OSX, Apache, PHP, and MySql

I first tried out MAMP. Very easy to download install and BAM! you have a MAMP server running. I started to run into complexities when I had to install pear packages on the MAMP server and needed those in my development environment as well, basically when I was in shell and Eclipse.

I then ventured down the route of installing those things in the system and using the OSX preinstalls where available. OSX already comes with Apache and it was easy to uncommented the one line to start PHP5. The last thing was MySQL. I had used MacPorts previously, and had a decent experience with it, but a coworker of mine recently suggested Homebrew as an awesome way to install packages on OSX. I decided to give it a shot. Installation was a breeze and MySql was up and running in no time. Mad props to this dudes blog post.

Now that I have all the frameworks in place, next steps are to get Propel ORM a shot for database object oriented goodness. :)

Fedora 14 Post Install Shtuff

Add the RPM Fusion repositories for extra packages not available in Fedora Core:
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

Follow the wiki to get Adobe Flash plugin installed:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#Enabling_Flash_plugin

Then play some Minecraft:
http://sixgun.org/fab/blog/2011/minecraft-howto-f15?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sixgun+%28Sixgun+Productions%29

Selleck Waterfall Sandwich

Yes its silly and its the new hit on the internet, but it gives me LOLz.

Polls: Majority Supports Collective Bargaining; Walker Would Lose Election Re-Do

Polls: Majority Supports Collective Bargaining; Walker Would Lose Election Re-Do

Citrix ICAClient didn't integrate with Firefox on Ubuntu Natty A2...

Citrix ICAClient didn't integrate with Firefox on my install of Ubuntu Natty Alpha 2. Not sure why, but resolved it by pointing it to the correct binary:
/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica

Thanks to: http://www.agaveblue.org/howtos/Citrix_ICA_How-To.shtml

UbuntuStudio Natty Alpha 2 Good Radeon Performance and a Dying laptop

So I downloaded and install UbuStu Natty Alpha 2 to check it out. Mostly I wanted to see how video performance was with the newer 2.6.38 kernel and radeon drivers. Well the performance is much better than even with 2.6.26 which I run on my AVLinux install. I can even play Minecraft with it. :)

The sad news is that my laptop is finally starting to die. :( I get graphics freeze ups occacionally, usually after running something 3d for a while like Minecraft or Left 4 Dead. I finally get decent video performance on this laptop on Linux and it is burning out. Foobar.

Here I Sit

This is from a while back, waiting our the wife's labor at the hospital. My poor attempt at poetry :/

Here I sit.
At a table in the cafeteria.
A mix of scrubs and street cloths.
Stories of worry and excitement.
Reminds me of old airport terminals.
A place that combines sad with the anxious.
Here I sit.
This is why I am here.
A long time before my wife will bear.
A life so precious and without a care.
This will be the father she meets.