to

if ($forward) {
if ($key == 0) {
if ($val != 'multipart/mixed') {
$downloads[] = $key;
break;
}
} elseif (strpos($key, '.') === false) {
$downloads[] = $key;
} else {
if (strpos($val, 'message/') === 0) {
if (strpos($val, 'message/rfc822') === 0) {
$downloads[] = $key;
}
} elseif (((intval($key) != 1) && (strpos($val, '1.') === false)) &&
((strpos($val, 'multipart/') === false)) &&
(strpos($val, 'application/x-pkcs7-signature') === false) &&
(strpos($val, 'application/pkcs7-signature') === false)) {
$downloads[] = $key;
}
}
}


The above code changes worked for me. Maybe they’ll help someone else out there, too!

My first cat, and the only pet I ever chose for myself, will be departing this world at 5:30 today. Pi (short for pi meson, piwackit, et al) was many things to many people, though usually a nemesis to some degree. To those she did not know, she was a terror, but to those she held in esteem, she was a lovely pet. At nearly 11 years of age, she is succumbing to an illness that her vet cannot identify or treat. Rather than let her suffer through what remains of her natural life, we will help her pass with what remains of her dignity and spirit.

When Tessa and I first picked her from her litter-mates, it was because she was the smallest, meekest cat in the bunch, picked on by all her siblings. I took her to Kansas with me and built a home for her in the old playhouse in grandma’s yard. I spent countless hours in that little house, reading aloud to her, playing with her, loving her. After we moved back to Lincoln, Pi gradually changed into the “hell beast” you all came to know and love. Even with her eventual angry disposition, I will always remember her as the cat she was in that little house in Kansas.

You will be missed, Pi.

For anyone with a WP blog hosted on my machine, you can now use the Spam Karma 2 plugin. Head into your Plugins menu and activate the plugin, then head over to the management section to tweak things. Have fun!

I spent the last hour playing Third World Farmer, and it’s certainly a difficult game. If life is actually like that for most developing nation farmers, that must be a miserable life!