Wordr for Finding Rhymes

Wordr is a site that searches a Wiktionary dump in order to find rhymes and alliterations. You can get quite interesting results in several languages.

Daemon Tools: File not “accessable”

I got this error when trying to mount a (legal, copyright-less) CUE file:

DAEMON tools
Unable to mount image. File not accessable

The file did not seem to be accessible. It was simple to resolve: the corresponding BIN-file had the same name, but in a different case: File.bin instead of file.cue.

Uninstalling PageAddict

I’ve decided to uninstall the PageAddict Firefox extension now. These are the sites that I’ve been browsing for more than 30 minutes in total:

Add Statistics to MediaWiki Project

Some time ago, I was looking for a MediaWiki extension to generate statistics for a wiki of mine, but found no solution. Today, though, I was looking through the source for FireStats, the statistics plugin for WordPress that I use for this blog. There was a file named firestats-mediawiki.php, and apparently, it has native support for MediaWiki. Do like this to install FireStats on your wiki project:

1. Upload FireStats to the wiki folder (/wiki/, /w/ or something like that)
2. Edit line 3 of firestats-mediawiki.php (the require_once() statement) to correspond with your directory structure.
3. Upload firestats-mediawiki.php to the extensions/ directory in the wiki root directory.
4. Add the line include("extensions/firestats-mediawiki.php"); somewhere in LocalSettings.php.
5. Enjoy!

Note that you will have to create the stats table. You don’t have to do it manually; but you have to start the script by going to the FireStats subdirectory (usually /wiki/firestats) and inputing database information. The only problem that I ran into during the installation was that the main page kept displaying the following error:

FireStats is not installed in the database, go to the Database tab to configure FireStats

It kept showing up, even after I had created the tables. The cause for this was the MediaWiki caching — after I edited the page and refreshed, it showed up like it should.

I recommend this plugin a lot.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday, me! I just turned 17.

WordPress MU error: No WPMU site defined

I just got this error trying to install Wordpress Multi-User on this host:

No WPMU site defined on this host. If you are the owner of this site, please check Debugging WPMU for further assistance.

Confusing error, especially since I previously installed it successfully. Fortunately, the excellent WordPress forum for MU helped me: just remove the wp-config.php file. Seems like I forgot to configure WordPress the first time I tried WPMU, which was the correct way. You should not upload a wp-config.php for WPMU, since it is generated automatically.

Blog Tagging

Blog tag is a contagious virus which has soon infected the whole blogosphere. When you are tagged, you have to write five not well-known facts about yourself and then tag five other bloggers. Assuming that there are 55 million bloggers out there (data from Technorati), everyone will have been tagged after twelve generations. Hurry up!

I got tagged by Daniel at Daily Blog Tips, and here are my five Tim-factoids:

1. I’m only 16 years old.
2. I’ve been working on a browser-based MMORPG called Zarin for several years, and it’s still a closed beta with two users.
3. I’m addicted to apples.
4. I lost hundreds of dollars buying booster-packs for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, and play it occasionally so I won’t feel sad about the money.
5. I’ve once been way too close of becoming a gothic, wrist-cutting emo-kid.

I tag Gustav, Aki, tobbez, Ordago and Vaandoo.

Posted January 2, 2007 in Miscellaneous.
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Google Evaluation Rating Projects

Is Google leaking referer HTTP fields? I just saw this line in Timblog’s referer log:

https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/rating/task-edit?task=43299718

Trying to access the page was fruitless, and so was trying to access https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/rating/ and https://www.google.com/evaluation/search/: both resulted in a simple page saying nothing but “Not Found Error 404″. I tried yet another level down — https://www.google.com/evaluation/ gave me a 403 forbidden error:

Forbidden

The user XXXXXX@XXXX.XX is not a member of EWOQ. Please contact the ratingprojects@google.com for access.

My Google account’s email address was there. I’ve got no idea about what this is. At least that Google worker (?) was using Firefox.

How To Restrict Editing by Non-Logged-In Users in MediaWiki

If you administer a MediaWiki Wiki, you’ve probably come across wiki spam. There is a quite simple way of fixing this. Just edit the file LocalSettings.php in the root directory and add the following line at the bottom (or anywhere else):

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

This will remove the edit-permissions from users who have not yet logged in. If a guest tries to edit, they will be prompted to log in. Since you would no longer be able to edit using only your IP address as a signature, adding the following line might be desired too:

$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

Doing so removes the IP address from the header for non-logged-in users (logged-in users wouldn’t see it anyway). Happy wikiing.

Scary CAPTCHA

I tried to register on a phpBB forum (ore.mine.gov), and got this CAPTCHA:

“What letter is on Mt. Zion?”

I don’t know! It isn’t random, either. I guess I’m not supposed to register.