By epb on January 30, 2012
So I go off to search for a part (specifically a replacement battery for a laptop) but I don’t have the thing with me since it’s not mine, I’ve just been tasked with finding a replacement. (So, no stickers for me!) As a last ditch effort before contacting the owner, I go googling and grab [...]
Posted in Problems |
By epb on October 14, 2011
For those who cannot see images: Significant times of the day 4:04 – Time is not found. 5:00 – Time is Broken. 4:03 – The forbidden time. 3:03 – The time for seeing others. 4:09 – Time of Confrontation 4:10 – Time of Disappearance 3:02 – Time of Finding 2:02 – Time of Willful Procrastination [...]
Posted in Comic, Random | Tagged comic |
By epb on October 14, 2011
It was mentioned that a sequel to Zombinanza has long been missing, and as a consequence Zombinanza 2 shall be attempted to be started to be made. Harass me if it doesn’t.
Posted in Games, Programming |
By epb on October 13, 2011
I needed a small php function that could take an address (which lacked a zip code) and fetch a best guess postal code for it. I had a database full of addresses with city and state, but no zip code. Thankfully, if you have enough information in your address to locate it with the Google [...]
Posted in php |
By epb on April 17, 2011
Looking for a quick and easy to use encryption class for PHP? I stumbled upon Cryptastic in my searches for example code to use with mcrypt for a personal project. I must say it’s quite handy. It implements a message integrity check and handles the initialization vector stuff for you making encrypting data as easy [...]
Posted in php | Tagged encryption, mcrypt |
By epb on February 6, 2011
There may be times you need to find the bounding box of an SVG path. One way to find it would be to parse the path and then apply any group transformation on it to find the range of X and Y coordinates the object occupies. However that’s a bit of code, and I’m quite [...]
Posted in php | Tagged hopefully_that_made_sense, ImageMagick, php, problem, svg |
By epb on November 15, 2010
I got my CherryPad America toward the end of October. It’s a low-end tablet, comparable to the ones you can now find at WalMart and KMart. I bought mine primarily to function as an e-reader, and quickly found that it had impressive video codec support and could do more than I was expecting out of [...]
Posted in linux | Tagged android, CherryPad
By epb on October 27, 2010
The CherryPad America is a tablet running Android I plan to write up a review for later, however a quick note for anyone who might be searching: Yes, if you do a factory restore, the default language will be Chinese. You can change it to English by pressing the change-language button in the lower-right hand [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged linux, tablets
By epb on September 25, 2010
Was directed to a nifty tutorial regarding Python’s optparse, and how to use it to quickly create handy command-line utilities. Saves you the trouble of ever having to parse the command line. Check it out on IBM’s website: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-pythocli/ Summary taken from the article: Summary: If you work in IT, as a UNIX® Sysadmin, a [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged outside_tutorials, python
By epb on September 25, 2010
Ran across a problem where I had a bunch of emails in Outlook’s msg format that could not be read (due to lack of Outlook) on someone’s computer. Did some digging and found msgconvert.pl. Did the job handily with only a few quirks. Snag it at http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/
Posted in Problems | Tagged perl, problem, solved