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Just something that caught my eye when browsing the Internet. Ubuntu wins Best Distribution Award, but when you click on the link, it takes you to a page not found with the Microsoft details.
Whats the fuss – nothing. They needed to run Cold Fusion thats all. But for all their anti-this, anti-that rants, why the slip up.
On tech, a group of students were required to do a website for some Open Source Okes. They were so ‘Open Source’, the group was told to even create the graphics using an open source program. A silly imposition because this shouldn’t matter in the creation process. The group had been using Windows all the years, had the programs installed – but the Open Source okes wanted them to get a distro, (probably) reformat their pc, and learn to use GIMP.
Now calculate whether it’s worthwhile. Once the Open Source oke client was gone, they’d naturally switch back to Windows where their ‘other programs’ were.
But from people promoting Linux, I would have expected more!
Now I’m not throwing stones at anyone. I’m grateful to anyone trying to give me a few more braincells, but there is an answer to this question (or at least a personal answer).
A techie setting up a question paper!!
Do I mean Thunderbird, the wonderful, open source program?
Yip, unfortunately so. I even rebooted a few times just to make sure it wasn’t true. And it doesn’t make sense because your address book will still be there. Would Outlook Express ever do something like this?
Fortunately, there is a round about way of restoring everything. The worst mistake is to panic, uninstall or upgrade.
Here’s a typical lazy developer how-to.
- Create a new profile
- Add all your accounts (again)
- Close Thunderbird
- Find your old profile folder
- Copy the mail folders to your new profile
- Open Thunderbird again
- Walla, your email is back
Doesn’t looking at these instructions make you nauseous? Forgot to add, export your address book in the old profile, import it to the new one.
And why all these stupid things. One file called pref.js got corrupted. Silly stuff, which why it is encouraged to get mozbackup. If your prefs file ever gets corrupted you have a backup.
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Did you know that a variable name like $$var does work in PHP? Picked this up by accident during some bugfixing. But there’s a catch.
Let’s take the following:
echo $$var;
$var has to have a value. Lets say that $var=’person’; So what the line is in effect saying is: echo $person;
It’s kinda of a principle that if things works in the worst case scenario, they will work in the best case scenario. For this reason, it is often better to adjust your PHP settings to the worst, as I learnt yesterday. The worst case scenario PHP test for me is as follows:
- Magic Quotes is turned on
- Display all warnings and error message, undeclared variables, etc.
- Works with apostraphes and quotes.
The solution of course lies in:
- stripslashes
- htmlentities
- having the warnings on for anything else!
What else could there be… a PHP4 Script running on PHP5
http://www.xlab.co.uk/weblog/623
Finally one that works as it ought to works and is obtrusive javascript. As I mentioned in a previous entry, it was quite a tough one to work out.
Well done Phil!
I’ve said it before …
http://www.tohir.co.za/2005/06/rape-or-consensual-sex-and-islam.html
Some people are getting ‘smarter’. They taking ‘sex consent forms/ with them. Wonder how much of these forms people carry around with them?
I’ve come across quite a few useful software recently – most of them software.
If you ever received an archive from an Apple Mac user, it would probably in .sit format. Do a Google search for an application, and everyone will recommend Stuff-It Expander, who will force you to sign up and send you an email once a week.
Absurd – you need to register to open a rare file format, and get unwanted emails from them. A better program is ExtractNow available at http://www.extractnow.com/.
Its small, free and supports the following formats: zip, rar, iso, bin, img, imz, ima, sit, jar
Two dislikes:
- It works on drag and drop format, not integrated with Windows Explorer
- It can’t open password protected archives
Other than that, it is quite a nifty tool to have installed for whenever.
Shockingly, this is first post for 2006! Can you believe three months already have passed in this year. So what has happened in this time:
- We now have a little one in our lives whom we have named Guzaima - meaning a ‘young person with determination’. Given our concerns with the pregnancy and the seemingly miraculous way it all comes out right in the end, it was more than appropriate. I’ll post later the history of the name – quite interesting.
- My Samsung Z130 is no more. I walked into a shop where an armed robbery was in progress. Worst than that was the service from MTN. I’m now with Vodacom on a D600
- KEWL.NextGen. I’m glad to say this is on its way to stability. An improved PHP5 framework is due out this weekend, but more than that, it had a deservedly review process. At times you have to stop, take a break and assess progress. The bugs that “we’ll fix later” are being fixed. The April release should be the most stable ever.
This is exactly what the Israelis are doing, probably to the satisfaction and delight of some people. Just goes to show that Zionist disregard for the heritage of others and human rights knows no limits – sickening!
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_16170.shtml
I'm a Web Developer living in Cape Town, South Africa. Interests include: PHP, JQuery, ExtJS, Adobe AIR, Linux, Ubuntu, WordPress, Human Rights, Usability, Multimedia