As promised, I've emailed KDE. I think the questions here-in are pretty decent and something everyone who uses open-source desktop should be concerned about.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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