• Install some prerequisites:

  $ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql php5-curl php-pear mono-gmcs php5-imap curl dh-make-php dpkg-dev fakeroot build-essential cdbs php-http-request php-mail php-net-smtp php-db php-auth
  

• Download and extract FogBugz:

  $ cp ~/Downloads/fogbugz-setup-php-6.1.44.tar.gz .
  $ tar xvfz fogbugz-setup-php-6.1.44.tar.gz
  $ cd fogbugz
  

• If you do not wish to install FogBugz to /opt/fogbugz, modify INSTALL_DIR at the top of install.sh to point to your intended target (e.g. /srv/bugs.example.com).

• Create Debian packages of the missing PEAR libraries. For some reason, the php-mail-mime package in lenny is not recognised by FogBugz's install.sh, so we create a replacement.

#!/bin/sh
set -e
for PEAR_PKG in Auth_SASL HTTP_Client Mail_Mime XML_Tree
do
        PKG_TEMP=$(mktemp -d)
        cd $ PKG_TEMP 
        pear download $ PEAR_PKG 
        dh-make-pear $ PEAR_PKG *.tgz
        cd $(find -mindepth 1 -type d   head -n1)
        dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
        sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb
        rm -rf $ PKG_TEMP 
done

• Run ./install.sh. You should see something like:

$ sudo ./install.sh
/***************************************\
*            FogBugz 6 Setup
\***************************************/
--    Checking for required tools
 +      found mono 1.9.1
[..]

• FogBugz will offer to mangle your Apache configuration. Choose no and run the following, replacing /srv/bugs.example.com where appropriate:

  $ sudo ln -s /srv/bugs.example.com/Accessories/fogbugz.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/fogbugz
  $ sudo a2ensite fogbugz
  

• FogBugz will then offer to mangle your PHP configuration. Choose yes; but move the last handful of lines from (e.g. /etc/php5/apache2) into /etc/conf.d/fogbugz.ini.

• After restarting Apache, you should be able to visit http://bugs.example.com/fogbugz/install1.php to continue installation.

• On first run, FogBugz will "warn" about the lack of missing eAccelerator, a PHP JIT. Unfortunately, whilst eAccelerator is "open-source", useful distribution of it is illegal. Alternatives available in lenny would include php-apc and php-xcache.

• [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/business/media/07paper.html?_r=1&ref=business


• [2] http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/copyright-in-a-nutshell/

• Moldavia calls his ambassador from Romania
• the peaceful protests turn violent on Tuesday (while Voronion recognised for Ria Novostni that they allowed the protesters to control for a day the Presidential building and the Parliament (in Romanian)
• the Moldavian public is kept in the dark by the authorities: the national radio-television doesn't cover the events, the independent media is not allowed to report the events
• in the rural areas of Moldavia no other media is accessible except the national television which is controlled by the Communists
• Moldavian police men tear down a wall close by the Moldavian Parliament during the violent turn of the protest
  
• Moldavia accuses Romania without any proof of implication in the events in Moldavia
  
• The Romanian ambassador Filip Teodorescu, and the Counseling Minister of the Romanian Embassy in Moldova, Gabriel Gaboran, are declared persona non grata in Moldavia; Romania can't do the same since the Moldavian ambassador is not in the country
• Vladimir Voronin announces visas will be introduced for Romanians (an abussive measure since the EU should have been announced of such a measure with 48 hours in advance)
  
• Romanian authorities respond by:
• a ferm denial of the unproven accusations - from what I have seen CNN and Euronews simply don't accurately represent the declaration, and the texts put under quotes - the word "provocation" - imply that the Romanian position is not honest
  
• they declared that they will NOT declare the Moldavian ambassador as a persona non grata and that the regime of gratuitous visas for the Moldavian citizens will not change
• EU DOES NOT ANSWER AT ALL TO THIS ABUSE AGAINST EU CITIZENS
  
• Wednesday protests are quiet but media access is highly restricted and inaccurate information is aired through the national Moldavian Television
• Romanian journalists from Antena 3 were harassed, followed and, fearing for their safety, they appealed OSCE authorities in Moldavia to be able to leave the country safely
  
• Wednesday and Thursday many arrests occur in Moldavia and the Romanian officials requested the Moldavian officials to tell them if among the arrested people are any Romanian citizens; no answer was provided by the Moldavian authorities
• France, Sweden and Czehia and some other EU members declare that they "understand the complexity of the relation sensible issue between Romania and Moldavia" and appeal to Moldavia to rebound the diplomatic relation with Romania - WHAT? In Diplomatic lingo that seems to mean something like "we know Romanians are idiots, but please, Moldavian authorities, let's get back to dialogue"
  
• Today, Friday 10, the Moldavians are called to protests and the authorities are authorized to use real ammunition
• Teachers, university administration personnel, opposition representatives announce that people should not attend the protests and measures will be taken against anyone allowing people (mostly youngsters) to attend the protests
• Russia declares that "the EU has a member state that hasn't clearly delimited its borders" which obviously refers to Romania, thus attacking Romania and alleging that Romania has unionist expansions; EU DOESN'T DO ANYTHING!

