Archives: 2003 October

mod_virgule and UTF-8 weirdness

October 31st, 2003, No Comments

I’m seeing more and more UTF-8 related issues pop up in code lately for some reason. Much of the debugging work I’ve done with the ODP XML dumps has been tracking down illegal XML characters and invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. Now I’ve run across a related bug in mod_virgule. The trust metrics on robots.net stopped [...]

Buying a Mini-ITX

October 26th, 2003, No Comments

After playing with the VIA Technologies Mini-ITX board for the robots.net review, I decided to buy one and put together a system for NCC to try out as a Linux server. I immediately ran into a problem – it’s hard to find anyplace to buy one. We normally buy our hardware through Tech Data, a [...]

Mini-ITX Boards

October 19th, 2003, No Comments

I’ve been catching up on my ToDo list the last couple of weeks. Most of it was boring work-related stuff. But among the fun things, I finally got the review of VIA Technologies Mini-ITX board posted on robots.net. The board will now pass on to the DPRG where it will hopefully end up in a [...]

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