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I recently got a pre-release version of the new Mad Squid iPhone game called Spider Attack, and so thought I write a quick review. It’s 1953, the US Army have been conducting secret experiments with mutating radiation. Experiments that have gone badly wrong.  The Army baracks are destroyed.  The only thing between these Giant Mutant Spiders and [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/spider-attack-mad-squid-iphone-game/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/quick-dirty-fix-to-speed-up-qmail-for-bulk-mailings/ http://www.earthinfo.org/quick-dirty-fix-to-speed-up-qmail-for-bulk-mailings/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:24:12 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=553 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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We were getting around 2 mails per second with qmail for a bulk emailing, which was not fast enough and rather than try and patch qmail to fix a bunch of problems,  we chose to put the qmail queue on a temporary file system. It appears that one of qmails bottlenecks is disk access (so perhaps [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/quick-dirty-fix-to-speed-up-qmail-for-bulk-mailings/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/how-much-space-is-all-the-music/ http://www.earthinfo.org/how-much-space-is-all-the-music/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:17:06 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=541 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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I wanted to know how much disk space all the music ever released would take up and couldnt find an approximation, so I put together this to give me a ball park figure. If you add up all the abums on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Albums_by_year It gives 81,708 At around 4mb per track and 10 tracks per album thats 81708*4MBytes*10 = 3268320 MBytes 3268320 [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/how-much-space-is-all-the-music/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/f100-technical-fault-on-meile-w3824wps-washing-machine/ http://www.earthinfo.org/f100-technical-fault-on-meile-w3824wps-washing-machine/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:12:12 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=536 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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I’ve got a Miele W3824WPS washing machine, and I accidentally forgot to close the drain door at the bottom of the washing machine when doing a regular clean. This triggered an error “Technical  F100″  Fault nothing seemed to clear the error and I couldn’t find anything on the Internet about it. After a little but [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/f100-technical-fault-on-meile-w3824wps-washing-machine/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/sqlite-v3-with-php-sample-script/ http://www.earthinfo.org/sqlite-v3-with-php-sample-script/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 14:47:48 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=506 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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SQLite [http://www.sqlite.org] is a very handy tool, essentially it creates a database in a file. SQLite V3 should be installed automatically with PHP5. I find SQLite very handy when I want to make standalone code that uses a database, and because it doesn’t require an external application(such as Mysql) it makes it very portable. [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/sqlite-v3-with-php-sample-script/feed/ 2 http://www.earthinfo.org/an-easy-way-to-use-gnu-screen-over-ssh/ http://www.earthinfo.org/an-easy-way-to-use-gnu-screen-over-ssh/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 20:16:07 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=458 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project since at least 1995. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session. It is useful for dealing with multiple programs from the command line, and for separating programs from the shell that [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/an-easy-way-to-use-gnu-screen-over-ssh/feed/ 12 http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/ http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 06:51:16 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=402 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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This is quick tip to fix a problem that has always bugged me – When showing disk usage in a human readable form (KB, MB, GB) for each subdirectory using “du -sh *”, how can you properly sort it into size order. If you just want the solution here it it… pre.command { width:80%; background-color:#FFF5F5; border:1px dashed #BB8888; margin:10px; padding:10px; } alias duf='du [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/feed/ 18 http://www.earthinfo.org/xpaths-with-php-by-example/ http://www.earthinfo.org/xpaths-with-php-by-example/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 13:59:58 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=259 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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Learn by example how to scrape web pages using PHP and Xpath.]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/xpaths-with-php-by-example/feed/ 3 http://www.earthinfo.org/earth-info-some-links-about-earth/ http://www.earthinfo.org/earth-info-some-links-about-earth/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:22:49 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=229 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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If you found this page you may have been searching for something about The Earth, Im sorry to dissapoint you, but here are a few decent links that may get you started on your research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth – Aways a good starting point for your research http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ – Nasa’s Earth observatory http://www.earth.columbia.edu/ – The Earth Institue at Columbia University http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth.html [...]]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/earth-info-some-links-about-earth/feed/ 0 http://www.earthinfo.org/ebook-reader-review-of-sony-prs-505/ http://www.earthinfo.org/ebook-reader-review-of-sony-prs-505/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:57:32 +0000 Chris Morris http://www.earthinfo.org/?p=210 Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 33 is not allowed to access /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs owned by uid 10011 in /var/www/vhosts/earthinfo.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/thumbnailforexcerpts.php on line 237

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A brief, good point, bad point, review of the Sony PRS-505 Ebook Reader. A great launch point if you are considering buying one.]]> http://www.earthinfo.org/ebook-reader-review-of-sony-prs-505/feed/ 3