Silicon Valley Pioneer Hitchikers

August 19, 2006 · Posted in News of the Weird, Tech - Hardware, Tech - Software · Comment 

It’s an art project and a history lesson! It’s GPS/Cellphone equipped cutouts of Silicon Valley pioneers hitchiking across the country!

To read more about this project and see the cutout GPS locations and travelogue go here :
http://www.ylem.org/Hitchhikers/

Sun Microsystems also got in on the action as HP didn’t seem to want to care for their namesakes :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/sun_buys_hp/

Definately worth taking a look and reading about the guys who helped make alot of the technology we use today possible.

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Snakes on a Plane

August 19, 2006 · Posted in At the Movies ... · Comment 

A movie that tells you everything you need to know in its title. And it delivers. It is fun. It is very quotable. It even has a very basic plot. All in all a fun movie going experience and it is probably better to see it in a theatre than on video as the “group” experience seems to make the movie even better. This definately has the makings for a long lasting “cult film”. Go see it, it makes for a great guilty pleasure, and it has Samuel L. Jackson.

“Snakes on a Plane” gets a thumbs up!

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Right after: A New Hope

August 12, 2006 · Posted in Misc · Comment 

I believe this originally aired on Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network :

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PHP5 and SOAP is making me nuts

August 2, 2006 · Posted in Tech - Software · 1 Comment 

<geek rant>

Trying to generate a soap header using ext/soap in php5 :

What I need to create is :

...
<SOAP-ENV:HEADER>
     <USER xsi:type="xsd:string">myusername</USER>
     <PASSWORD xsi:type="xsd:string">mypasswd</PASSWORD>
</SOAP-ENV:HEADER>
...

What PHP5 is doing :

...
<SOAP-ENV:HEADER>
     <ns1:USER xsi:type="xsd:string">myusername</ns1:USER>
     <ns1:PASSWORD xsi:type="xsd:string">mypasswd</ns1:PASSWORD>
</SOAP-ENV:HEADER>
...

For whatever reason PHP requires the header parms to have a namespace which unfortunately causes the server to not understand the username/password in order to authenticate. Apparently at one point you could do this by giving a null to the namespace parm when you build the soap header, but that “bug” has apparently since then been squashed. Java will let you do this with the axis libraries, so it is at least theoretically possible with their interpretation of the soap spec. I guess I may try perl next and see if it lets me have a little more control of the soap header. And I may even try C/C++ with axis libraries.

Several Google searches and lots of time, hasn’t panned out, if you know a workaround I would definitely like to hear it.

<\geek rant>

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Site upgrade

August 1, 2006 · Posted in netfarious.net · Comment 

WordPress has been upgraded, if you notice anything strange, please let me know.

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