SlashdotSorry, I couldn’t resist. I’ve been testing receiving data through the socket server I talked about in my last post. If you are testing without a steady stream of incoming data, you may need to generate your own UDP packets to send to your socket server. Here’s a simple script to open [...]
Sockets are the building blocks of networking connections between computers. Today I want to go though how to create a UDP listener (or socket server) in PHP. I recently had to do this to receive GPS data from some black boxes, and had a hard time finding examples of this type of UDP [...]
Ubuntu’s apt-get dist-upgrade is working much better than it used to. Actually I’m sure that it works exactly as it always has, it’s just how well all these ubuntu packages are reliable written to upgrade cleanly. When I tried it in updating my home desktop from Dapper to Edgy, that single act came with [...]
