Published on
November 23, 2008 in
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Okay, I admit… it’s not quite “back” but more like “resurrected”.
I re-setup the entire server and suddenly it works again. Currently there’s not much for guest users to checkout, though. The Wuala API Wrapper sourcecode can be obtained from there, since I won’t post the entire code for every little stable — I guess that’s interesting for some people. Address for checkout: https://svn.tsukasa.eu:8443/svn/<repository>
The server’s now running with VisualSVN, routed through tsukasa.eu’s main Apache. It works reasonably well and the admin console is quite slick.
As you can see, WebSVN has been updated to the newest version, OHAB and other old projects have been removed from SVN.
Also new: Automated build/unit tests through CruiseControl .NET. Not that I’d ever commit non-working code 
To add a wildcard domain (i.e. *.subdomain.mydomain.domain) all you really need to do is set up a new vhost in the Apache config and use the matching ServerName and ServerAlias:
ServerName subdomain.mydomain.domain
ServerAlias *.subdomain.mydomain.domain
That’s it, you can easily utilize and parse all subdomains below subdomain.mydomain.domain now.
Okay, now this is really really bad, starting with MySQL 5 there is a strict mode. What does that mean? The strict mode will not silently swallow all your data and just cut off what’s left but throw an exception back at you when you try to insert more data than the field type allows.
Sweetcron is really vulnerable for this kind of problem. It always stopped fetching the feeds to complain about a single post. Now, while fixing the problem on the software side would be preferrable I opted for a simple configuration change on the server side this time.
All you really need to do is altering the my.ini line that activates the strict mode:
sql-mode=”STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION”
will either become
#sql-mode=”STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION”
or
sql-mode=”MYSQL40″
Simply restart the MySQL service afterwards and sweetcron should eat the posts without complaining (I don’t even want to think about the loss of data here, but who cares?).
Gee, there I am, not updating my installation for ages and now I’m wandering the path of nightly-builds again.
WordPress 2.7 is amazing. The new interface not only looks great but also offers a lot: You can collapse your toolbar to save space, the auto-updater has been improved and now supports updating WordPress’ core as well.
Quite slick, can’t wait for the final 
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Far Cry 2 comes with a nasty copy protection. Actually, it’s more like a strict DRM variant that needs to be activated online and can only be used X times when not properly deactivating it.
You can manually revoke an activation without uninstalling the game by simply calling:
FarCry2.exe /revoke
Easy, huh? I’d prefer Ubisoft to not use any of these bugger DRM crap at all, but then again we all know the story of software piracy (note: pirates probably have a better version without this crap, so this whole thing is totally beyond the point anyway!).
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