by Jason L Froebe on November 28, 2010, 4 comments
Western Digital released firmware upgrade 1.04.10 yesterday (November 27th) for the Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player and Western Digital WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player. This caused the media players (little boxes that hook up to the tv) to no longer see some network media servers such as Playon from [...]
by Jason L Froebe on November 26, 2010, 4 comments
We’ve been upgrading a number of Sybase ASE databases from the end-of-life’d 12.5.x to v15.0.3 esd 4 the last few weeks. My coworker (Degang He) ran into an interesting error when the upgrade process was failing on sysprocedures. Database ‘my_db’: beginning upgrade step [ID 26]: alter table (table sysprocedures) Command has been aborted. Msg 3461, [...]
by Jason L Froebe on April 29, 2009, no comments
The following is a patch for bug 45563 in Exception::Class::TCF: Useless localization of scalar assignment at Exception-Class-TCF/lib/Exception/Class/TCF.pm line 255. Index: lib/Exception/Class/TCF.pm — lib/Exception/Class/TCF.pm (revision 83) +++ lib/Exception/Class/TCF.pm (working copy) @@ -251,8 +251,11 @@ my($block,@catches) = @_; my($exc,@args,$res); &$pushFrame; – $HANDLE_WARN && – local ( $SIG{‘__WARN__’} = sub { throw Exception::Class::TCF::Warning @_; } ); + + [...]
by Jason L Froebe on July 16, 2008, 5 comments
On my media server, I wanted to set up Perl’s CPAN but when I ran install Bundle::CPAN, I ctrl-c’d out of it when I noticed that bzip2 wasn’t installed. Silly me. Soon after I started receiving: Can’t call method “value” on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm Reinstalling Perl and all the related ubuntu packages doesn’t [...]