Tweet Apparently PPTP does a lot of disk IO… and it can lock up your Linux server. *sigh* Learned the hard way. To remove these services… /etc/init.d/pptp stop /etc/init.d/cron stop update-rc.d -f pptp remove update-rc.d -f cron remove
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Don’t run PPTP and Squid on mission critical Linux boxes
Posted by taewoo on February 3, 2010
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Weird characters when parsing CSV in PHP
Posted by taewoo on February 2, 2010
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Tweet For some reason, if you do this PHP $csv_file = file_get_contents(site_url($file_name)); $csv_lines = explode(“n”, $csv_file); a CSV line like this Campaign Name Ad Group Name Component Type … turns into a weird line like this: 377376C^@a^@m^@p^@a^@i^@g^@n ^@N… This has to do with PHP’s character encoding issues. Here’s the easier way to take care of [...]