For instance, with AWS PHP SDK, you’ll get the following error if your cURL setup is not fixed:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'cURL_Exception' with message 'cURL resource: Resource id #10; cURL error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed (cURL error code 60). See http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html for an explanation of error codes.' in C:\Users\Engin\Code\PHP\unuttumbile\AWSSDKforPHP\lib\requestcore\requestcore.class.php:824
Stack trace:
#0 C:\Users\Engin\Code\PHP\unuttumbile\AWSSDKforPHP\services\s3.class.php(895): RequestCore->send_request()
#1 C:\Users\Engin\Code\PHP\unuttumbile\AWSSDKforPHP\services\s3.class.php(1125): AmazonS3->authenticate('php-sdk-getting...', Array)
#2 C:\Users\Engin\Code\PHP\unuttumbile\AWSSDKforPHP\_samples\cli-s3_get_urls_for_uploads.php(60): AmazonS3->create_bucket('php-sdk-getting...', 's3-us-west-1.am...')
#3 {main}
thrown in C:\Users\Engin\Code\PHP\unuttumbile\AWSSDKforPHP\lib\requestcore\requestcore.class.php on line 824

cURL explains the situation in depth here.

2 step easy solution:

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Source code: https://github.com/engina/9gagtension

This is where you install: Chrome Extension Page

Engin@Engin-VAIO ~/Code/uip-1.0-win/x86-gcc
$ ./uip
0 - (TAP-Win32 Adapter V9)
         fe80::b89d:19c6:5f43:ec4e%32 [0]
         0.0.0.0 [0]
1 - (VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter)
         fe80::b98e:1fe8:9121:d0f2%24 [0]
         192.168.67.1 [0]
2 - (Microsoft)
         fe80::b4cb:2e7f:d890:9004%21 [0]
         0.0.0.0 [0]
3 - (Microsoft)
         192.168.1.223 [0]
4 - (Microsoft)
         fe80::cd43:876e:3b0b:5b79%14 [0]
         0.0.0.0 [0]
5 - (Microsoft)
         fe80::2daf:5bd7:5b32:618e%15 [0]
         192.168.1.111 [0]
6 - (VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter)
         fe80::5431:7f2f:1920:632c%23 [0]
         192.168.9.1 [0]
7 - (Intel(R) 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection)
         fe80::5872:faab:8d21:2e44%10 [0]
         192.168.1.142 [0]
Choose:

This is useful as a debugging aid, a reference implementation and rapid development.

110406 23:09:00 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
110406 23:09:00 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
110406 23:09:00 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
110406 23:09:00 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
110406 23:09:01 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
110406 23:09:01 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
110406 23:09:01 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
110406 23:09:01  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
110406 23:09:02 InnoDB: 1.1.5 started; log sequence number 3061735
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Missing system table mysql.proxies_priv; please run mysql_upgrade to create it
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'events_waits_current' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'events_waits_history' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'events_waits_history_long' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'setup_consumers' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'setup_instruments' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'setup_timers' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'performance_timers' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'threads' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'events_waits_summary_by_thread_by_event_name' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'events_waits_summary_by_instance' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'events_waits_summary_global_by_event_name' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'file_summary_by_event_name' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'file_summary_by_instance' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'mutex_instances' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'rwlock_instances' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'cond_instances' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [ERROR] Native table 'performance_schema'.'file_instances' has the wrong structure
110406 23:09:02 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
110406 23:09:02 [Note] C:\PROGRA~2\EASYPH~1.0\MySql\bin\mysqld.exe: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.10-log'  socket: ''  port: 3306  MySQL Community Server (GPL)
110406 23:13:36 [ERROR] Incorrect definition of table mysql.proc: expected column 'comment' at position 15 to have type text, found type char(64).

If you look careful enough you’ll see please run mysql_upgrade to create it . So I’ve just did it and viola! It looks like fixed. Everything is working fine.

I tried to run a HTTP server on my Vista box. It couldn’t bind to that port. So I looked around a bit.

Engin@Engin-PC ~
$ netstat -n -a -p tcp -b -o

Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State           PID
  TCP    0.0.0.0:22             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       3816
 [sshd.exe]
  TCP    0.0.0.0:80             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4

 Can not obtain ownership information

From Process Explorer I can tell that it is System process. So why does such a core part of my OS listening on port 80. A rather easy way to find out is to simply netcat to that port.

