Using VI via putty by default will not work as each key will go back a line before inserting a character.
This can be fixed by “disabling application keypad mode” under Configuration -> Terminal -> Features

The following .htaccess is required to get mod_rewrite to work as expected under godaddy:

# Options
Options -Multiviews
Options +FollowSymLinks

#Enable mod rewrite
RewriteEngine On

#the location of the root of your site
#if writing for subdirectories, you would enter /subdirectory
RewriteBase /

#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

#This last condition enables access to the images and css
#folders, and the robots.txt file
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|css)

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

(The above code was from a google search from someone using CI with the same issue)

vs. original:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

I don’t know why one works, not the other, and I really don’t care.

On a clean installation of centOS, run the following code:

#
# Run the benchmark
#
yum install -y mesa-libGL-devel libXext-devel libX11-devel
wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz
tar -xzf unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz
cd unixbench-5.1.2
./Run

You know undo is ‘u’

Redo is ctrl + r

This can be resolved by adding the -t argument to the sendmail_path in php.ini

Since the database library in Kohana 3 is so much different than in Kohana 2, to get the last insert id of a row, use the following code instead:

$insertTable = DB::query(Database::INSERT,
		"INSERT INTO table (x, y, z) " .
		"VALUES(@x, @y, @z)"
);
$insertTable->param('@x', $x);
$insertTable->param('@y', $y);
$insertTable->param('@z', $z);
$insertTableResult = $insertTable->execute();

$insert_id = $insertTableResult[0];

I’m not too sure what the other ways of doing it is, but this is the only way I found after looking at the code.

No thanks to kohana 3’s non-existent documentation.

$insertTable = DB::query(Database::INSERT,
		"INSERT INTO table (x, y, z) " .
		"VALUES(@x, @y, @z)"
);
$insertTable->param('@x', $x);
$insertTable->param('@y', $y);
$insertTable->param('@z', $z);
list($insert_id, $total_rows_affected) = $insertTable->execute();

If you get Unable to find a route to match the URI: /some/uri/path/args on Kohana 3 when attempting to request a action with more than one paramter, you will need to update the code in /application/bootstrap.php:

Route::set('default', '(<controller>(/<action>(/<id>(/<overflow>))))', array('overflow' => '.*?'))
	->defaults(array(
		'controller' => 'home',
		'action'     => 'index',
	));

I don’t get why this wasn’t added by default, along with all the controller, helper, model, views directories in /application similar to Kohana 2. Compounded with the poor documentation, Kohana 3 really is starting to tick me off. The time saved by Kohana is wasted on these things.

I attempted to make a transparent outter border effect for a design as displayed in this post.

To make this effect in HTML/CSS, I tried to make a outter wrapper that wrapped all the contents of the website with a thick border and opacity set to 8%. Unfortunately, opacities set in parent objects will pass to its children as well; meaning all contents under this wrapper also will have an opacity of 8%. There is no way of getting around this.

The solution to this problem is to make the outter wrapper have an image background consisting of the 8% transparency as needed. Thus, there is no need to adjust the opacity in CSS directly.

To reload the current page after a certain time period:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">

To redirect to another page after a certain time period:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://steamr.com">

For some reason, executing something like ping in java generates no output, but something like uptime does.

I’m guessing the reason for this is because ping has the sticky bit set. It seems like any programs that has the sticky bit will fail to run and generate any output in java.
Edit: Actually, this doesn’t seem to be true. mount has the sticky bit set but it runs fine.
Edit: Running the java program from a shell script causes java to generate output as it normally should….
Edit: The problem solved itself… Try to remove all environment variables by running unset `env | awk -F= '/^\w/ {print $1}' | xargs` and see what happens by running