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René François Walter de Sluze
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Visé, Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium)
Liège, Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium)
BiographyRené de Sluze was baptised on 7 July 1622, when five days old. His name appears in various forms as is common for the age in which he lived. Perhaps the most common French form of his name is 'Sluse', but the Latin version 'Slusius' is the one form which is always used in his scientific international correspondence. His father and paternal grandfather were both named René de Sluse so we now have to be careful in giving details of three people with the same name; let us temporarily call them René the Younger, René the Elder, and René the Eldest. René the Elder was a lawyer working as clerk of the court, while his father René the Eldest served as mayor of Visé. The mother of René the Younger (René the Elder's husband) was Catherine Waltheri de Castro, a daughter of Walther Plorard who was mayor of Visé on several occasions. Several other members of the family were prominent figures, like for example René's maternal uncle Gualthère Waltheri who also trained as a lawyer and served as the secretary of papal briefs to Innocent X, pope from 1644 to 1655. After the death of Innocent X, he served as secretary of papal briefs to his successor, pope Alexander VII. Another of René's maternal uncles was Jean Waltheri who was first a canon and then the dean of the collegial church in Visé. René had two brothers: Pierre Louis and Jean Gualière who both entered the Church, the latter became a cardinal in the year following René's death. René's family had no doubts the direction that his life should take, namely a training in law leading to an ecclesiastical career, and his education was arranged with this aim in mind. His early education was from his uncle Jean Waltheri who at that time was canon of Visé.
De Sluze studied civil and canon law at the University of Louvain from the autumn of 1638 to the summer of 1642. He then went to Rome where his uncle Gualthère Waltheri was based. De Sluze studied at the University of Sapienza and received a doctorate in law in October 1643. Sapienza was the name of the building which housed the University of Rome, and it gave its name to the University. After this de Sluze remained in Rome where he greatly enjoyed the scholarly environment and he studied a large number of subjects including many languages such as Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac, as well as mathematics and astronomy. His skill in languages was such that pope Innocent X often asked him to translate various letters sent to the pope by Greek and Armenian bishops and other prelates in the East. Although mathematics was the topic which seemed least useful for his future ecclesiastical career, it was the subject which de Sluze enjoyed more than any other, although one has to say that he also greatly enjoyed many other of his wide interests. He read about the latest mathematical progress through studying the works of the Italian mathematicians Bonaventura Cavalieri and Evangelista Torricelli. While in Rome, he became friendly with the historian Pierre Lambecius from Hamburg. They remained friends for life and corresponded regularly.
De Sluze became a canon in the collegiate church in Visé on 8 October 1650, although this appointment was only a nominal one to provide him with an income and de Sluze did not need to return to Visé but remained in Rome. He left Rome in the following year when he was appointed by pope Innocent X to the Cathedral Church of St Lambert in Liège. His knowledge of law meant that he progressed rapidly within the Church and quickly rose to positions of influence [1]:-
His understanding of law and his great knowledge brought him many high positions. But his success in the administration of a small state severed him from the life he had known in Rome and thrust him into an intellectual vacuum; and his administrative duties left him little leisure for scientific work, particularly after 1659, when he became a member of the Privy Council of Prince-Bishop Maximilian Henry who was also elector of Cologne.In fact it was on 27 March 1659 that he became a member of the privy council. He became abbot of S le Ode at Amay in 1666, conseiller ordinaire in 1673, and vice-provost of the cathedral on 20 January 1676.
Given his busy life, the only route left open to de Sluze to interact with other mathematicians was by correspondence. He corresponded with many mathematicians in England, France and other European countries, for example he was in regular contact with Blaise Pascal, Christiaan Huygens, and John Wallis. However, one of his most useful links with other mathematicians and scientists came through correspondence with Henry Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society in London. Before we discuss this, let us look at his earlier mathematical contributions to which correspondence also played a large part.
De Sluze wrote to Christiaan Huygens on 14 March 1658 regarding integrating the cissoid, or rather in the language of the time, its quadrature or finding the area under the curve. This work had been inspired by Mersenne who had informed them of Torricelli's solution of the problem of calculating the volume of the solid generated by revolving a hyperbola about the axis. Jahnke writes [5]:-
The background to the study of the cissoid was two-fold. In the first place it fitted into a much broader programme which aimed at deriving the quadrature of the circle from the quadrature of curves related to the circle. The cissoid was clearly one such curve. In the second place Sluse and Huygens were puzzled, as were many of their colleagues, by the discovery of Torricelli's "improper integral". Sluse and Huygens were trying to find a similar result for other curves of infinite length. Again the cissoid was a candidate.Some weeks after de Sluze had determined the volume of revolution of the cissoid, Huygens found its quadrature. He announced the result to de Sluze on 5 April 1658 and on 28 May 1658 he sent a proof. In June 1658 Blaise Pascal issued a challenge to mathematicians to find the area under the cycloid and also to find the volume it generates when rotated about its base. Pascal of course, issued the challenge already knowing how to solve these problems. De Sluze had gained the experience necessary to solve such problems and sent his solution to Pascal who praised it highly. In 1659 de Sluze published Mesolabum, or to give it its full name, Mesolabum seu duse mediae proportionales inter extremas datas per circulum et ellipsim vel hyperbolam infinitis modis exhibitae Ⓣ. This work was on geometrical construction in which he discussed the cubature of various solids and the solutions to third and fourth degree equations which he obtained geometrically using the intersection of any conic section with a circle. The family of curves for positive integer exponents, are called the 'pearls of Sluze'. He discussed these curves as well as the problem of the volume generated by rotating the cissoid about its asymptote in Miscellanie, which was material he added to the second edition of Mesolabum in 1668.
Correspondence had continued with Huygens and other mathematicians. On 24 February 1665 Huygens wrote to de Sluze to let him know:-
I put forth instructions for sailors on the use of the pendulum clock, which will soon be corroborated with experiment. I will send an example if you understand our language.One month later de Sluze replied to Huygens saying that he would read it to the best of his ability. On 10 April he wrote again to Huygens to say that he had received the book but had been too busy to examine it fully. Huygens also sent a copy of Horologium Oscillatorium (1673) to de Sluze.
