Lost!

I found a neat feature on a blog that I was reading - it displayed the results of the Authors reading habits. I figured there had to be something that did the same thing for WordPress - there is! Now Reading - a pretty handy-dandy tool to show off your library publicly. Continue reading…

Hot on the heels, or rather, before the whole Laptop fiasco, some ads started appearing online. The funny part about the ads are that they insult you:

When you start following the clues, you start getting hints - oddly, the hints lead into the whole laptop issue. Connect the dots people… viral marketing at its best. Don’t believe me? Have a look see: Continue reading…

How come the little guys can’t get the free laptops? We’re more likely to actually get excited about a free laptop from Microsoft than get upset about it. We’re more likely to drool all over Vista and the Ferrari’s that where handed out. Personally, I would have taken the thing to work and let everyone else look at it (from a great distance). I’m positive that my blog would have gotten more hits

What I think is funny is that the great almighty blogosphere has decided that these gifts are blasphemy sent from hell, after it passed Go and collected $200. The good people of the world (aka: The great almighty blogosphere that knows and see all) are angry with the bloggers that received the hardware because it wasn’t disclosed right away or they posted stories so fast, they left out the facts. I for one, promise that everything that I receive, I will post about and fully disclose.

I actually received a gift about 20 minutes ago. It was brown, stinky and my wife complained about it, so I had to flush it and use air freshener.

Do people honestly think that others are going to fully disclose every single thing that they received in the mail? Seriously, this is stupid. I received a Tie, a magazine and a book in the mai…oh, it was a silk tie, the magazine was Inc. and the MCAD book was from… the tie was silver and is silk… the book is from the MSFT press. OH CRAP - the book was from Ama…the book and tie where from Amazon.

Get the point people? Stop crying about this. I’m willing to bet this was anticipated - its called Viral Marketing and it works for obvious reasons…like how the whole world is crying over these laptops (I still want one!)…

I’d almost say people where jealous over these issues. I’ll admit, I am, and I’ll take the donation when one of you bloggers are done reviewing your laptop. ;-P

I recently had the “pleasure” of installing PHP on a Win 2003 Server and ran into some odd problems here and there. The one that annoyed me the most was the manual installation of PHP/Apache - something that everyone complains about. Since this was a kind’a’sorta test environment and not a local development install, I couldn’t use XAMP or like products.

So, when you install Apache and it displays the neat & purdy “Weclome!” page, you’re halfway home. When you install PHP the manual way, you’ll sometimes run into the following error after activating PHP inside Apache (even though things look alright):

Cannot load c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll : The specified module could not be found.

So, what do you do? For starters, rip your hair out trying to verify that everything is alright and as it should be, then do the following:

Copy php4ts.dll from the root PHP directory into the to sapi directory or php4apache2.dll from the sapi to the php root. I personally go with the first option. After that, restart Apache and *poof*, it works. Don’t know why, but I hope it helps you…

It’s been a learning experience, but due to recent problems, its time for SUSE to go away. I’m literally sitting here watching XP reformat my computer…

The decision for this move was based upon updates hosing my system - twice. For some reason, the software in the Open Source Community is built in such a way that if one program requires some piece of software to be a version above what the other pieces need, things can go very badly, even when you check for conflicts… The first time this happened, I installed a brand spanking new update as soon as it was released by Novell. lesson learned after the computer refused to boot. Continue reading…