The blogring.hu is one of the oldest blogring community in the Hungarian scene. Until now, there wasn't a module for pinging it. Today I've take a bottle of pear pálinka and start to code this little project. Interesting, I'm always more productive if I drink a bit. :) (Do you remember to the Drunken Fist by Jackie Chan?) So, from now, you can ping the blogring.hu too to say "Hey, I'm updated!"

There will be a major upgrade on the aries.mindworks.hu. My pal Imre Ardeleian gives me some authentic, original design and I hope I can dedicate some days to to bring this shitty site to the state-of-the-art level. I feel I can do it if Lord Drupal is on my side. :) Please jitter for me. :)
Now the commenting and some functions are disabled because the bug of the Drupal's Captcha module. There is a note elsewhere about Drupal 5 not using sessions for anonymous users which means captcha has to do something else for anonymous users. Captcha could emulate sessions by placing the generated value in a database keyed by an id that can be carried in the form containing the captcha. Captcha can then be used without sessions for anonymous users who want to add a comment, register, or login, but this function is not implemented. So please be a little patient. Thank you

I'm working on workstations, they have 256MB RAM. They aren't got king's size, but it should be far enough for an ssh-session, for a browser and for an email reader. I don't need multimedia things for work. But nowadays, the Firefox browser eats 190 megs for a single presentation (S5) page. I cannot edit a picture larger than 1.1 megs JPG with Gimp, because out of memory... I cannot see an email which bigger than 4 megs, because Evolution and Spamassassin (the Evo depends on spamd in Fedora Core 4) eats 300 megs... Guys, are you serious?

I've given up my contribution of Rosetta@home, because it needs a very huge amount of RAM. One session eats approx. 220MB of RAM, but the Mindworks' pcs got "only" 256MB. This project is not for our machines, so I left. Bye

I've got many client error from the beta code rosetta@home. I don't know why, but damn, they hasn't granted my claimed credit for these yet! It's not my fault, it's the client programmer fault. If the 1:1 error-success ratio will be kept in the near future, I'll detach the rosetta@home from the projects list

You know, my mania is to do the machines some useful in their spare time. Until 2004 our main project was SETI@Home. This project has enough participants so I switched to an other interesting problem: Folding@Home. Folding@Home is an experimetial project to see how proteins can be fold. It's a giant problem of the biology, nearly all of the diseases are a results of the misfolding.

I've upgraded MySQL from version 4.1.9 to version 4.1.12. After this the mysql's log were full of lines such this:

050722 18:30:47 [Warning] './dbname/counter' had no or invalid character set, and default character set is multi-byte, so character column sizes may have changed
050722 18:30:47 [Warning] './dbname/banners' had no or invalid character set, and default character set is multi-byte, so character column sizes may have changed

So, I have to use ALTER DATABASE:

ALTER DATABASE `dbname` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

The upgrade script should be more intelligent.

Alas, FC4 is quite unstable now. Yesterday I've enabled DBUS messaging in Evolution, then it's always crasing. I sent the bugreport to the Gnome guys, I hope they'll fix it as soon as possible. Now, I don't know how can I disable because Evo is always crashing at the startup... :(

I didn't know that the AKÓ 2005 (organized in every two years) has started today. It's the music/student festival for the University of Veszprém. I've watched the boring TV while I was eating my dinner, and a fuckin' good band played their songs. I was listing the music in my window, dawn what a good life I have. :) Their name was Colorstar, a psychadelic rock/jazz band. They're getting good as Ozric Tentacles. Go and get their CDs!

Today I was setting up a distributed computing environment. Because my HP Xe3 notebook has only 256MB of RAM and an 5400 RPM harddisk, I had to find a solution how can I "extend" my workstation type resources.