With PHP5 a number of new functions were added. Understandably, these functions won’t work if your web server runs PHP4. But there’s a workaround. PHP_Compat is a package of files with the missing functionality for older PHP version. Each file provides support for one function, and is usually named after the function. How do you [...]

Some of my friends seemed a little unclear about the different Ubuntus out there. One example is of a friend who asked how I can upgrade my Xubuntu installation to Feisty Fawn. “Isn’t Feisty Fawn the new Ubuntu?” and “What is the code name for the 7.04 version of Xubuntu?” are questions I recently heard. [...]

After my upgrade to Xubuntu 7.04, code named Feisty Fawn, I discovered that PHP was not installed. Before the upgrade I was notified that some packages would be uninstalled, including Apache2 web server, which includes the PHP installation. I tried to install PHP4 using apt-get and aptitude, but I got the message that php4 is [...]

Once again, Darren Rowse had me chained to his feed, when he wrote about Tim Ferris’s new book “The Four-Hour work Week“. First he posts about how the two met and what got him inspired to set up an interview via IM with Tim. A couple of minutes later he posts part 1 of the [...]

A while ago I read a clear explanation on the OpenOffice.org website to why the product is branded as OpenOffice.org (OOo) instead of just OpenOffice. The Why According to the explanation, the company wanted to brand this suite under the same trademark globally. But in the Netherlands there is a company Open Office, that sells [...]

I use Opera to test my work. But after upgrading to Feisty Fawn, Opera didn’t seem to be working. When selected in the menu, nothing happened. I tried to start it from the terminal, but I got some error messages about problems opening the device. It seems that upgrading Opera to the latest version did [...]

At around midnight last night I started the process to upgrade my Xubuntu 6.10 installation to 7.04, code named Feisty Fawn. I sat here playing Tali, some kind of poker with dice, for an hour, then I went to bed. Browsing was kinda impossible, and the download was estimated to take about 15 hours. Around [...]

Since I’m downloading the upgrade to Xubuntu 7.04, my Internet connection is very slow, so I don’t feel like sitting behind my computer. This makes room for doing some extra chores around the house, you know, those “make the husband look good” kind of activities. My mother in law gave us some goat meat. I [...]

Today I saw the orange square with a white star appearing in my taskbar, the update notifier, meaning that there are software updates available for my Xubuntu installation. This time I noticed a different block telling me that a “New distribution release ’7.04′ is available” with an “Upgrade” button. A couple of days ago the [...]

Besides keeping your code organized, the code also should be clean. There are several explanations to what clean code is. To me clean code is code that is not cluttered with unnecessary tags, functions and bits of code. In modern day tableless design environment a lot of tags can be styled so other tags are [...]