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I know a Media Converter can

lazerer — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:27:16 -0500

I know a Media Converter can remove iTunes DRM (AAC, M4P, M4V) and Windows DRM (WMV, WMA) in all Windows Operation Systems.

DRM

Susan Kenley — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:15:19 -0500

Oh my god. I've just bought the DRM of this MP3s, too. Don't do this again, this is terrible!!

If you have a look in the

elliot — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:59:00 -0500

If you have a look in the sample config. in the post, you should see an example path (/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/xdebug.so). I can't be definitive about where it's located, as the path to the extension (and in some cases, even the name of the file) depends on the version of Linux/PHP/Apache you're using. But it's likely to be called something like xdebug.so and be located in your PHP installation's extensions directory (look for the extension_dir setting in your php.ini file to work out what the latter is).

Question...

Guest — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:43:13 -0500

You wrote: "Note you need to use zend_extension= to load the extension, and you should use the absolute path to the module (.so file) to do this. Otherwise it fails."

So, what is the name of the extension? Where do I find it?

Brackup

Daniel Von Fange — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:42:09 -0500

check out Brackup - may be exactly what you want.

The simplest approach would

elliot — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:24:09 -0500

The simplest approach would be to give each user an authentication token (e.g. a sha1 hash of their username + password + salt) which they append to the RSS URL to get an authenticated feed. The RSS action only returns the feed if the token is present. That would probably do it.

What about authentication?

Joseph — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:50:39 -0500

In my site a user has to login. I've made it work so that the RSS feed is for them, but I'm not sure how to get them to be able to loggin before hand. Any ideas? I'm just using basic salt/md5 hashing and sessions to store the user.

h not necessary

Lawrence Pit — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:30:29 -0500

You don't need to use the h function here. Stuff you put in is automatically encoded.

just used one of your codes...

Damien Warman — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:28:29 -0500

the one starting 9233...

(intermittent long time reader, not really the commenty type but)

Thanks for clarifying.

elliot — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:31:44 -0500

Thanks for clarifying.

Thanks, I know about Pastie.

elliot — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:30:45 -0500

Thanks, I know about Pastie. Can it be used as a repository and then accessed via an API?

There's definitely space for

elliot — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:29:50 -0500

There's definitely space for both.

I've been playing with RRobots this week, which is about coding a software robot to a low-level API. You build higher-level rules on top of fairly low-level ones (turn gun, turn radar, accelerate, turn body, fire).

What's interesting to me in that case is the range of solutions: I found one on the web which basically used trigonometry to work out where to move and fire at the opposing robot. In my opinion, that's not interesting in this domain: my preference was to not compute, but to swing the radar around vaguely, move semi-randomly, use a more heuristic approach. For me, that's the right level of description for that kind of fight or flight behaviour.

But for language processing, I want the system to provide an interpretation. I think abstracting down into the low levels (ironically) perhaps makes it more difficult to work back up to a high-level description (e.g. in human language). Would Google work so well if they'd programmed it using neural networks? It's a tough question, that's for sure.

Glad it worked. I thought

elliot — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:09:20 -0500

Glad it worked. I thought I'd put a catch in for the use_ssl / subdomain interaction, to turn off use_ssl if subdomain is in use. (That's a limitation of S3, by the way.) I'd better check.

subdomain and use_ssl

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:48:00 -0500

Thanks for the update!

It turns out that I need to explicitly set use_ssl to false and subdomain to true. Then it works.

yea..

funny jokes man — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:58:44 -0500

My friend loved it!