Ever wonder who’s listening to your iTunes music when sharing it on your network? There are one or two widgets and tools made for Mac OSX that allow you to see this information, but I listen to iTunes on Windows XP. My co-worker and I were able to come up with a way to not… Read more »
Posts By: Jason Gill
Getting Netgear WG511 802.11b/g wireless card to work in Linux
Three months ago I posted about getting my Netgear WG511 802.11 b/g wireless card to work in Linux. Well, this weekend I figured out a much, much simpler way, and wanted to update my documentation. In my previous post I discussed that I had tried the Prism54 method without luck and resorted to the ndiswrapper…. Read more »
MySQL 4.1.x and formatting the new TIMESTAMP with PHP
In MySQL 4.1 and up, the properties of the TIMESTAMP column type change from YYYYMMDDHHMMSS to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. If you have built anything in PHP that relies on the old format, it will break if you upgrade from older versions of MySQL (such as this blog!). If you want the same view of a timestamp… Read more »
Apache (HTTPD) and Tomcat connector with mod_jk
I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out how to get the mod_jk connector working so that I can use tomcat and httpd together. The problem, like most linux operations, is that it’s very poorly documented. Not only that, but the decent documentation you find is either outdated or is very specific to… Read more »
AOL vs. Flash Pre-Loader
I’ve been using an image pre-loader that I wrote myself for several years now, whenever I need to load an external jpeg into my movie. I’ve also been in the habbit of re-naming my .jpg images to .jjj in order to trick AOL’s image compression “feature.” What I never expected is that AOL would also… Read more »