$ nc localhost 80
help
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:44:26 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 326

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Bad Request</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></HEAD>
<BODY><h2>Bad Request - Invalid Verb</h2>
<hr><p>HTTP Error 400. The request verb is invalid.</p>
</BODY></HTML>

Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 hmm. A little bit googling told me that this is due to SQL Server Reporting Services. When you stop this service, port 80 will be available again.

UPDATE: There’s an update to this MySQL Workbench fetching… problem solved

I don’t know what is the proper way of handling this but this is rather a cumbersome process apparently.

You can see your datadir by issuing:

select @@datadir;

Replace this directory with your backed up datadir. Datadir can also be found in my.ini (or my.cnf in GNU/Linux I guess).

When I did, I got the following error while trying to start the MySQL server:

110331  9:56:57 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
110331  9:56:57 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
110331  9:56:57 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
110331  9:56:57 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
110331  9:56:57 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
110331  9:56:57 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: log file .\ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 55574528 bytes
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 5242880 bytes!
110331  9:56:58 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
110331  9:56:58 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
110331  9:56:58 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
110331  9:56:58 [ERROR] Aborting

110331  9:56:58 [Note] C:\PROGRA~2\EASYPH~1.0\MySql\bin\mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete

I’ve added “innodb_log_file_size = 53M” parameter to my my.cnf and the server started just fine. You see the 55574528 in the above error log ? That is precisely 53M (55574528/(1024*1024)=53). Though MySQL Workbench still can’t browse the databases in the UI, it tells me

Error:	Time: 10:56:43	Message: Error Code: 1548
Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted	Details: Get schema contents

Though I can use the databases as below:

use myolddb;
select * from atable;

Even though Workbench is not happy with this, it works. I’ll update if I find anything useful.

Changes include:

1. Again compatible with Grooveshark
2. Faster session retriving, hence you can log in faster!
3. Handles bad file names
4. More cross platform file handling.

Download the update.

Today, it turned out that these notebooks have some kind of design fault, as mine also got broken. It literally disappeared all of a sudden. It is not a software problem as it is not seen by GNU/Linux or anything.

I tried to order another Wireless Module for VGN-Z790 but all my searches failed. Then, I decided to disassemble it, in hope that I could find a part number etc. After all, I have changed broken parts of my previous notebooks anyway.

It is a very painful task to disassemble this notebook. It took almost 1h to disassemble and assemble the notebook back. Here’s the service manual for VGN-Z series, it is almost impossible to work on this notebook without this. I’d expect a much better service manual from a company such as Sony, but it was quite low quality if you ask me. Dell’s service manuals were way better.

Anyway, I got it! The wireless module of VGN-Z790 is 512AN_HMW. You can see the pictures below.

Luckily, if you search with this model number you can find this part from ebay. I’ll order one soon and see if it is the module that is getting broken or it is something else that is affecting it — only if I don’t get a new notebook! This is a pretty damn good excuse to get one, amarite ?

Modify the currency to your liking. Oh, and of course, best viewed with Chrome.

In a few days, we’ll be in an industrial automation fair and only available internet connection there will be Wireless. We want to connect our devices to internet there but our devices only have Ethernet port. So we’ll rely on connection sharing of one of these OSes. The problem is that their DHCP servers are acting a bit different than a stock router you’d have.

Windows does not give responses quickly, after my DHCP REQUEST message, it takes a like 1-2 seconds to get ACK message back. And Windows’s DHCP server keeps sending OFFERs and ACKs like crazy for the previously received messages even though an IP address is acquired already. Tweaking the timeouts and making sure my client does not honor OFFERs once that state is passed fixed the issues with Windows’ DHCP server.

However the issue with the Mac was a more subtle one. My device couldn’t acquire IP address at all. I checked if my Windows laptop could get an IP from it and, not surprisingly, it could! My device couldn’t even get an OFFER for its DISCOVER message. I compared Windows’ DISCOVER message with mine to find the differences. There were two differenes:

1. Seconds field
2. Options field

secs 2 Filled in by client, seconds elapsed since client began address acquisition or renewal process.

I don’t see how this affects the behavior but it fixes the issue.

See also previous mistake I made about DHCP.

Cheers