Came across the 419 eater scambaiting site. I did get tons of scam emails, but never thought of them as of an opportunity to unveil the identity (or at least get a photo) of the scammer. This must be fun – unveiling scammers , especially when the scammer is pushed to waste his money for some fictional “hotel booking” or “identity proof donations”. It’s like reversing the roles of cat and mouse . Nice work, 419eater!

Avoid playing computer games.
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Do not watch the “Proof”, unless you like long, boring, pseudo-scientific movies.
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Yesterday I watched this. This is the movie which can be said to “be different, not like others”.
I will try not to retell the plot – for this, visit IMDB’s page for the three burials.
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Update: the same solution seems to still apply to dotProject 2.1.2; the post instructions have been modified for dP 2.1.2.

Update 2: fsmullin suggested a method to fix a similar error in index_table.php, the files_count_max cannot be found error when you click the FILES tab/menu item. His suggestion is now incorporated into the post.

Update 3: this post is still relevant for dotProject 2.1.3.

In one of my recent posts about project management software I stated the desire to extensively test dotProject 2.0.4. However, many shared hosting providers appear incompatible with dotProject: the right to CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES in MySQL is not granted, but is needed by dotProject.

Here’s sample error (2.0.4):

query failed(CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tasks_sum SELECT task_project, COUNT(distinct task_id) AS total_tasks,
SUM(task_duration * task_percent_complete * IF(task_duration_type = 24, 8.0, task_duration_type))/
SUM(task_duration * IF(task_duration_type = 24, 8.0, task_duration_type)) AS project_percent_complete FROM `tasks` GROUP BY task_project)

For 2.1.2, sample error would be:

Table ‘tasks_total’ doesn’t exist

I tried looking for solutions, and here’s what I found…
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You may discover, that as your blog gets more visitors and pageviews, your are getting more spam in comments to your posts. They originate as actually comments, pings, and trackbacks.
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Defining Artificial Intelligence was moved to Strong-AI.info.

In this post I’ll try to figure out (primarily for myself) what is Artificial Intelligence.
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