48 Laws-Of-Power
Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain
The first book I ever read was read to me before falling asleep at night by my mother. It was Huck Finn by Mark Twain. You can find some of his works online to read at the following locations:
- Huck Finn – original handwritten manuscript is in the Mark Twain room of the Buffalo library
- Tom Sawyer
- Life on the Mississippi – Life on the Mississippi is recommended because of the more factual approach in the writing.
Auxiliary Information
- Steamboats Clemens served on
- Libravox – public domain Huck Finn audio book
- The 1st typeset printing of Huck Finn had a obscence joke typecast into it. About 30,000 copies were printed before the joke was found. If anyone has information on where I can buy one of these please contact me. The University of Virginia's Barrett collection holds one of the few–perhaps the only–known remaining sales prospectus with the "mutilated cut".
- An 1884 / 1885 edition – they are asking 15,000. This one sold for 1800
- Huck Finn illustrations
First edition
Quantum-Computing
Video: The race to Absolute Zero
This is the story of Dewar and Kamerlingh Onnes race to liquify gases. The ultimate challenge was helium. Dewar gavce up after hydrogen as he found it difficult to get helium and had all along gone light on equipment whilst Onnes used a more industrial approach,. Onnes received the Nobel prize for doing this.
The unfortunate thing is that later superconductivity and superfluidity was found by Onnes. Had Dewar persisted he might have found superconductivity and got the prize anyway!
The ultimate acheivement detailed is the creation of an Bose Einstein condensate in 1995.
If you like science / physics this one is for you!
Antique-Slang
Hard times – Jacking off the dog to feed the cat
Since we are in the depression of 2008 it is time to recycle a phrase used during the great depression of the 1930's. When people are really stretched financially they are said to be doing the following:
Jack off the dog to feed the cat
Eclipse PHPEclipse XAMPP Installation Notes
How to use XAMPP with Eclipse IDE
Research Link and notes
- Eclipse PHPEclipse Drupal Setup – the IBM version – is old. Better to use XAMPP install as it has everything and appears PHPEclipse already assumes its usage although it can be altered to use custom installs of Apache / MySQL / PHP – This article stops short in that it does not tell you how to run from within Eclipse. Maybe that is because it does not instruct on how to install a debugger. ( not sure )
- PHPEclipse Setup – do not check the "install as service" checkbox when installing XAMPP or you will not be able to start Apache from the XAMPP control panel
- Test your XAMPP install by clicking on this link: localhost/xampp/index.php
- Now the plugin should be sucessfully installed. Now we have to make it tie into XAMPP.
- Point XAMPP at your workspace – edit apache httpd.conf file. Default workspace location is \xampp\htdocs – All projects must be defined in the workspace directory so that PHP files can be found by the Apache Web Server. You cannot create PHP projects in other parts of the file system.
- To test the http document index.html dial in http://localhost/index.html
- Set mysql root password and phpMyAdmin password using this http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php
- Set up drupal so the install program can be run: Set up the $db_url and $base_url in the setup file
- You should be able to run a version of your install on localhost now: http://localhost/YourWebSiteDirectory … it will default to index.php in that directory. You should run and verify operation
- Next the Eclipse IDE needs to be set up so it can run the index.php script of the drupal install. See this Example for running PHP script … it is the german install but it is similar enough to see what to do. You need to point to the index.php file with the argument should point to the index.php file and include the directory path to it. At this point I observed that I could run and observe the text output of the php file run in the console tab.
SUMMARY: XDebug instructions in the xdebug.txt file packaged with XAMPP reads as follows:
1: Activate XDEBUG in apache\bin\php.ini
2: Comment out ZEND (only one zend_extension_ts is going)
3: Start PHP Scripts with session param ?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=<name>
e.g.: http://localhost/xampp/phpinfo.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=mydebug
4: Start xampp\php\debugclient-x.y.z.exe ( x.y.z being the appropriate version shipped with your XAMPP install )
More Detailed
You should have already saved the Xdebug extension DLL file to your PHP extension folder. Record down the full path of it. Now, open up your php.ini file and go down to the [XDebug] section, or create it if it’s not there. Uncomment or add the following lines:
;; Only Zend OR (!) XDebug
zend_extension_ts="D:\XAMPP\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=On
xdebug.remote_host="localhost"
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
…………more
Brazil
How to put your computer in safe mode
Every time I take a trip here in Brazil I put my computer in the safe.. I call it "safe mode".
Funny
Do not sit down in this motel – The Erectus Motel
You are liable to get something up your arse.
Let me analyze the genesis of this.
- someone came up with this idea
- they thought it was a great idea
- none of their friends told them it was a bad idea
- none of the sign contractors told them it was a bad idea
Who knows? maybe they do get alot of business?
A brief primer in Brazillian motels. People many times live with their parents until 30 years of age because of the relative amount they earn and how much a house costs. Thus they need a place away from parents to have sex. They are well appointed places.