On the Topic of Collectables

July 21st, 2010 by almiteycow

I recently read a comment about collectors that I found interesting enough to share here.

On reddit.com, hatetosayit commented:

Awesome, you’ve just demonstrated one of my theories as to why people aren’t buying movies anymore. The industry likes to blame piracy, but I think they’ve missed something.

Nobody buys a movie simply because he wants to watch it. You don’t even buy a movie because you will want to watch it again in a couple years. People who buy lots of movies aren’t currently watching all of those movies. So why do people buy movies?

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WordPress SFTP Part 2

June 10th, 2010 by almiteycow

Note: This is an update of my previous post about enabling SFTP for WordPress available here.

I updated to Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx, on my server and SFTP in PHP applications stopped working. Turns out that the pecl build isn’t compatible with the version of PHP shipped with 10.04, as far as I can tell. I tried reinstalling it, but it wouldn’t build. Thankfully I found out that there’s a package of it available in the repos.

Here’s the new method to enable SSH in PHP, which makes SFTP in WordPress work again.

user@computer:~$ sudo apt-get install libssh2-php

Restart Apache and you’re on your way. Way simpler than before is just a nice bonus.

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Gtalk Highlight Notification for XChat

February 22nd, 2010 by almiteycow

I’m a moderator (admin? op?) on a very small IRC room. I always have at least one client running somewhere, usually on my Linux computer. Naturally I use XChat. Invariably someone will attempt to contact me via IRC when I’m not around, so I whipped together a quick little XChat plugin script that’ll send myself a Google Talk message when someone writes a highlighted phrase, such as my nickname. If I’m not busy, I can then pop on and see what they wanted. Hopefully it won’t be too annoying, I can always just turn it off (I know at least one of you reads this. I will most definitely ban you if you bother me at the wrong time ;) ).

Anyway, click the “read the rest of this entry” link for the script if you want to look at it.

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