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Issues after upgrading to Drupal 4.7.0 beta 6

zendz found some problem regarding to Hall of Fame module. Its menu at the top of all pages has disappeared. I tried to directly access https://howforge.com/hof. The error message was "access denied". Fortunately, I found a patch at http://drupal.org/node/53875. Thanks chrisd and Steven for the patch of External URL support for menus broken by SA-2006-001.

How to run GDPSetup.exe

GDPSetup.exe is a file bundled with some ’s plug-ins, e.g.,  and . Usually, you don’t need to worry about install/uninstall each plug-in. However, you might be interesting to run it by yourself. There are two options; install and uninstall. To install, run it as below.

GDPSetup.exe -install

And to uninstall, see below.

GDPSetup.exe -uninstall

How to read non-English character in mailman archives using Python

I was asked to help reading e-mail with TIS-620 encoding, Thai, archived by Mailman in HTML format. Since Thai characters are above ascii range, Mailman changed all Thai characters into ascii character by running escape entity function. For example, A could be encoded to A. That means all Thai characters were converted to € - ÿ, roughly. Both IE and Firefox will display these entities in latin1 encoding no matter what I forced, e.g., TIS-620.

Fortunately, Python helps me in just a few line of code. See below.

import re
s = "ÊØ¡ÃÕ"  

Smooth procedure to upgrade Drupal 4.7.0 beta 5 to beta 6

I have just received the urgent security notification regarding to Drupal all versions. If you are using Drupal, please upgrade immediately! According to the announcement, the latest version are as follows.

  • Drupal 4.6.6
  • Drupal 4.5.8
  • Drupal 4.7.0-beta6

I upgraded howforge.com to beta 6 in last minute. Though, even it is just bugs fix version, there are lots of change from beta 5 to beta 6. Anyway, it is very easy to upgrade. Below is my instruction.

GNU-Fansubs

Claim down please. I guess you are looking so excited right now. I did the same to you. The question in my mind was what it could be. Actually, GNU Fansubs is not what we imagined to be a kind of software. GNU Fansubs is just a fansubs team and it is just a name.

If you are doubt what fansubs are, go to GNU Fansubs and see by yourself what it is.

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We all know what Google is. Google is the most popular search engine right now. It has indexed large amount of contents from around the net and it aims to index all information. I have just clearly realized what they are trying to do. In fact, we can classify all information in this world into 2 classes; public and private. Public contents are the major parts however, they are not the whole parts at all. The key is the later one, private contents.

If we think in more detail what private contents are, they are very simple to identify private contents. Private contents mean that they are only accessible by authorized persons. Actually, most authorized persons are the one who pay for private data. That’s it!