Ah well.

AjaxLife updates will resume soonish, as soon as I get the backlog of schoolwork out of the way – although development will remain sluggish until mid-June or so, when I’m finished with all my exams and such. But IE6-in-corporate-environment users, I have not forgotten you! Stay tuned for fixes!

Oh, and I have a fancy new computer. Woohoo. Here’s a nice pair of screenshots:

Or, at least, here would be a nice pair of screenshots if WordPress 2.5′s upload facility wasn’t broken with calls to ctype_digit (which doesn’t exist) – what’s wrong with is_numeric (in fact, the patch to rectify the error just replaces all instances of ctype_digit with is_numeric – but I’m far too lazy to do that myself)?

Anyway. Blah blah blah. Exams suck, coursework moreso. Also, this is the first post with tags attached in a while.

[00:08 GMT] Everything except services.katharineberry.co.uk is back. Going to work out what to do about that…

Numerous websites of mine have been disabled while I work out what’s murdering my server. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. This blog and AjaxLife will remain functional as much as possible.

Anyone who wants to participate in a useless society that does nothing, has no aims and will achieve nothing, please leave a comment. Note that the ANWPAOPGYBBSACS is in favour of barnstars awarded by people other than the awardee because that person actually felt the awardee deserved one.

This is from the same people as the last request.

Stupid OU

That is all. Also, the level of paranoia utilised by the Schome project is absurd.

(“OU” standing for “Open University”)

Warning: Unknown property ‘zoom’. Declaration dropped. – also Warning: Unknown property ‘filter’. Declaration dropped.

This is a warning thrown by FireFox (or anything else based on Gecko/Mozilla) that is unimportant. “Zoom” is a CSS property that is specific to Internet Explorer, and is frequently used to work around annoying bugs in said browser. The same applies to “filter”, although it has some other unimportant uses too. Everything else just ignores it, sometimes emitting annoying warnings like the above. The message is harmless.

osgrid

Alternate SL grid based on OpenSim. Find it over here.

deepgrid

Another OpenSim grid. See their website (down at the time of writing).

uncancel second life account

You can uncancel your SL account from the SL account page after logging in using said account – however, this only works up to two months after your account is cancelled, and after the first month your land will be reclaimed.

Uploading sound or MP3 files (in SL)

SL will let you upload wav files of less than (but not equal to) 10.0 seconds. The files must be 44.1KHz. Try using Audacity to achieve this. Uploading sounds via LSL is impossible without awkward hacks.

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server, or alternatively Bad Gateway

This is an Apache error message. It means that an attempt by mod_proxy to contact another server failed. Basically, the website’s down. In relation to AjaxLife, it means that the main AjaxLife server crashed, but the physical machine is still responsive.

SLeek Development

Go look at Delta’s blog.

SLeek on mono/Ubuntu

As far as I know, is impossible, at least as of now. Same goes for OS X.

This ends a largely off-topic post. I omitted the searches involving my name combined with variations on beds, on the basis I neither know nor care what they’re on about. Also, “logmein logs me out” is a rather amusing issue, but not one I can help with.

The blog is clearly dying off.

Points of interest: The first spike is a few days after I announced AjaxLife, when it was picked up on the SLED list. The second is AjaxLife being picked up on Reddit. The rest is me failing to do anything of interest.

On another note: I just put up a bunch of real pictures on Flickr. They took hours to put up on the 1KB/s (4KB/s at peak) internet connection on this boat, so enjoy them! (Even though they were all shot with the somewhat dubious iPhone camera)

Most likely the donations will pay for the AjaxLife server fees, on the basis they’re highly unlikely to exceed a total of £10 ever. (which is significantly less than the monthly fee for its server)

Side note: see small text under the button.

I’ll be putting it back shortly after Leopard is released, assuming it has a finalised version of Safari 3.

In order to avoid subsequent comments also being jammed in moderation, please do not change your name/email address – if you do, it’ll count this as your first comment (again), and hold it for moderation. Which is more work for me. :p