This morning I noticed an email in my personal email account which is hosted on my own domain that I pay a webhost company for. I've had this website at this host company for the last 15 years. The email was in broken English and is very similar to most scam emails you will get, saying they've hacked you, they've got dirt on you (photos and videos) and to pay them in Bitcoin and they'll delete the stolen files (LOL)
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( 3 / 763 )There is an error that you can get when building your KVS code and it tells you it found a curly brace when it shouldn't.
This can happen if you start writing a section of code and then forget about it and lose track of where you were in the Code Editor. This error is saying to you, "you've left out a curly brace or a parenthesis or something" and it will report to you a line number but this is the problem. The line number given sometimes is not helpful. In my case, it said:
[15:11:46] [KVS] Compilation error: Found character '}' (Unicode 7d) where an instruction was expected
[15:11:46] [KVS] In script context "kvirc::corecall(run)", line 978, near character 5
[15:11:46] [KVS] Code listing:
[15:11:46] [KVS] 976 ...
[15:11:46] [KVS] 977
[15:11:46] [KVS] 978 }
[15:11:46] [KVS] 979 }
[15:11:46] [KVS] 980 ...
[15:11:46] [KVS] Window:
[15:11:46] [KVS] classeditor [ID: 24]
So I knew what the problem was, and I knew it was in my classes code ("Window: classeditor" but it said "script context kvirc::corecall(run), line 978". This is not that helpful because when you're using Code Editor inside KVIrc all the code is split into classes and functions so line numbers don't match what you're looking at.
How to find the location of the problem
The way to find where this problem is, is to do the following:
1. In Class Editor, click Save button
2. Next, opposite click the class in the Class Editor's hierarchical tree and export the classes code to a new temporary file somewhere (keep a backup of your old classes code just in case)
3. Now go to Scripting -> Execute Script in KVIrc and select the file you just exported. KVIrc will try to load the code but fail with the same error it found before. But this time it will give you a line number you can actually find. In my case it said:
[16:16:38] [KVS] Compilation error: Found character '}' (Unicode 7d) where an instruction was expected
[16:16:38] [KVS] In script context "F:/temp/classes.kvs", line 2598, near character 5
[16:16:38] [KVS] Code listing:
[16:16:38] [KVS] 2596 ...
[16:16:38] [KVS] 2597
[16:16:38] [KVS] 2598 }
[16:16:38] [KVS] 2599 }
[16:16:38] [KVS] 2600 ...
[16:16:38] [KVS] Window:
[16:16:38] [KVS] classeditor [ID: 24]
Now I could go to the exported file, line 2598, and see the section of my code that was causing the problem.
Ohthankgoodness.
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( 3 / 662 )I had to change my passwords recently and I found that after I did this for the credentials used to access my mysql databases that my automated backup scripts became broken. I finally found a fix for this.
It turned out that if you use special characters in your passwords like !@#$%^&*() this will confuse mysqldump when it's reading your login credentials from a my.cnf file.
The my.cnf file is used mostly when you want to create an automated method of backing up your mysql database contents. Since the process is automated and it needs a password, it's a security risk to just use the -p switch with mysqldump in your shell script because the password will be exposed in plain text in the process list of the machine while the mysqldump process runs.
The my.cnf file holds the login credentials on disk, but are set to be only readable by your user, so other users can see what's in the file. The mysqldump process can read the file to get the credentials, keeping them safe.
I found a forum posts here: https://www.virtualmin.com/node/21032 by chitoz that had a small mention about the character # being used in his password and it creates problems.
The fix for this was to edit the my.cnf file and enclose the password string in single quotes:
[client]
username = user
password = 'specialChars@$#&%'
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( 3 / 857 )For the interwebz:
1. Go to Google Play Store and update or install the Google Play Movies app
2. Open Google Play Movies & TV app
3. Once you open the app, the notifications should all disappear from your phone's notification curtain
4. In the app, go to Settings, under section "Get Notifications" untick the options you don't want to see
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