Returning to de Sluze's correspondence through Henry Oldenburg, let us quote Marie Boas Hall [3]:-
Oldenburg initiated the correspondence [with René de Sluse] in February 1666-7, writing in flattering terms of Sluse's published work. He described the aims of the Royal Society and sought an exchange of letters which should inform the English of Sluse's research undertaken since the publication of his 'Mesolabum', which, he said, had been much appreciated in England, although copies were scarce. Oldenburg inquired about the natural history of the country around Liège, a well-known centre for mining, and about "whatever novelties there may be of a mechanical kind" ... Sluse was later to reply fully to all these requests, satisfying the Society's mathematical interests in good measure as well as Oldenburg's expressed interest in natural history and the history of trades. In this first instance he responded only with polite acknowledgements, doubting, he said, whether a sustained correspondence was possible since it had taken three months for Oldenburg's letter to arrive.In fact the return letter took only nine days and a regular correspondence was possible. Oldenburg transmitted mathematical details to de Sluze based on the information given him by Wallis, Brouncker and Wren concerning their latest research [3]:-
Sluse was to remain a faithful correspondent for many years and to become in 1669 the first to learn of the then little known mathematical skill and achievement of the young Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Isaac Newton. Sluse's interests were in some cases very close to those of Newton and he received eagerly the accounts of his work written by Collins specifically for Oldenburg to transmit to him.In fact Collins was reporting on Newton's work which was being explained to him by Barrow. De Sluze received information that Newton had devised a method to find tangents and on other topics that Newton had been working on such as infinite series. He responded in 1671 that he was going to publish an old work of his own on the topic of tangents, a method he had perfected using ideas from Descartes and Fermat. In the following year de Sluze sent full details of his method of finding tangents to Oldenburg, who published it in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1672 under the title An extract of a letter from the excellent Renatus Franciscus Slusius, Canon of Liège and Councellor of his Electoral Highness of Cologne. Written to the publisher in order to be communicated to the Royal Society, concerning his short and easier method of drawing tangents to all geometrical curves without labour of calculation. One has to say that this work on tangents makes de Sluze a major figure in the development of the calculus. In fact Leibniz learned much through reading de Sluze's writings.
Oldenburg responded to de Sluze with full details of Newton's method as described to him by Collins. When he received the details, de Sluze realised that his method was essentially identical to that of Newton. He wrote (see for example [3]):-
I can say nothing else of the famous Newton's method than that it seems to me to be my own, which to be sure I have used for many years now ...This generous statement by de Sluze led to an equally generous response by Newton (see for example [3]):-
By a former letter of yours I was a little dubious whether M Slusius might not apprehend, by what you wrote to him concerning me, that I pretended to his method of drawing tangents; until I understood by M Collins that you signalled to him that you thought it here of a later date. For it seems to me that he was acquainted with it some years before he printed his 'Mesolabum' and consequently before I understood it. But if it had been otherwise yet since he first imparted it to his friends and the world, it ought deservedly to be accounted his. As for the methods they are the same, though I believe derived from different principles ...There was therefore no disagreement regarding priority; the two discoveries were independent, with de Sluze making his discovery several years before Newton.
Another potential controversy arose through de Sluze and Huygens both solving Alhazen's Problem. They had both been stimulated to work on it by reading Isaac Barrow's Lectiones Opticae Ⓣ (1669) where he gave only a partial solution to the problem. Huygens sent his results to Oldenburg in which he stated that he had found an elegant solution. Some time later de Sluze told Oldenburg that he had found a good method of solution and was then sent details of Huygens' method by Oldenburg. De Sluze responded with details of his own approach which Oldenburg forwarded to Huygens. This all took a little time and de Sluze had improved his method by the time Huygens had received Oldenburg's letter. Both men agreed that their approaches were similar but, perhaps not surprisingly, both thought their own way to be the most elegant. Huygens said he would write directly to de Sluze:-
... since he is the most knowledgeable and candid of all the geometers I know.He did not do so, however, and, after both men further improved their respective approaches, the exchange was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in October 1673. De Sluze was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 16 April 1674, having been proposed by Oldenburg.
De Sluze did not write exclusively on mathematics. He also wrote on astronomy, physics, natural history, history and theological matters connected with his work in the church. An extensive list of de Sluze's research interests appears in [4];_
... his research ranged from mathematics to astronomy, chronometry, chemistry, medicine, embryology, the development of the thermometer and the barometer, and the transfusion of blood. His literary work also included a defence of the Latin language ...His historical works are quite important. He wrote a book on the death of St Lambert, bishop of Maastricht, who was murdered in 705. A chapel was built in St Lambert's honour on the spot where died and St Hubert, his successor as bishop of Maastricht, transferred his see there in 721 so creating the town of Liège. De Sluze left hundreds of pages of unpublished work, including a history of Cologne as well as much on mathematics, astronomy, physics and natural history. How de Sluze must have enjoyed being asked by Oldenburg about the history and natural history around Liège.
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- M Florkin, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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- P Gilbert, René de Sluze (Brussels, 1886).
- M B Hall, Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002).
- N Malcolm (ed.), Thomas Hobbes : The Correspondence: Volume II: 1660-1679 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994).
- H N Jahnke, A History of Analysis (American Mathematical Society Bookstore, Providence, R.I., 2003).
- F van Hulst, René Sluse (Liège, 1842).
- M Baker, Alhazen's Problem, Amer. J. Math. 4 (1) (1881), 327-331.
- E Helin et al., René-François de Sluse (1622-1685), Buttetin de la Société royale des sciences de Liège 55 (1986), 1-269.
- J van Maanen, From Quadrature to Integration: Thirteen Years in the Life of the Cissoid, The Mathematical Gazette 75 (471) (1991), 1-15.
- C le Paige, Correspondance de René François de Sluze publiée pour la première fois, Bollettino di bibliografia e di Storia delle scienze mathematiche e fisiche 17 (1884), 494-726.
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- L Rosenfeld, René-François de Sluse et le problème des Tangentes, Isis 10 (2) (1928), 416-434.
- L Rosenfeld, Marginalia to Newton's Correspondence, Isis 52 (1) (1961), 117-120.
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Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Last Update April 2009
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Menopause is the time in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop; it is also called the "change of life."
Menopause is defined as the time when there have been no menstrual periods for 12 consecutive months and no other biological or physiological cause can be identified. It is the end of fertility, the end of the childbearing years. (A woman may still, however, be able to become pregnant unless 12 consecutive months have passed without a period.)
A woman can usually tell if she is approaching menopause because her menstrual periods start changing. The medical terms used to describe this time are "perimenopause" and the "menopause transition."
Natural menopause occurs when the ovaries naturally begin decreasing their production of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.
Induced menopause occurs if the ovaries are surgically removed (by bilateral oophorectomy) or damaged by radiation or drugs. Due to the abrupt cutoff of ovarian hormones, induced menopause causes the sudden onset of hot flashes and other menopause-related symptoms such as a dry vagina and a decline in sex drive. Early menopause (before age 40), whether natural or induced, carries a greater risk for heart disease and osteoporosis since there are more years spent beyond the protective cover of estrogen.
A "simple" hysterectomy (when the uterus but not the ovaries are removed) before natural menopause should not affect the production of sex hormones and so not cause menopause (unless the nerves or blood supply to the ovaries is damaged during the hysterectomy).
