Stephen O'Neill - 2/4 - The Floating Frog

9th Sep

MySQL column truncation vulnerability

Stephen O'Neill 9th Sep 2008 0 Comments

I saw an interesting article today pointing out a couple of overlooked vulnerabilities with data truncation in MySQL. It’s more of a bug in due to how you handle the event …

9th Sep

Eat more fish!

Stephen O'Neill 9th Sep 2008 0 Comments

I was entertained on the way to work today. As I drove through Hull I saw “Colin’s fresh fish” van.

His strapline, emblazened across his van was:

“Eat more Fish”

I just …

14th Aug

Conservatives and Northerners

Stephen O'Neill 14th Aug 2008 0 Comments

I like reading the Fifteen Minutes of Oompah Blog. Today’s entry deriding the Conservative Party think tank’s completely bonkers view of the North’s prospects is particularly good.

http://mantrafilledoompah.blogspot.com/2008/08/rivers-of-black-pudding.html

13th Aug

Wednesday’s now my favourite day

Stephen O'Neill 13th Aug 2008 0 Comments

Wednesday is OpenStreetMap Mapnik render day.

Here’s what I was busy with this weekend mapping Withernsea. There’s more to do, and a …

9th Aug

A very excited geek

Stephen O'Neill 9th Aug 2008 0 Comments

Morning all, I’m very very excited, just had to write a quick post.

Today was my first attempt at gathering a serious amount of GPS trace data.

The cat woke me up at 05:20 which was what I had hoped. I got …

5th Aug

NaviGPS BGT-11

Stephen O'Neill 5th Aug 2008 0 Comments

I got my NaviGPS BGT-11 in the post last week – yay!

To get it talking to Ubuntu I used this nifty perl script. And I could download all the manuals and things from the Locosys website.

Hurrah!

5th Aug

gnome-terminal locale encoding

Stephen O'Neill 5th Aug 2008 0 Comments

Had a problem last week where my editor was defaulting to using UTF-8 whereas the files i was editing were ISO-8859-1. This ISO character set allows for extra single-byte characters beyond those in standard ASCII – including 163 …

23rd Jul

Bazaar VCS

Stephen O'Neill 23rd Jul 2008 0 Comments

This is a quick related to my employer and day-job, Ebuyer.

They started using Subversion (SVN) for version control many moons ago, quickly found that it was lacking when it came to merging support. They then used …

21st Jul

Freecycle

Stephen O'Neill 21st Jul 2008 1 Comment

To follow on from my previous post about OpenStreetMap I have on the hunt for a digital camera. The idea being that I take snaps with the camera of street signs, post boxes, churches and other landmarks then marry …

19th Jul

Open Streetmap

Stephen O'Neill 19th Jul 2008 0 Comments

A guy I know up at Ryedale LUG has got me interested in the OpenStreetMap project.

The point of the project is to create a free, editable map of the the world.

Someone I was telling about this asked …

17th Jul

S01E10 – Easy Come, Easy Go | Ubuntu UK Podcast

Stephen O'Neill 17th Jul 2008 0 Comments

Go listen to the latest Ubuntu UK podcast and be in with a (realistic!) chance of winning one of these babies. Seriously, go do it – just listen, enter the easy quiz question to their email address and wait …

16th Jul

What I learned today

Stephen O'Neill 16th Jul 2008 0 Comments

I found out two things today.

The XSD for this XML:
<someElement anAttribute=”aValue”>someValue</someElement>
goes a little something like this:
<xs:element name=”someElement” type=”some-element-def”
…

15th Jul