Sony portable reader system – almost on sale: “
Sony has more information and pricing for their E-ink reader on SonyStyle – it’s going to cost $349 and ‘should’ ship spring of 2006. [via] /USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Print?ProductSKU=PRS500”>info sheet.
If you want to read ebooks now on a Sony reader, you can pick up the discontinued Japanese version (called the Librie), change the firmware and make your own DRM-free ebooks today! Check our past how tos and articles – Link.
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Make your own sites, with Google pages…: “
Google just launched a new ‘build your own website’ service – Google pages. You get 100mb and it seems like unlimited bandwidth, I made a quick test here – so far no Google adsense on the pages. It’s pretty easy to use, and for the Makers out there that want something simple to document a project or share information, it’s yet another web service to consider. To this day there are tons of projects on Geocities, so – maybe this will be useful for folks. [via] Link to Google pages.
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I’ve had a Memorex 512MB thumb drive for about a year now.
It replaced some other brand at the time because I left it in my jeans and took a turn in the Washing machine. This morning, I pulled this Memorex drive out of the DRYER FOR THE 9th TIME! I can’t believe it. Not only am I an idiot for putting it through the wash twice a month, but it still works. Amazing.
Digital501 has a great post about keeping a hot Mac hard drive with exsisting and included tools. Great read…
This was the end to a frustrating several hours a couple months ago. The mysql module wouldn’t install via Ruby Gems. I kept getting:
[root@zeus dynamic]# gem install mysql -with-mysql-config
Attempting local installation of 'mysql'
Local gem file not found: mysql*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'mysql'
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in th-mysql-config/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.
ruby extconf.rb install mysql -with-mysql-config\nchecking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lsocket... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lnsl... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
Results logged to /tmp/fgci_ipc/dynamic/th-mysql-config/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out
So I got the Ruby mysql sources and ran:
[root@zeus dynamic]# cd /root/downloads/mysql-ruby-2.7
[root@zeus mysql-ruby-2.7]# ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-config
checking for mysql_ssl_set()... yes
checking for mysql.h... yes
creating Makefile
[root@zeus mysql-ruby-2.7]# make
gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -DHAVE_MYSQL_SSL_SET -DHAVE_MYSQL_H -I/usr/include/mysql -g -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -c mysql.c
gcc -shared -L'/usr/local/lib' -Wl,-R'/usr/local/lib' -o mysql.so mysql.o -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc
[root@zeus mysql-ruby-2.7]# make install
install -c -p -m 0755 mysql.so /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux
That’s it.
We’ll assume apache2 is installed via rpm/yum.
$yum install httpd-devel
$wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-2.4.2.tar.gz
$tar -xzvf mod_fastcgi-2.4.2.tar.gz
$cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.2
$cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile
edit Makefile and change
top_dir = /usr/local/apache2
to
top_dir = /usr/lib/httpd
Then it’s:
$make
$make install
Add to your httpd.conf (it’s in /etc/httpd/conf):
LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so
Restart apache. That’s it!
After getting the “checking for mysql_query()” errors, this worked for me on 10.4.3
sudo gcc_select 3.3
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include/ --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib/ --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config