I'm using PHP 5.2 and PCLZip to extract and place files via browser upload to a remote linux server. However, while my xml files are extracted with the correct spacing, my php files have an extra line return added each time I download it locally to view.

I'm using 7zip to compress it (using ZIP as the actual compression type), and while the site says it supports winzip and pkzip, would this be part of the issue? And if so, why isn't the xml file doubling in line space, too?

Any other open source zipping software recommended?

I wrote two drabbles for a meme and sharing is caring. :)

Title: The End
Fandom: Southern Vampire Novels
Pairing: Sookie/Bill
Rating: PG
Warning: Spoilers for Definitely Dead
Prompt: Regret
Word Count: 100


Title: Torn
Fandom: Southern Vampire Novels
Pairing: Sookie/Eric
Rating: PG
Prompt: None, only the pairing.
Word Count: 100

Right, last linkspam for today.

This made me grin muchly - from Popbitch:

Bert and Ernie do Gangsta Rap.

(And, for a slight change of pace, Beaker and Bunsen have a surreal moment.)

Tags: comedy, only on the net, vids

Hello,

I'm new to this comm, but not to this series :P I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find images of the series, I'm specially interested in foreign covers (the ones I've managed to find are very small) since I got the US covers already, and promotional images for True Blood. They are to build the fanlisting I was recently approved for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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This is the single greatest martial arts teaching DVD I have ever seen.

It's Yang style Tai Chi Chuan. The images, extensive and detailed explanations and general quality of it are way above most instructional media. The demonstrator (who is the head of the biggest Tai Chi tradition in the West) is shown from all sides, and details such as the transfer of weight, direction of toes and any changes during the movement are given as he moves. Breathing is concentrated on at all times, and the reasons WHY are always explained. These may all sound essential, but you'd be surprised how videos don't do this properly. Being a bit familiar with some of it, I can't see anything that you'd get in a public class that isn't already on here.

That's not the best bit though. It's four hours long, which is excellent value for money, and has the entire Yang style long form as well as the basic stances etc separately, but the best bit is actually the extras.

For example, I didn't expect him to explain Tai Chi theory using frickin' Ohm's Law and then P = I(squared) x R (GCSE Physics, how I don't miss thee).
And it makes perfect sense. He even goes into the Tao Te Ching, where Tajiquan falls between Tao and Yin/Yang, and lots of other stuff that make sad Taoism geeks like me get all excited.

Absolutely perfect for beginners and intermediates. His movements and stances are excellent, the instructions and explanations are detailed enough, it's just very impressive.

So, if you don't have time for the gym but fancy exercising in front of the tv a couple of times a week, get stuck in. Good luck on the low stances, his horse stance alone was low enough to have me in pain...

Tags: dude, geek, hopeless idealist, philosophy

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Today we'll be adding points for July predictions to the Xunlai Agent and updating the tonic in the Zaishen Chest. If you made predictions for July in the Xunlai Tournament House, check with your neighborhood Xunlai Agent after today's live update to claim your Tournament Reward Points. To find out the tonic flavor for August, check the Zaishen Rewards Calendar.

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I was gonna do a big post of suicide pictures, but then I discovered someone beat me to it.



 MOAR at
  www.suicidemethods.net/pix/listpix.htm

As well as pictures of people who've committed suicide, there's pictures of accident/muder injuries that are similar to the wounds you'd get from more unusual methods of suicide, eg jumping under a truck. I guess somebody here will get a kick out of this :D

Current Mood: suicidal

Has anyone read Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air?

I'm halfway through it and was finding it pleasingly inventive and bleak (pretty much what I wanted His Dark Materials to be, really) when suddenly there was a fight scene.

This guy writes fighting like I do! like I wish I ever could! Not only are all my favourite elements in there, this is the first author in ages who really gets magically-assisted physical combat. The rage of it, the conviction needed to power the dual energy for form and magical power. He gets the euphoria of mixing the two, and the speed, and lots of other things I tried to put in some hastily-written fic about five years ago. Very impressed, and starting to add this book to the "made just for meee!" list.

Did it get a good reception when it came out? I'm sure one of you will have reviewed it on here in the past, but I didn't have an image to link it to at the time.

Tags: books, geek, myth

I have a tmobile blackberry curve. Recently my call log disappeared it says something along the lines of "enter a name or phone number to make a call". And all the text messages I've sent/received disappeared as well. It does this over and over. If I leave the phone alone for a few minutes, my phone log is empty again, and my text messages are gone (emails are there still there though).

What is going on? How do I fix this?

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Also, how do I set specific ringtones for certain callers? (ie my boyfriend, my sister, my mom, etc) Thanks in advance!

Dutch town tests 'air-purifying' concrete.

I wonder what the side effects of the runoff are? Some nitrates are great for fertilizer- wouldn't it be awesome if it turns out to be a type and level that makes good fertilizer and not a new form of pollution?

Tags: news