Schwer Log

Here’s an email I received the other day; Krugle is a pretty neat little search engine web application for source code.

From: Beta Support < betasupport@krugle.com>
Date: Jun 13, 2006 8:14 AM
Subject: Krugle Beta 7 – special

Hello August Schwer,

We’re very close to the end of our beta program, and have only one
more critical test before we go live. We’d like to verify we can
handle the load that thousands of simultaneous active users will put
on our system, and so avoid the dreaded “We got slashdotted” syndrome.

You signed up after we’d closed our beta program, but we can let you
in before we go live as a special “anonymous” user. You can do
everything that the beta users do, other than create notes or post to
the Krugle support forum.

If you’re interested, and would like to try out Krugle before the
general public, then you should:

1. Go to http://beta.krugle.com

2. Sign-in using…

Screen Name: anonymous
Password: 23@#$%326

3. Try out Krugle, and then complete the Krugle survey . We really
want to hear what you have to say, and it could make you the proud
owner of a new iPod Nano.

Thanks for your patience and support,

Ken Krugler
CTO and co-founder
Krugle, Inc.

PS – If you have any questions or issues, please send email to
betasupport@krugle.com .

MyCheckFree range error

Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer.

Huh? Apparently my address is not between ‘40′ and ‘E’.

Bug #36002 bundled pear packages fail md5sum check during make install-pear-packages
Apparently it is a known bug since January, but has not warranted a new release, so the source tar-balls from php.net are still broken.

Basically if you try to compile PHP from the source some of the PEAR code will not be installed and you will get an error something like this:

[PEAR] Archive_Tar: bad md5sum for file
/usr/src/php/Archive/Tar.php

The problem is when someone packaged up this latest release of PHP, they forgot to update the md5sums for some of the PEAR packages, so they fail the check and subsequently fail to install.

The fix is to grab the latest PEAR packages that have the bad md5sum error above from the PEAR website:

http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar
http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Getopt/
http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_IT/

Then recompile; the install should now pass all of its checks.