Open Source Desktop ( Gnome ) - Why it is a waste of time

I've been involved with Linux since around the 2.0.2x series kernels in around November 1996. Admittedly I was of pure hacker-mentality had no real idea of what it would take to run a business that depended on the desktop to perform it's duties, such as printing, saving, loading/retrieving, web-browsing, network file system connectivity. I was just happy to be able todo interesting stuff with my TCP stack and write my own software without having to fork-out big dollars for the experience.
What is the cost for basic global human health? Seven Tenths Of One Percent GDP!
What is the cost for basic global human health? Seven Tenths Of One Percent GDP! according to economist Jeffrey Sachs.
There needs to be money for basic education. There needs to be money for water and sanitation, for environmental management. I do believe that the rich countries ought to be meeting a aid target that was set thirty years ago of seven-tenths of one percent of GNP. That would be, in my view, the best investment we could make in a stable and increasingly prosperous world.
Which PHP devel environment to use on AMD64 ?
That's it, I quit, I'm throwing Zend IDE in the bin, I almost considered paying for it after trialing it, until I moved to AMD64 platform, I'm sure the IDE itself is not to blame, but rather Java's stupid problems adopting 64bit architecture (can someone remind me what the point of java was in the first place?)
Yes, I've tried Zend IDE 5.5.1 for x64 and it still crashed or got other errors - no I dont care about playing with the JRE libraries, I'm payed to develop PHP web-apps not mess around with Java.
I got flash working on 64bit AMD under debian/linux !
Alright, it IS possible to get flash working, it's not THAT hard.
heres the s3kr3t - you need to use the nspluginwrapper util that lets you run stuff on a different architecture (not platform)
$ apt-cache search nspluginwrapper
nspluginwrapper - A wrapper to run Netscape plugins on other architectures
Grab the library .tar.gz from this adobe url
extract it, you'll find a .so in there, just move that flashlibrary.so to /usr/lib/
and then just run
Debian Lenny on the Dell Aspire 5520
Got a new laptop, my old acer's screen died after a couple of months of backpacking (including leaving the laptop under my tent at metal festivals, in my backpack at the front of 75000 crowd mosh pot etc) and rigorous work, i must say, they are pretty good value considering it supplies me with my yearly income, socialising, projects, hobbies etc.

minor glitch installing mysql 5 on lenny
Looks like the mysql system tables were missing on my fresh install of Debian Lenny on my Acer Aspire 5520 laptop.
just run mysql_install_db , after this you'll need to get your mysql debian credentials back in line, these are usually stored under /etc/mysql/ (this is so mysqladmin etc will work again)
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db
WARNING: The host 'nine' could not be looked up with resolveip.
This probably means that your libc libraries are not 100 % compatible
with this binary MySQL version. The MySQL daemon, mysqld, should work
Drupal bash script to show difference between your theme function override and the original
Heres a handy script I wrote this morning, how do you easily see the differences between your mytheme_function override template.php entries and the original theme_function in the sites/all/modules, modules/, includes/ ?
It's bash to the rescue.
This script builds an index file of known themed functions, extracts your existing declared function and the theme_function from the original and your template file then uses 'diff' to show the difference in side-by-side format! awesome
More on EFI
I've started a new website to act as a hub for my home brew efi project
Check it out..
theres some SVN code you can get, and i'll be posting various information as i learn it
Cheap and easy Drupal MySQL query log analyses and profiling
One thing that will definately improve in Drupal 6.x and onwards is the performance relating to database queries, It is not uncommon for a site which has the usual formula of a few views generated blocks, translation module and a couple of other miscellaneous views entries to suddenly push your site into the 200 to 600 database queries just to generate *one page*.
Fortunately Drupal is continously improving with its caching methods and data abastraction models so it doesnt always have to hit the DB for something simple, or get it to return multiple items in one hit, but i digress.
Bitscope ! AVR! awesome!
Well I got my bitscope USB oscilloscope, thanks jeff! this is a truly great tool.
Finally I can see what is going on with my STK500 Atmel ATMEGA32 based embedded chipset ports :) makes it a lot easier as i'm working towards getting my own EFI software up and running to power - most likely either my 4.3lt or 5.3lt chrysler, but either way, it's a lot of fun to toy with, and theres a billion uses for an oscilloscope.