The timing of natural menopause is variable. In the western world, the average age at which menopause starts is now 51. Natural menopause can, however, be in a woman's 30s or 60s. Factors influencing the time of menopause include heredity (genetics) and cigarette smoking. Smokers (and former smokers) reach menopause an average of 2 years before women who have never smoked.
There is no relation between the time of a woman's first period and her age at menopause. The age at menopause is not influenced by a woman's race, height, number of children, or use of oral contraceptives.
The changes in the menopause transition (perimenopause) begin about 6 years before the natural menopause. This is a time when the levels of hormones produced by the aging ovaries fluctuate, leading to irregular menstrual patterns (irregularity in the length of the period, the time between periods, and the level of flow) and hot flashes (a sudden warm feeling with blushing). Other changes associated with perimenopause and menopause include night sweats, mood swings, vaginal dryness, fluctuations in sexual desire (libido), forgetfulness, trouble sleeping, and fatigue (probably from the loss of sleep).


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By A. O.
Superficiality: A Common Culture of Ignorance
Those who rightly understand the greatness of Allah will behave with moral rectitude in everything they do. But superficiality distances a person completely from the sort of life that accords with the Qur'an.
The Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) says, "Wherever indecency and vile language enters becomes indecent" (Tirmidhi Hadiths).
These words warn us that baseness and chaos rule the life of anyone in such an unaware spiritual state. The place where he lives devolves into an unhappy environment open to tension and confusion and where issues can in no way be resolved. But here, an important characteristic of superficiality comes to light: It is not wholly one-sided.
Individuals who must endure the base culture of superficial people are also a part of their same unaware mindset. Members of the Religions of Superficiality immediately recognize one another and urge one another to distance themselves from the moral teachings of the Qur'an. In effect, they practically call one another to the Fire. Allah reveals this danger in the Qur'an:
". . . Such people call you to the Fire whereas Allah calls you, with His permission, to the Garden and forgiveness. He makes His signs clear to people so that hopefully they will pay heed." (Al-Baqarah: 221)
In other verses, Allah reveals how people can lead one another astray:
"Say: "Can any of your partner-deities guide to the truth?" Say: "Allah guides to the truth. Who has more right to be followed—He Who guides to the truth, or he who cannot guide unless he is guided? What is the matter with you? How do you reach your judgment?" Most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Conjecture is of no use whatsoever against the truth. Allah most certainly knows what they are doing." (Yunus: 35-36)
"If you obeyed most of those on Earth, they would misguide you from Allah's way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing." (Al-An`am: 116)
As in most other ways, those with weak faith and sick hearts exert a negative influence on others to live by superficiality. However, it must be emphasized that these people are in fact conscious of the superficiality they live out. They very well differentiate those with whom they could never share such a debased culture. They know that by means of this debased culture, it is impossible to form a relationship with genuine Muslims.
For this reason, when they come into contact with Muslims, they try their utmost to conceal their own trivial tendencies. They do not only try to hide themselves from Muslims, but also from others who seem superficial to a lesser extent. For example, such an employee may try to show his boss that he has some depth and quality to his character.
Such people display a very different personality in the company of their superficial friends. They have a distinctive way of sitting and standing; they choose different terms when they speak and a different tone of voice, assume different body language and interpret happenings quite differently. When such a person meets public officials, he may sometimes change his personality by such lavish demonstrations of respect to the point that he becomes unrecognizable.
In the same way, such a person, who can easily engage in a superficial conversation with someone who shares his way of thinking, would avoid behaving this way when he is with devout Muslims whose moral character he recognizes. He would avoid the shallow expressions of this culture, pointless and unhelpful chitchat, and making his points with exaggerated facial expressions.
However, his sudden change reveals a very important fact apart from his basic superficiality he actually lives in his soul. That is, these people deliberately and willingly choose their superficial culture and choose to live in the unaware environment it creates. In this matter, they shroud their consciences and feel no sense of discomfort, even though they know that Allah sees what they have become by acting as this debased culture demands and that He witnesses their every moment.
However, this is a weak culture that one can easily get free of, with a genuine intention. A person who decides to live only the moral life of a Muslim can decisively abandon the unawareness that this culture brings. By embracing moral qualities pleasing to Allah and appropriate for life in the next world, a person can go on living as a sincere Muslim with a good moral character. He can stand as an example for others in this regard and may expect a fine reward from Allah.
A. O. is a Turkish writer and author.


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How do architects work?
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Architects may work for an architecture or engineering firm, they may work for a government organization, they can work for a construction company, or they may be self-employed (freelance). The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics explains that architects spend a large amount of their working time in the home or company office: meeting with clients; creating reports and architectural drawings; and working with other architects and engineers. When not in an office, an architect is often at the construction site either as part of the development of plans or to ensure building progress is following the blueprint.
When a client interacts with an architect, it is typically to have them design drawings for the construction of a house or a building. If you are a client who has hired a large architecture firm, there may be a team of people working on your design. But if you are working with a freelance architect or a smaller firm, one person (or a small group) will take your concept and translate it into an architectural blueprint that a builder can use to construct a house. The plans will lay out everything from the depth of the foundation to the materials to use to the type of metal to be used in the reinforcement. Once the plans have been created and handed off to the builder, the architect may remain on the project — depending on budget — and oversee progress.


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All we wanted to know was whether or not we should be watching the Sklar brothers or not, since people talk about them occasionally and we'd never seen the show. Well, if the results are to be believed, we know less than we did before. Out of 5,742 total votes, 1,738 said the Sklar brothers are funny ... and 1,744 people — only six more — said they suck. That's, like, a Florida margin. Of course, the real winner was "Who are the Sklar brothers?" That number was 2,269 people, the runaway victor. Which is probably worse than people thinking they suck.
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Spell checkers will catch some kinds of errors, but not all. For example, they tend to miss homonyms -- words which are pronounced the same way but spelled differently, such as site/ sight, there/ their/ they're, and its/ it's. Most spell-checkers, for example, would report no error in the following sentence, despite the fact that there are three serious spelling mistakes:
- Their looking for a new sight where the gopher can build it's home.
The joint influence of British and American spelling on Canadian usage has provided an additional challenge to Canadian students: Canadians tend to follow standard British spelling for certain words (axe, cheque), to follow American spelling for others (connection, tire), and to allow either for yet more (programme/ program, labour/ labor, neighbour/ neighbor). The important thing to remember is to be consistent in usage and to follow a regular pattern when you spell. Don't mix neighbour with labor, for example. Choose one or the other pattern, and follow it closely. The best way to avoid problems with mixed British and American spelling is to keep a dictionary handy that shows Canadian usage.
Although spelling correctly is largely a matter of practice and the common-sense use of reference materials, there are four standard spelling rules. Although each has exceptions, if you study these rules carefully, you will be able to avoid most common errors, even without a spell-checker.
