What The! This site serves one main purpose. To provide a sandbox for me to play in, as such do not expect to find anything of great interest here. I use this site to muck about with php, css, html and so on. In light of this you will find some google maps and geoip stuff here and a few notes (on mainly Linux related stuff).
Convert a MySQL DB from utf8 to UTF8I had a utf8 collated MySQL 4.1 db that contained both English and Japanese text. I dumped the data and then tried to migrate it into my new MySQL 5.0.26 installation. Of course being a bit lazy I did not take the time to check things out properly and was not surprised to find that all Japanese text had become mojibake. I set off on a mission to fix the problem.
StarDict - an excellent replacement for gjiten and rikaichan"Gjiten is [an excellent] Japanese language dictionary program for Gnome". It has served me well for several years, but yesterday I found a better tool - StarDict.
SHFS - SHell FileSystemI have been trialling shfs as a replacement for NFS. Whilst NFS can be lightning fast I'm not a fan of the security options (or lack thereof).
SHFS - SHell FileSystem is a kernel module that allows you to mount remote resources over a normal ssh connection. The remote server does not require any special changes - just sshd.
Mystery Tour Geek TestReading through mate's blog blog the other day I found a reference to a geek test, so I decided to take it.
An Exciting Train Video
Automatically reattach to a screen session after logging in via ssh Random Google Searches
