Firstly, you need Ruby:

sudo apt-get install ruby

Thereafter (without sudo):

gem install haml-edge

This will install Haml and Sass into your directory, but at least you will have access to the latest version. Message that appears:

WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.8 and
 /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING:  You don't have /home/tohir/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,
 gem executables will not run.
Successfully installed haml-edge-3.1.49
1 gem installed

You can test that it is the latest version by:

~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin/sass -version

Which should return:

Haml/Sass 3.1.49 (Bleeding Edge)

Lastly, there is a nice command to watch files and auto generate an updated version:

~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin/sass -t compact --watch [inputfile]:[outputfile]

like:

~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin/sass -t compact --watch browseView.scss:browseView.css

Given this, I took to finding a way that can block search results. Officially, there’s no way you can do that from within Google settings (which would have preserved that as you moved from machine to machine), but there are extensions for Firefox. Still looking for a Chrome one!

For Firefox, there are a few extensions. One is CustomizeGoogle, but it doesnt work in the latest version of Firefox.

The one that does work is SurfClarity. It allows you to list of a sites that should be filtered out. It doesn’t do it from the server-side which would save a 1kb of traffic, but nonetheless is good enough.

This isn’t the answer, but a way of how to get access to the full response:

Right Click on the Packet in Line-based text data, then choose Copy > Bytes (Printable Text Only).

This will place the full response, and you can paste it in a text editor.

However, after reading Deconstructing Nautilus and rebuilding it better, I have to admit, I enjoy it. Why?

Even though I tend to browser elsewhere by typing in the path, the UP button is probably the most used button by myself. Switching to the location bar provides no alternative, but keeping the button bar allows one a form of up button.

Secondly, CTRL+L is probably something I can live with.

Given the whole debate around this, the lesson I believe is that don’t ignore your existing users. If you are going to change something, inform your users!

Given the opensource community spirit, it wont be long before someone does a quick script to bring back the old toolbar. If you are looking to do that today, have a look at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreNautilusLocationBar

The Prophet (PBUH) had to serve in multiple roles as the leader of the Muslims, governor of Madina, prophet, etc. At this time, he divided his day into three. 1/3 for family time, 1/3 for community affairs and a 1/3 to spent in worship and prayer.

Some of the companions felt as if they were losing touch with the Prophet, given his multiple roles, fixed time in them, and the large amount of people who were all vying for his attention.

In this regard, Allah revealed the verse:

Surely Allah and His Angels bless the Prophet. Oh you, who believe, call for blessings on him, and salute with (respectable) salutations. (Chapter 33: Verse 56)

This would be their (and our way) of staying connected with him!

The Prophet (PBUH) would also add: “Whoever invokes blessings on me once, Allah will invoke blessings upon him ten times”

DNS is the system that converts a domain example www.google.com to an IP Address, something ‘computers’ can interpret and understand. When this process fails, it may appear the internet is down. All that is happening, however, is that the process of converting domain names to IP Addresses is slow (or dead).

One way to fix this is to use alternative DNS servers/addresses. By switching DNS addresses, you are basically saying, use this server to convert domains to IP addresses.

First things to check:

1. You have an internet connection. This will not help if you do have one
2. Check that entering an IP address works, example: http://41.1.224.101

• http://41.1.224.101 (vodacom.co.za)
• http://41.203.21.136 (mybroadband.co.za)
• http:// 196.8.95.20 (standardbank.co.za)
• http://74.125.43.106 (google.co.za)

If this works, but entering www.vodacom.co.za doesn’t, then changing DNS entries will help. Edit your connection settings, and try one of the following:

196.43.46.190 – SAIX
196.207.40.165 – Vodacom
168.10.2.2 – Internet Solutions (IS)
208.67.222.222 – OpenDNS
208.67.220.220 – OpenDNS alt

It is possible to mix them up, rather than using two by the same company.

How much does that amount to for you? Try the calculator below:

Read the story on Mail and Guardian

Would it not have been easier for them to stick to DeWaal Drive, Roeland Street?

SELECT * FROM stories ORDER BY storydate DESC

Now for the challenge. What happens if you are required to get the top two stories from each source? One option is to first get the order of the sources, and then loop through each one of them:

SELECT DISTINCT source FROM stories ORDER BY storydate DESC

<loop “source” as “sourceid”>

      SELECT * FROM stories WHERE source = "{sourceid}" ORDER BY storydate DESC LIMIT 2

</loop>

Another option is to do the in MySQL itself! Unsure if there is a better way of doing this, but here’s mine using UNION and Sub Selects:

(SELECT * FROM stories WHERE source =
(SELECT DISTINCT source FROM stories ORDER BY storydate DESC LIMIT 0,1) ORDER BY storydate DESC LIMIT 2)
UNION
(SELECT * FROM stories WHERE source =
(SELECT DISTINCT source FROM stories ORDER BY storydate DESC LIMIT 1,1) ORDER BY storydate DESC LIMIT 2)
UNION
(SELECT * FROM stories WHERE source =
(SELECT DISTINCT source FROM stories ORDER BY storydate DESC LIMIT 2,1) ORDER BY storydate DESC LIMIT 2)

Explanation:

The bold section are subselects and form the WHERE clause of the query. Here  we want the first, second and third as per source, but only one at a time. Once we have two results per item, we use UNION to join them together.

One thing to note though. Even though it returns the latest two stories per source, the final table is not sorted by storydate! This can be done using PHP sorting techniques. Is there a way of doing this one time in MySQL?