William Hector's Blog

Long time, no post. Soo, firstly an update on me, I’m currently about to start University at the University Of Southampton studying Electronic Engineering (MEng – 4 years).

As my pc is currently in a movable state (When I got my new Graphics Card, ATI 6970 2Gb, my primary HDD cage wouldn’t fit in, thus it’s cable tied to the side). I needed a new case, I also decided to redo my water cooling setup (Plus I haven’t yet installed a waterblock on my GPU), whilst I would keep my Reserator 2, It will only be used as a radiator with no electronic in it.

Here are the case pictures, I went for a Coolermaster ACTS 840.

Ooo:

Popup I/O!

Yeah, I kinda dropped the case from about .5m, there was no damage whatsoever to the case but the floor suffered…

I have made an Opera version of my image popup disable script.

Click here to view it

I’ve recently moved this blog onto a new VPS server in the UK, to improve my editing speed of other sites and most peopel looking at my blog are in the uk, It’s not to slow for the US or anywhere else anyway.

The point is when I tried to upgrade wordpress, or any plugins I got this error: “PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure”

Some quick googling shows that normally the error is due to a problem with the http.php file makeing corrupt archives. I tried the new version but to no avail, I was then looking at the sourse to see if it used a function I forgot to enable for some reason and saw this line in /wp-admin/includes/file.php (which contains the extracting function):

&ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');

Now the server only has 256MB at the moment, which is enouge for my use; but this will cause the above error unless it is lowed, I set to 128M with no problems.

For a very long time my broadband randomly cuts out, I think it always has. Only for a few seconds though as my modem reconnects. The problems is I then get a new IP. With a router it doesn’t care. However I’m using, and have been for the last year using Small Business Server 2003 as my router. When the external IP changes it needs to renew the ip. How this was getting annoying as it seems to be increasing lately. So I made a small program (this is an ugly hack)  to ping google every 2 seconds, if it fails 3 times in a row, it releases and renews the IP. I also decided to log every time it has to do this. I then plotted a graph, with some interesting results:

I’m still logging to see how this trend continues.

Finished modding the inove theme; should work OK; any problems on browsers let me know.