Author: Jani

Kuluttajille korvausta viestintäpalvelun viivästyessä

Viestintäpalvelun käyttäjä voi jatkossa saada korvausta, jos palvelu viivästyy tai on virheellinen. […] Lakiin tulee säännös myös viestintäpalvelun oikeudettomasta käytöstä. Säännöksellä määritellään kuluttajan vastuu esimerkiksi matkapuhelimen varkaus- tai modeemikaappaustapauksissa.

ITviikko

2006/08/31
How to Crash Internet Explorer

Ever wish you could make your friends and family switch away from Internet Explorer? Perhaps the ability to make it spontaneously crash (and I mean totally crash) just by sending them a link might sway them…

Modern Life Is Rubbish via Juha
link added

2006/08/31
WavPack: Lossless Audio Compression

“WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. […] The compression ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%.”

WavPack

They say it compresses better than FLAC at the highest levels.

2006/08/31
The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes

plaintxt.org via BlogsNow

2006/08/31
PlayStation 3 tackles world ills

“The spare processing power of Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer’s.”

BBC via Knuttz’s

2006/08/31
AlltheWeb Livesearch Beta

AlltheWeb via Knuttz’s

2006/08/31
PHP's number_format() with
PHP’s number_format() can’t take a   as a separator, which is bad when you want the separator to be whitespace inside HTML, since using a normal blank (a ” “) breaks the number when it happens to be laid out between to lines.

Svein Tjonndal has written the following little function which essentially does a number_format with   as the thousands separator:
function numberfix($number) { $number = number_format($number,0,","," "); return str_replace(" ", " ", $number); }
2006/08/30
Universalin jättiyllätys: ilmaista musiikkia netistä

Yksi maailman neljästä musiikkijätistä, Universal Music, on tehnyt sopimuksen uuden Spiralfrog-nettipalvelun kanssa, joka tuo internetiin ilmaiset lailliset musiikkilataukset. Joulukuussa avattava musiikkipalvelu on täysin mainosrahoitteinen ja musiikki on ilmaista. [Mainoksien katselun] jälkeen kappaleen saa omaksi, eli sen voi tallentaa kiintolevylle ja musiikkisoittimille.

Tietokone
linkitys omani

2006/08/30
Hippivuosien TV uudelleen käyttöön

Salakuunneltua

2006/08/30

UTF-8 substr fot PHP

“[Pulling] out an arbitrary substring which happens to cut a 2 byte UTF-8 sequence breaks the string;
<?php
header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
 
$haystack = 'Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn';
 
// Position 13 is in the middle of the ô char
$substr = substr($haystack, 0, 13);
 
print "Substr: $substr<br>";
$substr now contains badly formed UTF-8 and your browser should display something wierd as a result (probably a ?)”

Handling UTF-8 with PHP”
phpwact.org

a comment moved due to layout issues

To go around this limitation, I used the following replacement substr code, which I extracted from “UTF-8 friendly replacement functions” v0.2, by Niels Leenheer & Andy Matsubara. For some reason, at the time of writing this, Google only seems to find a PDF version of this document.

function substr($str, $start , $length = NULL) {

             preg_match_all('/[\x01-\x7F]|[\xC0-\xDF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xE0-\xEF][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]/', $str, $arr);

             if (is_int($length))

                   return implode('', array_slice($arr[0], $start, $length));

             else

                   return implode('', array_slice($arr[0], $start));

      }

2006/08/27