• KDE/Qt4 Adept 3.0 Package Manager:

• Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings:

• On-demand Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus Integration:

This is one of the best things I ve seen all year. I thought it d take forever to setup, but it was so quick. I can be so much more productive now

Thanks to all the hard work by the fglrx packaging team, DRI, MESA, Xorg, Radeon,... etc people!

I've been using fglrx with my laptop since I've had it:

And to the people behind the Debian packaging..
* xserver-xorg-video-radeon from testing.
* libdrm-intel1 and libdrm2 from unstable
* libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental

I probably lost the ability to suspend and resume but I don't usually do it with that laptop.

Now let's hope my lapop at work will be adapted easily too :)

UPDATE: Seems you lose OpenGL 2.0 if you use the free driver. If you are doing OpenGL stuff like me then you are in trouble ;- read more

$ md5sum /proc/[0-9]*/mounts awk -F [ /]* ns[$1] = ns[$1] ? ns[$1] , $3 : $3 END for (n in ns) print n, ns[n]

$ md5sum /proc/[0-9]*/mountinfo awk -F [ /]* ns[$1] = ns[$1] ? ns[$1] , $3 : $3 END for (n in ns) print n, ns[n]

$ mkdir -p /dev/cgroup/ns
$ mount -t cgroup -o ns /dev/cgroup/ns
$ find /dev/cgroup/ns -name tasks xargs -l1 sed ':a;N;s/\n/,/g;ta'

Windmill
Originally uploaded by sfllaw.

ImportError: No module named _winreg

import sys
if sys.platform == "win32":
    try:
        import winreg
    except ImportError:
        import _winreg as winreg
elif sys.platform == "cygwin":
    import cygwinreg

Download cygwinreg
or install it with
easy_install cygwinreg

Peer to Patent Summer Research Fellowship
New York Law School
Summer 2009 Background
Peer to Patent is the groundbreaking program developed by New York Law School and run in cooperation with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office, along with the assistance of a number of private stakeholders. It harnesses the power of citizen-experts to assist patent examiners by searching for, identifying, and annotating prior art relevant to pending patent applications. A first Peer to Patent pilot was launched in June 2007. During the first year the project participants (peer reviewers) assisted in the prior art searches on 40 patent applications, generating 173 items of prior art. These items of prior art were the basis of rejection in over ten of the patent applications considered. In June 2008 the pilot was continued for a second year, and was recently extended to encompass a pilot program in the United Kingdom. Research Issue
Although Peer to Patent has attracted over 350 active peer reviewers, the project team has little or no idea as to the motivations that cause these individuals voluntarily to contribute their substantial time to the project. The average reviewer spent approximately six hours searching and annotating individual patent applications. The project team also does not fully understand the best means for attracting additional peer reviewers to the project. In order for the project to scale to larger volumes of applications, both of these points need to be understood and addressed. More generally and theoretically, the motivations of citizens in producing material for governmental use are not well-understood. This fellowship seeks to provide an account of this sort of activity, as well as generate a design for a controlled study of incentive mechanisms for these sorts of activities. Research Activity
The selected fellow will conduct interviews among a meaningful number of currently active peer reviewers to elicit their motivations for participating in the project and contributing their time. The fellow will review the non-profit motivation literature to provide a number of alternative methods of reward to determine whether any or all of them would induce the participants to continue their participation, increase their participation, encourage others to participate, or cease their participation altogether. Potential rewards may include: (a) basic recognition; (b) monetary interest; (c) cash awards; (d) prominent public recognition; (e) some other form of reward; or (f) no reward whatsoever. The fellow will develop a survey to be conducted among a wider segment of active and potential peer reviewers to test for validation of the data gathered in the initial sampling. From the results of the initial sampling, literature review, and survey, the fellow will develop findings on which to base an incentive program to attract and retain peer reviewers. The fellow will develop an experimental design to test the efficacy of each of these incentive possibilities. Term
The fellowship will commence on or about June 1, 2009 and will continue until on or about August 31, 2009. The fellowship is a full time position for the three months stipulated; but this is open to negotiation for an exceptional candidate.

• [1] http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/you-could-bring-back-the-hula-hoop-if-you-found-a-way-of-connecting-it-to-the-net-20090320-94bi.html?page=-1


• [2] http://twitter.com/


• [3] http://www.smh.com.au/


• [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol


• [5] http://www.swiss.org.au/page.php?ID=249

/     *(rw,async,no_root_squash)
/home *(rw,async,no_root_squash,nohide)
/usr  *(rw,async,no_root_squash,nohide)
/var  *(rw,async,no_root_squash,nohide)

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn. Huston Smith

Again I will let Henry Stapp say it: Everything we [now] know about Nature is in accord with the idea that the fundamental process of Nature lies outside space-time, but generates events that can be located in space-time. Stapp does not mention matter, but his phrase space-time implies it, for physics locks the three together.

The first of these differences is that Gass s is an aristocratic book, written for the literary elite, whereas mine is as plebeian as I can render its not always simple arguments.