OK, I have gotten the ALS update ready. Also, I fixed a bug in the email activation script. Users might have found activation to be impossible as I accidently defined a wrong variable. Anyway, it’s fixed now. So you can get the update here:
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Anyway, I went to collect my City Duathlon Race pack yesterday. Not much goodies, except for lots of advertisements from Singtel, a not-very-nicely-printed-but-at-least-comfortable dri-fit Shirt, race instruction booklet, some catalogues from the sponsors and of course my race number and Championchip. (My race number is 3051)
I have updated the Products And Services page, so as it make it easier for you guys to download the files you want. It was getting very messy, so I sorted out all the download according to scripts.
Anyway, check out this cool video of Lux, which is a multi-touch Natural User Interface (NUI) for the Mac not unlike the iPhone touch screen. Best of all, it’s going to be released in June as an open source project!
From the dark video, I can’t really figure out how it works, but I guessing it works largely by iSight, but I may also be wholly wrong. Can’t wait for the final release.
A casual off-the-rack blazer and jeans really fit me. (I think)
I have received countless bug reports on a MySQL error when attempting to install the 1st Nightly Build. The script will give a “table missing” error when attempting to run the script. Now, after looking into the code, I finally realized why.
Basically, during some phrase in my development, I moved some MySQL commands (related to anti-brute-forcing) to the file config.php. Therefore, when you run the script for the first time, it will actually attempt to execute the commands on the table first, hence resulting in the error as the tables have not even been installed. I missed out on this as I already had the tables installed before I made the changes to the code, hence I was unable to generate this error, so it left me puzzled for a while as to why so many users were reporting this problem.
Anyway, the fix was pretty simple, just move the code to check for the existence of the database tables to be executed before the MySQL commands. So here’s the updated files. (You would need to download the Nightly Build first, then replace the files with those in the file below.) I am sorry that it took me so long to figure out the reason behind this problem.
Now, instead of having to read about my (sometimes boring, but mostly interesting) personal life every time you visit my site, you now can read about the brief history of this website together with my very own “Foreword”! But of course, if you want to read my blog, just click the “Blog” link above on the navigation menu.
Also, I have taken down the Bugs Database as 1. hardly anyone uses it and 2. it may pose a security risk. I will reupload it when I come up with a better version.
Anyway, short update, I have got a chemistry class test tomorrow.
Recently, there has been a few bug reports submitted to me, regarding some MySQL connection problems on v0.03B Preview 2 Builds. If you see something like this:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘iquest’@'72.52.228.40′ (using password: YES) in /home/xxx/public_html/als/phpcipher.bin(233) : eval()’d code on line 30
Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/nexgenwe/public_html/als/phpcipher.bin(233) : eval()’d code on line 30
Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Access denied for user ‘nobody’@'localhost’ (using password: NO) in /home/xxx/public_html/als/phpcipher.bin(233) : eval()’d code on line 30
Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/xxx/public_html/als/phpcipher.bin(233) : eval()’d code on line 30
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/xxx/public_html/als/phpcipher.bin(233) : eval()’d code on line 30
Warning: mysql_close(): no MySQL-Link resource supplied in /home/xxx/public_html/als/phpcipher.bin(233) : eval()’d code on line 30
there is no need to panic. It seems that this problem is pretty common. It is probably a connection problem to the update server. As I am writing this, it seems that the error is resolved. However, if the problem persists, one workaround is to disable update checking. (under config.php, set $updatechecking from TRUE to FALSE.) I will update you guys when there is a fix.
