Camels in the Mist

So, here I am again on a sunday afternoon, blogging it up in my cave. (Take this opportunity to turn my room light on — now it’s less like a cave)

This week has (like any other week) been busy. Monday night was up late working on vacuous proofs, which i didn’t realize until Tuesday’s discussion with my supervisor. Yay me. However, I now have new direction: Getting some code up and running, hunting down bugs (const char *) returning a single character, amongst others. I don’t think i’m ever going to get around the fact that even as optimized as it is, my program produces far too many results and, even without memory leaks, my code will run out of free memory during it’s tenth generating iteration. This means i need to move to heavy file i/o, or databases. Databases ftw, although i’ve never before done database coding in a c/c++ context, this will breach new horizons i’ve been meaning to get to for a long time.

I’m organizing a group thinkgeek order to save on shipping. I’ve been meaning to make such an other for something like a year, there’s a sexy/geeky shakespeare shirt that i’ve wanted ever since i laid eyes on it. /(bb|[^b]{2})/ …. that is the question…. If you want in, and didn’t get my email, let me know via email before monday(tomorrow) at noon (or before my cmpt 414 midterm anyway…)

Yesh. I have a midterm tomorrow. BOO.

phpBB 2.0.18 got released several hours ago. Keep in mind when you upgrade your boards, that you need to apply both the code changes and run the database update. So many issues revolving around board exploits on “up to date boards” are issues of people who have performed the database update without performing the associated code updates. So many issues revolving around board exploits on “up to date boards” are issues of people who have performed the database update without performing the associated code updates. This is a big release, as it includes a backport of Olympus’s session system (db schema change, heads up for those who don’t have CREATE privileges for their database user). I notified Trel of the release, so we should be seeing the cPanel Open Installer containing the new version and updater soon.

Wordpress seems to have a bug that causes it to bork out with an HTTP 500 if you try to post anything with the word ‘CREATE’ in it. Of course, that never stopped me from doing it anyway. Makes me wonder about security exploits. joy.

Also, since some people were asking for the code i use for my “Currently Listening to”, i made a new section and a quick downloader script and slapped up the script as a WP Plugin. You can take a look here.

Time for a bit of musical nostalgia…

Currently Listening to:
[ Elastica ] Elastica - 2:1
"Sandman goes - Two in tow
Wet and dumb - Three's the number
Coming down - Coming round
Again"

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 30th, 2005 at 3:50 pm by Xore and is filed under All, People, phpBB, Music, Work, Technology, Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.