Month: December 2007
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YouTube video uploader
YouTube with that many videos uploaded and yet they have a pretty bad interface for upload (comparing to flickr). The newer Multi-Uploader needs to install into your computer and yet still provide a broken web interface (TRANSIENT_ERROR) and would not upload but keep trying (keep cycling through the process), I tried it in different browsers…
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X10 Toys
Some notes when I try to play with a bunch of X10 devices, XX20A (XC22A camera) is B/W, advertised to see 3x more than XCam2 color cameras but subjectively I don’t think it’s that good, also, it does not see as wide as the XC19A (Wide-Eye, which now turns out to be pretty good). Another…
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US zipcode database in SQL format
Don’t remember where I got this file, but might be useful for some: us.zipcodes.sql
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Debugging PowerDNS
Run “service pdns monitor” and it will show the live running stats, very useful for debugging geobackend. Sample Output [root@s203 fold]# service pdns monitor Dec 17 18:59:29 [GeoBackend] This is the geobackend (Aug 30 2007, 15:24:28 – $Revision: 1.1 $) reporting Dec 17 18:59:29 This is a standalone pdns Dec 17 18:59:29 UDP server bound…