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7 1 USD = 6.9966 RMB

Responding to ZL, I have to say that being paid in RMB and saving in dollars I'm fairly happy at the moment.
Posted by Byron at 2008-04-14 00:12:58. More

6 Crazy New Year

No school in Suzhou all week 'cos of the snow. See http://picasaweb.google.com/bfarrow for some photos!
Posted by Byron at 2008-01-31 00:27:51. More

5 Video about Shanghai

I recommend getting the series from your favourite site for such things ... it is an excellent look at China. And Paul Merton is always an amusing chap.
Posted by Byron at 2008-01-20 12:26:31. More

4 Snowing Huangshan

Wow .... great scenery!
Posted by Byron at 2008-01-15 20:46:04. More

3 Not Be Afraid of Grace and Beauty

Hello Jiang Shuo,

An interesting an emlightening topic. On a slightly more practical note I am interested in the restaurant / garden you mentioned, Guilin(g) Garden. Where is this place as I would like to visit?
Posted by Byron at 2007-12-08 12:56:33. More

2 MovableType Successfully Installed on Windows XP

Hi again,

I just got it all installed and setup properly. Thanks to Jian Shuo Wang and Deane Barker for the info on your sites and various postings on the subject (at MT help forums too).

It took me two whole days to get it running on WinXP/Apache2/Perl5.8/MySQL3.23.55. The problem I had was that for some reason, mt-check.cgi (mt-check.pl for win32) and mt-load.cgi (mt-load.pl for win32) did not work when called from a web browser (http://localhost/mt/mt-check.pl, http://localhost/mt/mt-load.pl).

I finally figured out that they ran just fine from the WinXP command line, and that I had DBI::mysql and ImageMagick configured just fine the whole time. Actually I did get a popup error that Perl56.dll could not be found when running at the command line, but I just ignored it b/c I'm using Perl58.dll, and b/c it otherwise worked correctly and returned the correct results in the command line.

Anyway, once I ran "perl mt-load.cgi" from the command line, I could then browse to http://localhost/mt/mt.pl and that worked.

Also, adding e:\mysql\bin to WinXP PATH was necessary too.

Thanks again for the help everyone.

PS - I'm running MT on localhost just to experiment and learn, I don't have any plans to put it on a public site anytime soon.
Posted by Byron at 2003-03-17 12:46:25. More

1 MovableType Successfully Installed on Windows XP

Hi all,
I'm now installing MT on WinXP/Apache2/Perl5.8/MySQL3.23.55 and have a few questions. Everything but MT is setup and working properly.

First, what exactly is DataSource in mt.cfg supposed to refer to? That is not very clear from the documentation.

Also, I'm having trouble with DB_File and DBD::MySql, like many others have. DB_File seems to have all the correct files and directories in the right place, but I get the standard error (Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DB_File/DB_File.dll' for module DB_File...) when I load mt-load.cgi (or mt-load.pl in my case).

Is there some configuration script to run for DB_File, or some config file setting to edit to get it to work?

Thanks!
Posted by Byron at 2003-03-17 09:15:52. More