Category Archives: General

ILUG: Microsoft at LinuxWorld?

Simple benchmark using Smarty and PHP Accelerator:
Using the simple example given in the documentation, my test server served 23 pages/second. That was without any accelerator.
When I enabled the accelerator, the server served 51 pages/second! I’m impressed!

The Vim Online site has lots of useful Vim tips and scripts as well as download links to the latest versions of this fine editor!
I found out about word completion quite by accident a long time ago, the previous link provides more detail and explains how to use your dictionary file as a source of words.
This is the most popular tip on the site. Use * to search for the word under the cursor.
word completion using tab instead of the usual CTRL-P.
The syntax highlighting sometimes gets screwy in long documents (over a few hundred lines), but there’s a way fix that.

APOD Links!

• Apollo 17’s lunar lander from 100km away. You can explore other landing sites too!
• Asteroids have moons too.
• The Fox Fur Nebula just looks amazing.

Commission seeks views on privacy legislation – The European Commission wants our views on data protection laws. Justin noticed an odd question on their site though! hehe.

Bill Gates on Windows and Macs – requires Flash, I think version 4 will suffice.

I just installed Apt for rpm again. I just wish I had a fat pipe to download all 175MB of a dist-upgrade..

Get The Look – Design Templates – lots of tips here when designing web pages.

Ivan has a new article on “Automatic PHP Class Loading”.

GnuCash is hard to find on Google or freshmeat. I just installed it again and working away filling in the last month of receipts and bills. It’s a lot more user-friendly than it was. The first time you run it you get the option of bringing up a help page that suggests you run a “druid” to configure your accounts. Hopefully, it, along with Open Office Calc will help me keep track of my finances over the next few months!
GnuCash isn’t as hard to install as their website states. I installed the Red Hat 7.2 RPM and only needed to install 2 or 3 RPMs, each of which I found at rpmfind. Give it a go!

The new Apache worm is spreading according to this news.com article. Thankfully my servers are upgraded!

It not even 4am and the sky is bright! Myself and Owen walked home from town this morning after a night out. We could even see vapour trails in the sky, the sky was mostly clear and a bright moon cast a silver glow on everything.
The queue at the taxi rank was 10 deep so we left, and we had a great chat on the way home, even if the walk is almost 3 miles… Anyway, Martina is in Carlow and I miss her terribly! *sigh*