archive for October 2007

Hyperlinking to Piracy Sites is against UK law?

Slashdot and The Guardian recently reported about the arrest of the owner of tv-links.co.uk and the sites subsequent closing down. TV Links was a site which linked to videos on other sites (like Youtube and Veoh) where users could see TV series. The arrest was made by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police.

Posted 20th October 2007 in E-petitions, and Life, with 1 comment

Fixing File Uploads after upgrading to PHP5

As some of you may know, I upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5 recently. And it went smoothly - or so I thought. Now, it seems I overlooked the fact that the reference $HTTP_POST_FILES has been phased out. This has been replaced with $_FILES. This is great, since Zen Cart, custom scripts, old phpBB installations and other old php scripts where users can upload a fail now fail spectacularly as they access an empty array.

Posted 18th October 2007 in Computer, with 0 comments

Cycling from Rasen to Oxford

First, let me apologise for neglecting my trusty readers. But I'm back, back my magical journey.

Posted 11th October 2007 in Life, with 0 comments

Wildcard Parsing in Linux Shells

I have just discovered a quirk in linux shells.

Posted 4th October 2007 in Computer, with 1 comment