Written by Dorothy Turner
Spelling words with "ei" and "ie"
When the sound is a long "e" (as in feed), write "i" before "e", except after "c". After "c" reverse the spelling ("ei"):
- After other letters
- believe, yield, reprieve
- After c
- ceiling, perceive, conceit
The problem with this rule is that it works only when "ei"/"ie" sounds like the "ee" in feet. If it has any other sound, you should write "ei" even after letters other than "c":
- foreign, vein, freight
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Spelling final "y" before a suffix
When a word ends in "y" preceded by a consonant, you should usually change the "y" to "i" before adding the suffix:
- curly becomes curlier
- party becomes parties
- thirty becomes thirties, thirtieth
However, if the suffix already begins with "i", keep the "y" (except before the suffix "-ize"):
- thirty becomes thirtyish
- fry becomes frying
- agony becomes agonize
- memory becomes memorize
When the ending "y" is preceded by a vowel ("a" "e" "i" "o" or "u"), "y" does not change to "i":
- journey becomes journeying
- trolley becomes trolleys
Written by Dorothy Turner
Final Silent "e"
If a word ends in a consonant followed by a silent "e", drop the "e" before endings beginning with a vowel, but keep the "e" before endings beginning with a consonant:
- engage becomes engaging but engagement
- care becomes caring but careful
- fate becomes fatal but fateful
- scarce becomes scarcity but scarcely
Written by Dorothy Turner
Spelling Words with Double Consonants
Double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel if both of the following are true: the consonant ends a stressed syllable or a one-syllable word, and the consonant is preceded by a single vowel:
- drag becomes dragged
- wet becomes wetter
- occur becomes occurred, occurring
- refer becomes referral, referring
Written by Dorothy Turner


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Monday, June 30, 2008
PHP Firebird driver á la ActiveRecord
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Fresh Firebird Python Driver 3.2.1 Patch Release
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
So one more thing to hate gnome bloatware
read this blog
"The final feature, which would make Lazarus finally ready for 1.0 (just my opinion! I know others disagree) is unfortunately not in this list. It would be the retirement of the Gtk 1 widgetset, and the move to a fully unicode and modern Linux Toolkit. I have worked a lot in the Gtk 2 widgetset, trying to get it to a development level where it could substitute Gtk 1, but I got really frustrated, partly because of the low quality of the mixed gtk1/gtk2 interface code, but also because Gtk just doesn't help. Having worked with the Windows API, Qt, fpGUI, Cocoa and Gtk, I am absolutely sure that Gtk is the worse GUI toolkit I have ever seen. Yes, even worse then direct Windows API, because at least the Windows API works!"
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Full Circle Magazine: Issue 14 is out!
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needed for this php class where generic install is described bellow
also is now added to google code
#1 get som prerequizite
#. On Fedora.Centos
# yum install ruby subversion gcc
apt-get install ruby subversion gcc git-core automake unzip
#2.Get faad2 (here are some details)
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/faad2/faad2_2.6.1.orig.tar.gz
tar -zxvf faad2_2.6.1.orig.tar.gz
cd faad2
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install ;cd ..
#3.Get liba52 - a free ATSC A/52 stream decoder
wget http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz
tar -zxvf a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz
cd a52dec-0.7.4
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install ;cd ..
#4.Get libgsm http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libgsm.html
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libg/libgsm/libgsm_1.0.12.orig.tar.gz
tar -zxf libgsm_1.0.12.orig.tar.gz
cd gsm-1.0-pl12
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install ;cd ..
#5.Get Faac
wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/faac/faac-1.26.tar.gz
tar -zxf faac-1.26.tar.gz
cd faac
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install ;cd ..
#6.Get Lame
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar -zxf lame-3.97.tar.gz
cd lame-3.97
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install;cd ..
#7.Get xvidcore
wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.1.3.tar.bz2
tar -jxf xvidcore-1.1.3.tar.bz2
cd xvidcore-1.1.3/build/generic/
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install
cd ../../../
#8.From http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr download amrnb-18.104.22.168.tar.bz2 and amrwb-126.96.36.199.tar.bz2
wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrnb-18.104.22.168.tar.bz2
wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrwb-22.214.171.124.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf amrwb-126.96.36.199.tar.bz2
cd amrwb-18.104.22.168
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install;cd ..
tar -jxvf amrnb-18.104.22.168.tar.bz2
cd amrnb-22.214.171.124
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install;cd ..
#9.Get theora from here http://theora.org/svn/
svn co http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora
cd theora
./configure --prefix=/usr;make;make install;cd ..
#10.GEt x264 from here http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20080625-2245.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf x264-snapshot-20080625-2245.tar.bz2
cd x264-snapshot-20080625-2245
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-asm --enable-pic ;make ;make install
cd ..
#11.Finally ffmpeg from svn trunk
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libvorbis --enable-libxvid --enable-liba52 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --enable-libfaad --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc
make ; make install; cd ..
#Needed for extension after php5-dev is installed
#12.Get ffmpeg-php
wget http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.3.1.tbz2
tar -jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.3.1.tbz2
cd ffmpeg-php-0.5.3.1
./configure;make ; make install
#and enable it in php.ini
#echo 'extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/ no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so' >> /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini
#Restart Apache to load FFMPEG-PHP (Depends on OS, this is for RHEL/CentOS)
#service httpd restart
#Verify if it works
php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep ffmpeg
#13.Get mplayer
wget http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
wget http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs/
cd essential-20061022
mv * /usr/lib/codecs/
cd ..
cd MPlayer-1.0rc2/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make; make install;cd ..
#14.Get flvtool2
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
tar -zxvf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
cd flvtool2-1.0.6
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
cd ..
