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A pitch to Google

Posted June 11, 2010 at 11:59 pm in General | No Comments

This post is a bit off-topic from the rest of the blog but I pitched an idea to Google that I thought would be an interesting project. I’m not certain that something like this doesn’t already exist or that maybe the idea had already been thought of but pushed aside for one reason or another but my idea goes a little something like this…

Google Maps provides a vast amount of information regarding the current state of the world. For instance, I can browse to my hometown of Milwaukee and find the names of roads, freeways, places of interest, lakes, rivers, harbors, parks, national forests, neighborhoods, universities, public and federal buildings, and so much more. I haven’t even bothered with the fact that I can include options such as photos, videos, web cams, traffic, Wikipedia links, and others. Continue reading..

How to display PHP errors on your LAMP/WAMP setup

Posted May 21, 2010 at 8:00 pm in General | No Comments

Is there anything more annoying than not being able to determine why your code isn’t working? How about trying to determine a reason why without receiving any feedback such as error messages? This is what happened to a friend of mine who is attempting to learn how to program using PHP and wasn’t able to tell why his code wasn’t working properly. Luckily, the solution is quite trivial.

You’ll need to modify PHP’s initialization file called php.ini. This file is responsible for configuring many of the aspects of PHP’s behavior. I will assume for the sake of brevity that you have a working LAMP/WAMP setup. Continue reading..

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Installed

Posted May 14, 2010 at 12:39 am in General | No Comments

So I cracked and decided to see what the hype surrounding Ubuntu was since, after all, it is based on Debian. I downloaded the respective Live CD for my system and booted up. The Ubuntu Live CD started and I was presented with a nice looking GUI that allowed me to continue installation.

Everything was going smoothly until I was asked to ‘Prepare Partitions’. This part of the installation process didn’t recognize my hard disk drive. Turns out there’s a package called dmraid that needed to be removed.

In summary, if you’re experiencing a similar error during your Ubuntu 10.04 installation try the following steps:

  • Boot the Live CD
  • Instead of attempting to install right away, take a tour of Ubuntu
  • Open a terminal
  • Enter the following command: sudo apt-get remove dmraid
  • When asked (you’ll know when) press ‘y’ to continue
  • Run the install script from the Desktop
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