Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Dave likes Minority Report. I’m going to see it tonight and I can’t wait!

drive-thru – another blog to watch out for.

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”.