- ibase_affected_rows() - Return the number of rows that were affected by the previous query
- ibase_backup() - Initiates a backup task in the service manager and returns immediately
- ibase_commit_ret() - Commit a transaction without closing it
- ibase_db_info() - Request statistics about a database
- ibase_drop_db() - Drops a database
- ibase_errcode() - Return an error code
- ibase_free_event_handler() - Cancels a registered event handler
- ibase_gen_id() - Increments the named generator and returns its new value
- ibase_maintain_db() - Execute a maintenance command on the database server
- ibase_name_result() - Assigns a name to a result set
- ibase_num_params() - Return the number of parameters in a prepared query
- ibase_param_info() - Return information about a parameter in a prepared query
- ibase_restore() - Initiates a restore task in the service manager and returns immediately
- ibase_rollback_ret() - Rollback transaction and retain the transaction context
- ibase_server_info() - Request statistics about a database server
- ibase_service_attach() - Connect to the service manager
- ibase_service_detach() - Disconnect from the service manager
- ibase_set_event_handler() - Register a callback function to be called when events are posted
- ibase_wait_event() - Wait for an event to be posted by the database
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Eclipse Ganymede Released
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Eclipse 3.4 Hidden Treasures
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before i had 4 ide drives
hda - wd400bb
hdb - gb200p0
hdc - gb200p0
hdd - wd2500jb
and now i have another wd 250G sata one
mdadmin --manage --setfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/hdc
mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/hdc
add the new drive after i have created an new partition with fdisk with the same siz
fdisk /dev/sda
mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sda
watch it with cat /proc/md0
i created new raid with the space left after using 200G from each drive for
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/hdd2
wget http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf php5.3-latest.tar.bz2
cd php5.3-200806251430
my config.nice looks like this
#! /bin/sh
# Created by configure
'./configure' \
'--disable-all' \
'--with-interbase' \
'--prefix=/opt/php5.3' \
'--disable-cgi' \
sh ./config.nice
make ; make test
and then make install
/opt/php5.3/bin/php -m
[PHP Modules]
[Zend Modules]
I will work on the php changes and fix the warnings that dont allow tests to be complete in 5.3 (and later in 6.0 )
TEST 1463/4206 [ext/interbase/tests/003.phpt]^MFAIL InterBase: misc sql types (may take a while) [ext/interbase/tests/003.phpt]
this one seems to be an warning only
Warning: Division by zero in /opt/build/php5.3-200806251430/ext/interbase/tests/interbase.inc on line 108
$n = substr(rand() . rand(), 0, rand() % ($len - $prec) + 1);
the other tests that firebird extension fails
TEST 1464/4206 [ext/interbase/tests/004.phpt]^MFAIL InterBase: BLOB test [ext/interbase/tests/004.phpt]
TEST 1466/4206 [ext/interbase/tests/006.phpt]^MFAIL InterBase: binding (may take a while) [ext/interbase/tests/006.phpt]
TEST 1468/4206 [ext/interbase/tests/008.phpt]^MFAIL InterBase: event handling [ext/interbase/tests/008.phpt]
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
gnome is too big and heavy on dependencies , it's absurde complexity is driven by bonobo and idl/xml stuff
throwed together to make it more like com api from the windows world
Gnome should get rid of these , all the xml crap that slows the desktop
- GConf – for storing application settings. (keep the settings in ini or json files)
- Bonobo – a compound document technology.
- LibXML – an XML library.
- ORBit – a CORBA ORB for software componentry.
also allow java script and other languages to be included in the main desktop
like javascript , php , pascal ....
Microsoft to ODF Technical Committee: Come to Remond
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Wine Weekly News: Issue 348
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Heroes of Might and Magic 5 on Linux with Wine!
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Rakudo Perl - Perl 6 on Parrot
presentation by Patrick R. Michaud
and i read right now the Parrot Compiler Toolkit
written by the same author
and i will use them with the help of the official documentation
here are the slides
Here is the howto get it from svn
1.check out the code
svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot
or download it from cpan
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SM/SMASH/parrot-0.6.3.tar.gz
2.run the Configure script
cd parrot
perl Configure.pl --prefix=/opt/perl6
3. Make the perl6
make perl6
.... [skip the compile lines]...
./perl6 -e'say "Hello, world!"'
4. create an file goodbyeworld.pl with this content
vim goodbyeworld.pl
say "Hello, world!"
./perl6 godbyeworld.pl
5. install it on the system
make reallyinstall
/opt/perl6/bin/perl6 -e"say 'Hello, world.'"
Friday, June 20, 2008
[Lazarus] Google says "this site may harm your computer"
From google:i really hate you , thank that i have alternative browsers ...
"Malicious software includes 2 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted
in an average of 9 new processes on the target machine.
yes firefox3.0 i'm stupid enough to install viruses , in fact you might notice
that i really want to read content from he lazarus wiki , i'm really sure
and mature enough , i'm not kidding , and i hate the red stuff and the angry mail man
That means that firefox smells or something ?
That mean firefox is less open source ? yes is proprietary
read the licence agreement ....
[I wonder how to port it on firebird , seems that it works already on postgresql and sqlite so an port can be done easily]
$cd /var/www
$wget http://www.movabletype.org/downloads/MTOS-4.12-en.zip
$unzip MTOS-4.12-en.zip
$chown -R www-data.www-data MTOS-4.12-en
$chmod g+rw -R MTOS-4.12-en
$mv MTOS-4.12-en mt
mysql> create database movabletype;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> quit
add in apache conf
$sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Options Indexes ExecCGI
$sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
run the setup
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Firebird SQL Temporary Reference Update
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Firebird 2.1.1 Release Candidate is now officially announced
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You need to install all build dependencies
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev flex gperf
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Wine 1.0 Released
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(kvm is the next on the todo list)
I had to install Virtualbox 1.6.2 from here: Link on Ubuntu 8.04
and remove the old one $apt-get remove virtualbox-ose
some required packages to compile the module
sudo apt-get install bcc iasl xsltproc xalan libxalan110-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ bcc iasl xsltproc uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 libhal-dev libpulse-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
dpkg -i virtualbox_1.6.2-31466_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb
Then create the 20G disk and mount the windows 2008 iso (see the link from my previous vmware/windows2008 post )
And install guest additions from the menu
locate vboxdrv.ko
dpkg -L virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
(may need to locate -u first)
then I did
insmod /path/to/exact-same-kernel.../vboxdrv.ko
sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko
lsmod | grep vbox
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv status
open: Permission denied
* VirtualBox kernel module is loaded.
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
that solves it
Lorenzo Alberton has endorsed your work as Evangelist at Firebird.
[Thank you Lorenzo]
Dear Marius,
I've written this recommendation of your work to share with other LinkedIn users.
Details of the Recommendation:
"Marius is an active OSS developer and evangelist. With his constant efforts, the image and visibility of the Firebird project and its community have improved considerably."
Abuse - oldie but goldie
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How to Run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine
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The People Behind Mesa 3D
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WebHTB - Web interface for HTB-Tools, LAN bandwidth limiting
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IBM may open source DB2
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Monday, June 16, 2008
sudo apt-get remove evolution tracker evolution-common
~105MB saved
"please consult /dev/urandom"
[ED: i agree with this post about the new firefox , they (moz
Corporation ) are headed to a wrong way IMHO and i will stick to epiphany/webkit browsers i also hate the fsking awesome slow bar ]
It's a known issue that I'm not thrilled with Firefox 3. There are some nice improvements to it, but after seeing the progress of development through the betas and seeing where Firefox 3 was headed I decided it had been time to try out other browsers.
