So I was poking around my old emails today trying to locate my “Welcome” email to the Trillian Astra beta program so I could download the latest build when I came across this little jem of a thread. Unfortunately I don’t have all the correspondence… seems I decided to just keep the ending part (which was the best).
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This is just a small nerd post for those of you who may be trying to use the beta 3.0 series of EasyPayPal for WordPress. The script has a very common bug in it that shows up if you don’t configure any categories to be hidden unless purchased in the options. The fix is very simple and I’m rather amazed it hasn’t been committed yet. All that has to be done is to initialize the $cats variable to an empty array since the variable is only created inside a conditional (bad coding!).
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I’ve spent the last week with a very very odd networking problem, and all my attempts at figuring it out and fixing it have yielded nothing but more questions than answers.
I first noticed the problem after having taken my network apart because I got a new Rogers VOIP cable box (Rogers Home Phone service) added, and I opted to hook it up myself so I could do a nice wiring job. I got that done and hooked everything back up just the way it was – powered on my firewall/server box, cable modem and router all hooked up just they were before. Things seemed normal until I tried to go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com and my browser stalled half way trying to load it up – refreshes wouldn’t help much, sometimes it would get a bit further, but it never got to loading the ActiveX part of it. Other sites were working fine though which was really confusing.
I thought maybe Windows XP was pwned or something, so I tried Vista – it worked which led me to think XP was in trouble – so I spent countless hours searching for anything – something – that I thought might be the cause. I tried fixing *everything* from network stacks, registry, hardware, drivers, WSH reinstall – you name it. Nothing worked. Then I noticed file transfers were very slow for uploads through XP and Vista, so I got to tinkering with stuff to figure that out.
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It’s been a very, very long time since I last touched php_template and just out of the blue today I decided I’d finally get off my ass and create a Visual C++ project out of it so I could compile it for Windows users.
Well, after several hours of tinkering and encountering PHP source code “bugs”, I finally got it to compile. I had to do a few fixes too apparently – I was missing some TSRM junk to the parse_tag() function (and I believe that’s because it passes a zval around, so it needs the thread-safe stuff with it), and I had some calls to strlen() which needed to be explicitly cast to avoid warnings. This got rid of some of the compile-time warnings (there are still warnings about strcat() and cousins being used, but I’m smart and know how to use them properly) generated by VC++ 2005 and popped out a tasty php_template.dll for PHP 5.2.1.
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I’ve been using RoboForm2Go for a while now – started using it back when it was still called Pass2Go. I like it, it’s a decent program and works fairly well. I like how it’s data is organized and it’s a few steps ahead stuff like KeePass (though KeePass does seem to be catching up).
I did notice a problem with RoboForm’s Firefox XPI toolbar plugin however, in that when you had a “minimalistic” window open (such as view source, or a JavaScript popup that had no toolbars specified), it would still attach the RoboForm toolbar to it at the bottom, usually hiding any horizontal scroll bar the window had. Now it’s not such a big deal to just click the little close box on the toolbar so I could use the scrollbar, but it is still very annoying since I tend to use the “view source” feature quite a bit. I also know that this is very much a bug in their program or adapter because I have other toolbars in Firefox which do not exhibit this same behaviour.
So I figured I’d be nice and bug-report the problem for them to ensure they were aware of it. I was somewhat surprised however with how their support staff (William, or so he decided to call himself since his Indian name is probably not “customer friendly” or something) has decided to handle it.
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