SFTP close proximity small transfers: corrupted ..

So I am installing eclipse on a dev box to finish up a JAVA project, but one of eclipse's dependencies requires the tzupdate binary from sun.

Since I have a Sun dev account, I figure I would download it locally, and up it to whatever servers I need it on.

So I am upping it to the main dev boxes firewall machine, and SFTPing it to the actual dev box.

The tzupdate package is very small (472k), but SFTP messes it up during transfer, I am guessing because the dev box and the firewall are so close, and the file is so small...

So here are the 2 scenarios where the file transfer was corrupted:

Laptop -> Firewall -> SFTP put -> Devbox
Laptop -> Firewall -> SSH@Devbox -> SFTP get

both failed sanctity checks marvelously. In the second scenario, the connection terminated almost instantly, but it still wrote a file for some reason.

I ended up upping it to a web-server, and using standard HTTP fetch to download it.

Conclusion: If you have 2 hosts that are less than one hop away, don't use SFTP (for the time being) to transfer small files.

San Diego Chargers New Look ..

I finally found a quality breakdown of the new Charger uniform here..

I gotta say I'm a bit skeptical, but change is always good.

Google Homepage, doesn't read Blogger Cookies

Google homepage just ate my last post. Sorry guys.

In summation:

-Google homepage is pretty nifty.
-ffmpeg-php can't make animated gif's
-Australia is going to be fun.

Good bye Editplus, hello Komodo !

Editplus' waning sFtp support was the cause of the switch. You can get a free version of Komodo Edit @ Activestate's Site.

This is the First Blog Entry

So, where to begin....

I suppose I am kinda late hoping on this blog bandwagon, but, I hope in the blog-o-sphere there will be more people that can understand someone as technical minded as myself.

A little bit about me:
I code, design, produce, tools/music that appeal to me. I guess that about sums it up.

I am currently developing in Java /PHP for work, and PHP/CSS/DOM/AJAX for play.

Hopefully, this blog will be a place to release development tension, and hopefully get away from it for a while, or maybe figure something out simply through practice of explaining it textually.

Right now my biggest angst is drawing/displaying dynamic tables using DOM in IE6+.

I know I could probably draw the table, and then fill in the values later, but why would I have to ?

Everyone knows IE is compliant in it's non-compliance with standards.

The resistance here comes from a little bit of reluctance to change something I know is right, to support a browser I know is wrong, which leads me to a bit of knowledge I picked up some while ago:

"it is easier to change oneself, then to change the world"

but wouldn't changing oneself change the world as well on a minuscule scale ?

I think that's it for today.