$wsdl_url =
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl_url);
Migrating to the Newest Linux File System ext4
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Build Web Services with PHP in Eclipse
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Discover How a UNIX Machine Boots
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Migrating to the Newest Linux File System ext4
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Anatomy of a Linux Flash File System
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Speaking UNIX Part 8: UNIX Processing
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funny misspelling when doing the daily dist-upgrade :)
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Firebird 2.1.1 RC1 for Ubuntu released
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Dbi2 will be based on jdbc , you can watch and test the examples from here
I came to the conclusion a year or so ago that rather than try to create
a new Driver API from scratch we should simply adopt an existing one.
The most widely know object oriented database API that's a close fit to
the DBI's needs and most database client APIs is the Java JDBC API.
It's also suitable as a Parrot API, which is a key goal for DBDI.
So I'm specifying that the DBI->DBD API will be based closely on JDBC.
How close? Very close. Specifically, closely enough that we can refer
users JDBC documentation and only document differences and (inevitable)
we should do an petition and say "please kill xp and install ubuntu on all OEM machines"
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Wine 1.0 Update
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sudo apt-get install arora
I like this quote:
Arora hopes to never become another Mozilla. The Extension system should allow for many features to be implemented outside of the browser.
Mini HowTo: How to port Perl 5 modules to Perl 6
Often, the translation of P5 -> P6 is quite mechanic
I wonder how to port dbi modules to perl6
Open source tour of Europe: Romania
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Happy birthday, Perl!
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
webkit squirrelfish logo
webkit squirrelfish logo
Originally uploaded by goopymart
SquirrelFish is faster than Tamarin
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I assume that php5 is already installed and we have the source for php5.2.x
$cd php-5.2.6/ext/interbase
$phpize or /opt/php5.2.x/bin/phpize (if is installed there)
$./configure --with-php-config=/opt/php5.2.x/bin/php-config
$make ; sudo make install
add this extension to php.ini (at the end for example)
restart apache
$sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Load phpinfo() and search for interbase extension
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Microsoft provides free VirtualPC disk images for each of their browsers all you need is to convert them to vmware/virtualbox format with qemu help
1. Download ie7 for example
IE7_VPC.EXE from this page
2.Launch it with wine
$wine IE7_VPC.EXE
then agree to the agreement
you should see an file named after is finished
XP SP2 with IE7.vhd
$ ls -lah XP\ SP2\ with\ IE7.vhd
XP SP2 with IE7.vhd
3.Convert the image to vmware format
$ qemu-img convert -f vpc "XP SP2 with IE7.vhd" -O vmdk XPIE7.vmdk
4.Open VMWare Server and click File > New
5.Go through the wizard and when you get to the "Virtual Hard Disk" page, expand "Advanced disk options", check "Use an existing virtual disk" and use the dropdown to find the new ".vmdk" file.
6.Finish the wizard and start it! (If prompted to upgrade the virtual harddrive, click "Yes")
7.Ignore any driver dialogs that ask you to insert a Windows CD. The VMWare Tools should install these drivers for you (see next step).
8.Install the VMWare tools (Virtual Machine > Install VMWare Tools) as soon as Windows boots up. If installing the tools gives you a weird error, read the next section.
9.You're done
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
that isn't emulated by qemu is almost by definition not very interesting..
QOD via linux-tiny
Want to see and try the new Ubuntu Mobile Edition ?
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24 Core, 48GB RAM Linux cluster runs on 400W
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just because it looks nice on fscking iphone doesn't mean it looks better on my browser
First thing to notice is they have added an progress bar or splash screen to watch while loading
That is the first sign of bloatware , and then that progress bar is loading forever in an infinite loop
from time to time
Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Performance Compared
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Quake 3: A True Classic That Never Dies
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Monday, June 09, 2008
First install apc module in php by following this tutorial
vi app/config/core.php
and delete the last line
Cache::config('default', array('engine' => 'File'));
and replace it with
Cache::config('default', array(
'engine' => 'Apc' ,//[required]
'duration'=> 3600, //[optional]
'probability'=> 100, //[optional]
'prefix' => Inflector::slug(APP_DIR) . '_', //[optional] prefix every cache file with this string
cd /var/www
$wget http://www.planetplanet.org/download/planet-2.0.zip
$unzip planet-2.0.zip
$cd planet-2.0/
$python planet.py examples/basic/config.ini
$lynx examples/output/index.html
or lynx http://localhost/planet-2.0/output/index.html
is good for recoding console operations (fonts are small and can't be seen in flash on youtube videos)
In that day i will deinstall my fox from desktop and use konqueror
ps: why i say dumbest because friday i tried 10 times to download firefox3.0 for x86 on my
ubuntu hardy hosted in vmware , That means that i have installed firefox 10 times ? no i hated the download counter 10 times more , give me bittorrent by default in firefox and make the download
scale , I don't need an useless counter
$sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
$ gtk-recordMyDesktop
then choose the window you want to record and encode it , then upload it to youtube
More about it in this article
I want to update my Firebird Appliance and Firebird Ultimate
Vmware Community Contributed Virtual Appliances – Community Contributed Virtual Appliances are created by members of the virtualization and application community and typically include open source applications. Learn how to submit a community contributed virtual appliance.
you need to create an file .qmail with this content
1.first one it keeps mail in the maildir directory
2.it will forward to the example.com address
3.it will insert emails in the databse for example (to check the bounce emails)
Ideas taken from this post comments
Free e-book: C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (Zip with PDF)
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Mark Shuttleworth on Netbooks pre-loaded with Ubuntu
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Firebird 2.1.1 RC1 in debian experimental
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APC - Alternative PHP Cache by default in Ubuntu
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Iptables command - simple tutorial
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Microsoft Tries to Gradually Embrace & Extend SourceForge
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Friday, June 06, 2008
I have downloaded the standard version from here
I have created and 20G disk for it in vmware ( with create new machine)
mounted the iso from the edit vmware machine
and all booted and worked only the network had some issue so i had to fix it
Here is the solution to add network
Iexplorer is insane - the settings don't let you install firefox !
Now you can ditch your windows vista and switch to ubuntu forever
I tested this access method but it was buggy with the mouse (it was staying on right and couldn't move from there )
and then used the native vnc server from ubuntu and ditched the vmware one
System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop
and clicked -> Allow other users to view your desktop
And from an my machine i connected to the vmware guest machine (check it with ifconfig)
vinagre 192.168.0.255:5900
Here's how to combine OpenOffice and Google Docs
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
Author: Tom Schaefer
This package can be used to render charts using Google Chart Web
services API.
There are several classes to define each type of supported chart
and the respective parameters.
The class generates an URL with parameters to pass to Google Chart
API so it generates an image with the defined chart.
[Quote of the day via Dynamic Languges Strikes Back]
I like this slide with Java Pig stuff :)
PDF Import and Hybrid PDFs in OpenOffice.org 3.0
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via this page
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
This utility will process statistics from /proc/schedstat such that the
busiest stats will bubble up to the top. It can alternately be sorted by the
largest stat, or by name. Stats can be included or excluded based on reg-ex
pattern matching.
