In Koei’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI for Windows PC (non PUK, English edition), there are a total of 30 event stills ( basically, pictures of important events during a campaign, viewable under Settings -> Reference -> View Event Stills ). Upon collecting all 30 and winning any scenario to unite China, you will [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2008
redhillonrails_core and broken MySQL empty string defaults
While hacking on a side project in Ruby on Rails, I ran across this weird error when trying to insert new data:
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Column ‘attr2′ cannot be null: INSERT INTO `foo` (`attr1`, `attr2`) … VALUES (‘1′, NULL)
where attr2 is a varchar (or t.string, in Rails lingo) and set to not null default ” [...]
APR and 32-bit/64-bit universal binary compilation
When compiling APR, the Apache Portable Runtime 1.3.3 (as a part of Subversion 1.5.3 as I am doing here, or not) on OS X 10.5 Leopard, you may encounter the following error at compile time.
/bin/sh /tmp/subversion-1.5.3/apr/libtool –silent –mode=compile gcc-4.2 -Os -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK -no-cpp-precomp -I./include -I/tmp/subversion-1.5.3/apr/include/arch/unix -I./include/arch/unix -I/tmp/subversion-1.5.3/apr/include/arch/unix -I/tmp/subversion-1.5.3/apr/include [...]
using ffmpeg for cutting media files – and the gotchas involved
So here I was, trying to complete some ordinary transcoding / media file cutting tasks with ffmpeg. Turns out there are some weird gotchas when using some versions of ffmpeg (in my case, SVN-r10571) on the commandline.
Problem 1: transcoding to mp3 insists on using 64kbits/s or 128kbits/s bitrate
So a simple task is to [...]
