Without big thinking I set up a test domain for a php based cms containing an underscore (_) (www_example.your.domain). The web interface to the domain server accepted the domain name without a problem. Subsequently I tested the cms with Firefox, everything worked fine. Then I wanted to try everything with Internet Explorer (6.0, XP, SP2) and the merchandising system surprisingly did not work. Searching for the error it turned out that logins also did not work. So the session management was quickly blamed. Trying to narrow the error down even a simple

session_start();
print_r($_SESSION);
$_SESSION['x'] = 1;

did not work as expected. Then I vaguely remembered that IE did not like underscores in cookie names. So I tried www-example.your.domain and bingo.

Checking RFC1738 section 3.1 only a-z, 0-9 and - are allowed. So it's indeed a broken domain name. Strange that the dns system did pass it through though.

I own a Samsung X20 notebook with integrated i915 video adapter and a Dell 2405FPW monitor with 1920x1200 native resolution. Up until now it only worked with Windows (igck) at it's native resolution. Out of the box X.org from Debian etch (7.0.22) did not work and insisted to put the monitor at 1600x1200 or even lower resolutions, even after patching the modetable with the 915resolution hack. After googling and finding no really helpful info I finally asked Alan Hourihane, one of the authors of the intel video driver of X, for help. By using the current Intel video driver from X.org's git, branch modesetting, it now works. Yay to modular X that I did not have to compile the whole server. Step by step how to...

I'm trying to get the rfcomm thing going with my new Nokia E60, so that I can go online over it from my laptop via UMTS. With my Nokia 6230 it worked right out of the box. So I did some research but haven't found a solution yet. This story is just an anchor for some memorable links.

ShowIP is a Mozilla Firefox extension which shows the IP Address of the current page in the browser's status bar and allows queries to different databases about it when you right click on it. The IP is colored red for an IPv4 address and green for an IPv6 address (hence the name). Since v0.7.8 these colors can be changed in the preferences menu. With a left click one can get information about the hostname of the current page. These queries are fully customizable in the settings dialog. You can also run custom local programs. The extension can be downloaded here: ShowIP 0.8.03

Ever tried the $SUBJECT task with postgresql? It's a bit difficult.
You need something along the lines of this...

Thanks to the help of Herbert Poetzl, I've now complete buildable cross compiler toolchains (binutils and gcc) for these targets: alpha arm cris frv h8300 hppa hppa64 i386 ia64 m32r m68k mips mipsel mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh shbe sh64 sh64be sparc sparc64 v850 x86_64 and these tool versions: binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2 binutils-2.16.90.0.3 (*) gcc-3.3.6 gcc-3.4.4-20050512 gcc-4.0.0 These are ...

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