You can download the tarball here:
Firebird on Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Atom cpu
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Firebird builds on both ARM and ARMEL
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sudo apt-get -o APT::Force-LoopBreak=yes install sysvutils
Then updates run fine.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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File systems are now mounted with the relatime mount option by default, for improved performance.
The relatime mount option stands for relative atime (or time of last access), and relatime will only update the atime if the previous atime is different than the mtime (modification time) or ctime (time of last status change). more info
here is my fstab with already included reatime cat /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/840c4762-57dd-4e43-befc-2047488f30d0 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
Monday, June 02, 2008
Firebird 2.0.4 packages for OpenSuse - link to repository
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and the new flash plugin is now gpu accelerated if you don't use compiz ... doh , or it should crash less , so they say in the changelog
this bug was present when i tried to do an dist-upgrade from hardy to intrepid by replacing in apt/sources.list
but with upgrade manager upgrade worked until the end but with one minor error
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get dist-upgrade


text:
Sandy Hook — 23 June 2013
This is a tremendous effort by Mr. Tracy regarding the hoaxes, Sandy Hook in particular, who has revealed that the major media sources care nothing about the people or the truth but only their own wicked agenda.
June 20, 2013
June 20, 2013
An Open Letter to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
On June 3 James Tracy sent a letter to Sun-Sentinel editor-in-chief Howard Saltz citing the paper's repeated attacks on Tracy for publicly questioning government pronouncements and overall news coverage of the Sandy Hook massacre and Boston Marathon bombing. In a June 17 response to the letter Saltz maintains that theSun-Sentinel's coverage is defensible given its newsworthiness and under the tenets of free speech.
"Our news coverage has not judged the merits of your arguments," Saltz contends. "It never will. We will report them, and let the chips fall where they may."
Tracy's article, "The Sandy Hook School Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information," received wide circulation in alternative media outlets in late December, immediately prior to the Sentinel's string of stories and commentaries highlighting Tracy.
The letter is reprinted in its entirety below followed by excerpts from Saltz's response.
James F. Tracy, PhD
Boca Raton, FL
June 3, 2013
Howard Saltz
Editor in Chief
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
500 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33394
Sent Certified Mail: Return Receipt Requested
Dear Howard Saltz,
I am writing in reference to the numerous articles and opinion piecespublished by the Sun-Sentinel regarding my public commentaries on the December 14, 201[2] Newtown massacre and the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Without seriously assessing what I have actually sought to argue, each of these pieces have almost without exception vigorously assailed my character and overall assessment of these public events while advocating for dismissal from my faculty post at Florida Atlantic University, implying or explicitly calling attention to my alleged moral or even mental incapacity to hold such a position. Taken as a whole, the uniformly negative nature of such articles and commentaries can be considered as nothing less than a concerted campaign against me and is arguably libelous.
The following are quotes from some of the news and opinion articles published by your newspaper since January 7, 2013:
"A communication professor known for conspiracy theories has stirred controversy at Florida Atlantic University … " Mike Clary, "FAU Prof Stirs Controversy By Disputing Newtown Massacre," January 7, 2013.*Published Letters to the Editor
"A tenured professor has to spout a lot of craziness before you can oust one … I find conspiracy theorists fascinating. They view the world through a permanent prism of distrust and paranoia. Maybe they were dropped on their head when they were babies, or it's something in the genes." Chan Lowe, "FAU Prof's Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory," January 11, 2013.
"James Tracy still has a job at Florida Atlantic University, FAU media relations director Lisa Metcalf said Wednesday. But beyond that, she didn't say much about Tracy, a tenured associate professor of communication who has brought much embarrassment to the university with his comments questioning the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre … I'm all for academic freedom, but there's a not-so-fine line between critical thinking and crackpot lunacy. I sure am glad I'm not FAU president Mary Jane Saunders. I don't know if I'd fire Tracy. Perhaps the best we can do is ignore him." Michael Mayo, "FAU Takes Heat for Professor James Tracy's Sandy Hook Comments," January 24, 2013.*
"So score another one in the weird column for FAU … After taking a public relations hit last month with the wacky Internet musings of tenured communications professor James Tracy about the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre …" Michael Mayo, "FAU Stadium Deal with Prison Company is Odd Way to Feather Nest," February 20, 2013.
"So far, 2013 has been a controversial year for the university. In January, associate professor James Tracy questioned on his personal blog whether the Sandy Hook massacre happened." Scott Travis, "FAU Apologizes After Jesus Assignment Sparks Outrage," March 25, 2013.*
"In January, after professor James Tracy made national news by suggesting the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre may have been staged, it took Saunders two days to release a statement saying his views were not shared by the university." Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board, "More Missteps at FAU," March 27, 2013.*
"Earlier this year, you had the public relations fiasco involving professor James Tracy, a tenured professor of communication who claimed that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings may not have happened, or didn't happen as reported. The claim got national publicity, and not the good kind." Gary Stein, "Does Stomp Jesus Show FAU Needs an Image Makeover?" March 27, 2013.*
"Unveil latest course offerings at school's 'edgy' communications department: 'Muhammad Cartoon Drawing 101,' 'Advanced Holocaust Denial,' and 'Professor James Tracy's Lies, Damn Lies and Conspiracies.'" Michael Mayo, "How Low Can FAU Go?" March 27, 2013.
" … professor James Tracy's blog musings about the Sandy Hook massacre … " Michael Mayo, "FAU President Says She's 'Totally Secure' in Job," April 3, 2013.
" … FAU's conspiracy theorist." Scott Travis, "Controversial FAU Professor Questions Boston Bombing," April 23, 2013.
"'Our own FAU handbook says an employee may be terminated for questionable conduct, professional or personal,' [FAU] trustee Robert Rubin said. 'And what Professor Tracy said wasn't?' But making comments that are embarrassing to a university is not grounds to fire a tenured professor … " Scott Travis, "Controversial FAU Professor Questions Boston Bombing," April 23, 2013.
"Tracy's Sandy Hook postings received nationwide attention and prompted FAU to issue him a formal reprimand." Scott Travis, "Controversial FAU Professor Questions Boston Bombing," April 23, 2013.*
"Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy … obviously needs a hobby so he can stop coming up with crackpot theories." Gary Stein, "Should the FAU Professor be Fired for Off-the-Wall Theories?" April 25, 2013.
"FAU Professor James Tracy offered his opinion on the recent events that occurred in Boston in the Sun Sentinel on April 24 … While the vast majority of our university professors tend to be to the left of the political spectrum, most of them try to minimize mixing their ideological views with their professional responsibilities. There are others however, who use their title and position to intimidate and coerce students who do not subscribe to their way of thinking." Caren Besner, "Some Professors Trying to Force Views on Students," May 7, 2013.
