that auto update for wp went surprisingly well and im trying out the new wp theme twenty-eleven. not so individualistic but still sweet. editing with an android pad is a bit crappy and even with the app its only an inch better. So i leave it for today with a little happy xmas quote. With an extra x.

$TCA['tt_content']['columns']['image']['config']['internal_type'] = 'file';

that put into extTables.php or so sets that the file is used as is. the file is linked to where the user did upload it and no file reference is created.

while this knowledge is wide spread, i´d like to express my feelings about a very responsive t3 backend after giving more meat to the xcache size. put 80Ms there. xcache comes with a nice admin log which shows the cache hits and misses, here are the explanations.

the t3 backend (the newer the better) is lightning fast even on larger installations (hundreds of editors) due to high cache count of necessary php files. uhm, and before i forget: of course the database server must be cool, too — or you will wait for the queries to be finished and thus all the php engine speed would idle around.

net use z: \\subdomain.domain.tld@SSL:443\webdavfoldername

will ask for a user and a password to gain access and to mount the webdavfoldername (your webdav alias in apache´s virtualhost conf) to drive letter z:

this is a hell of a lack that windows 7 has, but of course webdav seems to be an anathema to microsoft.

useful addendums to the command above are /persistent:yes and /User:user password and i hope it helps you save worthy hours.

since php5/cli/php.ini shows memory_limit=-1 which means no mem limit (which i thought is a good value), i didn´t care too much about this. but at the end it turns out, a little add (-d memory_limit=1024M) to the archive shell script worked things out for me:

// snip---
echo "Archiving period = $period for idsite = $idsite..."
 CMD="$PHP_BIN -d memory_limit=1024M -q $PIWIK_PATH -- module=API&method=VisitsSummary.getVisits&idSite=$idsite&period=$period&date=last52&format=xml&token_auth=$TOKEN_AUTH"
 $CMD
// snap---

this made finally happen to bypass the archiving process for month/year and the server now has lower memory footprint because i tuned stuff down as much as i could before that

so, if you want to override an ini setting for the script you´re calling, the -d flag is the one to help.

i cannot log into my soldier anymore!

if that´s what you´re facing today try this:

• try to come thru to the soldier login window (where you select your soldier) — in my case the game kept showing me that i have no soldier and need to create a new one (on lvl 44 for god´s sake)
• remove your clan tag and try to re-login. this time you´ll receive the same error i think, but then
• just re-login again and now you can select your soldier again, and also put the clan tag back in.

that solved it today for me. and i really consider not to choose battlefield 3 since ea seems to give a crap for the lots of bfbc2 customers since they seem not providing any updates for this game anymore. i mean, how old is this game anyway?

far from a release quality at all…

i´m very disappointed and wonder when games like of a quality like unreal tournament 2004 come back to stage in times of downloadable/paid content that

• run on almost every system to own
• provide usable server browsers
• allow for community content like maps and mods and chars and what have you
• have publishers that interact with the players in social media/forums (and reply and fix the problems)
• allow for real dedicated servers

yes, that would make my wishlist for today.

oh, and just to add a little tale that all of you bfbc2v players will recognize: the guys at ea really think we want to re-assign the kit specs -everytime- after we have switched to vietnam/original and played a class. so, if you happen to play as recon in vietnam your weapon settings in bfbc2 will be reset; and vice versa. how -cool- is this? never got what a great feature that makes >> always set up your stuff from the beginning. if the game was not that cool, i´d long have deinstalled it!

$ICON_TYPES['news'] = array('icon' => t3lib_extMgm::extRelPath($_EXTKEY).'res/gfx/ext_icon_ttnews_folder.gif');

must be changed to:

t3lib_SpriteManager::addTcaTypeIcon('pages', 'contains-news', '../typo3conf/ext/tt_news/res/gfx/ext_icon_ttnews_folder.gif');

this is obviously part of the deprecation message thus a no-brainer. but this way you can avoid even the first appearance of this message o.O

i like the deep club sound! technoid but natural

it remembered me for those old movies like “when the wind blows” but got a bit more of the manga flair “fear not, the real threatening poo is too heavy to fly”

• from_name
• from_email

This will do the trick. But there´s even more. If you need to provide a reply-to attribute you can do this by using these fields (which may be hidden):

• replyto_name
• replyto_from

Well, nowadays i´d recommend sophisticated mail form extensions like powermail but if you happen to edit a project that might help

the little tweak in the userTS changes all newly created terms to be a tooltip:

TCAdefaults.tx_contagged_terms.term_type = tooltip

a small UPDATE in mysql made the already existing terms to tooltips as well. a post before i saved how to have only contagged items in this sysfolder.

to avoid editor´s overkill when just creating a little tooltip i also remove some fields from the very flexible contagged terms item in PageTS:

TCEFORM.tx_contagged_terms {
 image.disabled = 1
 imagecaption.disabled = 1
 imagetitle.disabled = 1
 imagealt.disabled = 1
 exclude.disabled = 1
 term_type.disabled = 1
 term_replace.disabled = 1
 desc_short.disabled = 1
 starttime.disabled = 1
 endtime.disabled = 1
 fe_group.disabled = 1
 sys_language_uid.disabled = 1
}

i also do hide fe_group access dropdown and the system´s language selector thus making the backend experience more simple.

mod.web_list.allowedNewTables := addToList(sys_template)

if you´d like to only contain tt_news entries and tt_news categories you´d put addToList(tt_news,tt_news_cat) into the TS and then these are the only elements to create new inside that folder. if you want the sysfolder to hold only entries for the nifty contagged extension, you use addToList(tx_contagged_terms). here´s more on contagged as tool tip manager.

as i didnt find them over the net: these are the (channel 1)  notes to trigger the leds of the mm control

C#6    Preview
C6     Jog Wheel
B5     Fader 4
A#5    Fader 3
A5     Fader 2
G#5    Fader 1
G5     Mix top
F#5    Stop top
F5     Play top
E5     Mix bottom
D#5    Play bottom
D5     Stop bottom

C#5    T6
C5     T5
B4     T4
A#4    T3
A4     T2
G#4    T1

G4     S4 orange
F#4    S4 green
F4     S3 orange
E4     S3 green
D#4    S2 orange
D4     S2 green
C#4    S1 orange
C4     S1 green

weird thing is, that you need to substract one octave from every note inside traktor´s controller editor. so, if you read D4 make it D3 and you´re fine.

another handy javascript piece is yepnope. best is: both scripts join forces and reduce http requests and, thus save the world!

all in all this is great news for systems like TYPO3 that already provide conditions for environment variables like the client´s browser family, the os and so on. wouldn´t it be a nifty thing if the system chose the template to provide depending on the client´s capabilities to handle them?

bypass ip locks

if you happen to sit behind an ip barrier that i.e. stops wikileaks you might bypass it in ways (free of charge) like these

• use translate.google.com and open the page that is censored, if google is not cooperating with the bad guys
• use compressor services like loband if you can live with the html only version
• use proxies –> ixquick allows you to use a search result in proxy manner
  • use ixquick search engine and search for the censored page
  • click “proxy” behind the url of interest, then ixquick will serve as proxy

simple thing to do and it does not cost anything. of course you could set up tor to communicate privately (hence making ip resolving useless).

another approach would be to ask a service like web2mail to compress the website you want to see and let them send it to your email box. then you see the requested page after unpacking the file you received. clicking a link would result in asking web2mail for the target and another email.

All these ways were told during a talk at this year´s sigint that you can watch at media.ccc.de