"Forget the Clowns, Send in the headlines! … James Tracy's musings …" Michael Mayo, "More Questions at FAU," May 8, 2013.
"And everyone got mad when tenured communications professor James Tracy started spouting conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre and Boston Marathon bombings on his personal blog." Michael Mayo, "FAU President's Resignation No Surprise," May 15, 2013.
"It didn't help that Saunders had to deal with a wacko professor who twice made national news for doubting the veracity of the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School and later, the Boston Marathon." Sun-Sentinel Editorial Staff, "What's Next for FAU, Given It's President's Resignation," May 16, 2013.
"As president, [Mary Jane Saunders] could not be blamed for the antics of some of her faculty (conspiracy theories …), Chan Lowe, "FAU's Saunders Resigns," May 16, 2013.
*Note: The memoryholeblog.com site had existed since March 2012. The blog and I were thrust into the national news only after the Sun-Sentinel published its January 7, 2013 story, "FAU Prof Stirs Controversy by Disputing Newtown Massacre." Thereafter the Sun-Sentinel repeatedly refers to the "controversy," suggesting its spontaneity, even though the paper played a major role in initiating and perpetuating it.
"But I was also dismayed because the Sun Sentinel chose to put the article on the front page, needlessly giving more attention to this nut-case than he deserves." Richard Mangan, "Give FAU a Break," April 28, 2013.As the above examples clearly indicate, the Sun-Sentinel has repeatedly attacked my person and character. Your paper and staff have on numerous occasions published material suggesting that I be relieved of my position. At no time, however, has your paper sought to seriously dispute what I have said or written concerning Sandy Hook or Boston, instead choosing to ride the tide of poorly informed public outrage it has played a major role in fomenting. Such conduct is not so much journalistic as it is political.
"FAU professor James Tracy certainly has to have his First Amendment rights protected. However, if the students are as rankled by his blogs as many of us are, just don't register for any of his classes." Mike Marcus, "Don't Attend James Tracy's Classes," April 28, 2013.
"When will this insanity stop? FAU associate professor James Tracy should be fired immediately. A person with his kind of thoughts has no place teaching young adults. Who knows what a mentally disturbed person like Tracy could do in the future. Let us stop hiding behind tenure." David Hofield, "Why Should Tracy's Tenure Matter," April 28, 2013.
As noted above, the entire controversy regarding my analysis of Sandy Hook massacre news coverage can be traced to a January 7 story written by Sun-Sentinel senior reporter Mike Clary. Clary expressed his delight that the story was picked up nationally in a January 8, 2013 telephone conversation with me. He again drew attention to this a few days later in a follow-up piece. "A Monday story in the Sun Sentinel in which Tracy discussed his views went viral and touched off a firestorm of controversy," Clary wrote. "While many callers and emailers defended or even applauded Tracy's remarks, others, including current and former FAU students, said they found his theories outrageous and offensive." Mike Clary, "FAU Prof Should Be Fired, Newtown Official Says," January 10, 2013.
Thus much of the "controversy" the Sun-Sentinel repeatedly points to with the underlying suggestion that it is spontaneous can be traced to its initial story—a story that your staff clearly sought to make as sensationalistic as possible. On the evening of January 7 in a telephone discussion with Mr. Clary, your reporter forcefully and repeatedly pushed me to assert that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was staged. He seemed irritated when I responded to his queries by remarking, "It's a possibility," or "The coverage suggests that it may have been." My responses mirror the commentaries on my blog.
Further, in our initial telephone interview on the afternoon of January 7 Clary sought to question me under a false pretense—stating that he had been informed that the FAU administration was potentially initiating disciplinary action against me because of my blog. I have been told by one reliable party working within the FAU administration at the time that administrators knew nothing of my blog until Clary's January 7 article was published and thereafter became a national story. Indeed, I was never spoken to by administrators about my blogging until January [18], [two] weeks after Clary's initial story ran.
I have done a considerable degree of research on both the Newtown massacre and the Boston Marathon bombing. With the above in mind, and since the Sun-Sentinel is a newspaper with a skilled staff and a significant regional and national influence, I formally challenge you or any member of your editorial or reportorial staff to a public debate on the veracity of either Sandy Hook or the Boston Marathon events as related by government and law enforcement agencies, as well as in your newspaper and by the US press more broadly, versus the arguments that I have put forth.
I am sure you will agree that such a dialogue will be of special value since it will move us beyond tactless name calling and toward consideration of substantive evidence and analysis of events with major import. If you are confident enough in your particulars of how each of the events transpired, as suggested by the paper's continued publication of such such serious and continual denunciations of my being and character, I am confident that you or your staff will be pleased to engage me in such an exchange.
If you agree to my challenge, arrangements for a suitable public forum and accommodations will be negotiated between your staff and me. If the Sun-Sentinel prevails in such a debate the public will be reassured of the paper's devotion to truth, journalistic integrity, and the censures of me will be wholly justified. I will thereafter devote myself to further contemplating and learning from the flurry of disparaging coverage and remarks your staff and its regional broadcast peers have directed toward me and my person. If you are not successful in the exchange you will publicly apologize for the uniformly negative series of reports and commentaries your newspaper has published about me over the past five months.
Thank you for your consideration of the above. I look forward to your reply.
James F. Tracy, PhD
On June 17 Mr. Saltz replied to the above correspondence via email, making the following points quoted verbatim here:
There is no concerted effort. Reporters and columnists are looking for stories, as they always do. And they're finding stories in this situation.
Are the stories you cite legitimately newsworthy? I say yes. You're a high-profile member of the community, in a position to influence others, espousing viewpoints that are unusual and perhaps inflammatory. That's newsworthy, almost by definition.
You suggest in your letter that you may have been libeled. I am quite comfortable in my belief that the SunSentinel has not libeled you. We will therefore act accordingly.
The facts provided in the articles are, to the best of my knowledge, correct and true. If you believe there is an error of fact in our coverage, please feel free to tell me. You have not cited any in your letter.
The opinions expressed are within the bounds of fair comment. You advocate unusual theories; people will always challenge unusual theories and, perhaps unfortunately, some will be offensive in doing so. The people expressing these opinions are using the same free-speech right with which you espouse your views.
We would not engage in debate. That's not what newspapers do. Your suggestion confuses our reporting of positions contrary to yours with taking positions contrary to yours. They are not the same thing. If you engage in a public debate with someone else, we would report that. You could also express your views on the Newtown and Boston Marathon situations in an op-ed article; I would be happy to publish it.
Our news coverage has not judged the merits of your arguments. It never will. We will report them, and let the chips fall where they may.


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