http://idlinguser.com Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:58:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gentoo is a great distro and, despite what many think and say, it’s easy to maintain if you have the right tools. And, well etc-update just isn’t quite the right tool for maintaining your config files. Its too clunky, error prone and not very forgiving at all. ... http://idlinguser.com/gnulinux-stuff/attn-gentoo-users-forget-etc-update-use-dispatch-conf/ I’ve been back and forth between tabs and spaces for code indentation in recent years. My exposure to Python lead me down the path of spaces, while in the past I had stuck to tabs in my PHP, Perl & Java. When its my own code it’s fine to ... http://idlinguser.com/gnulinux-stuff/expand-your-tabs/ I’ve been running MySQL 4.1 on Gentoo on my dev machines for a little while now without any major hangups. A few people have asked me how to get it emerged because they got hungup by the masks in Gentoo whic prevent them from emerging 4.1 and they gave ... http://idlinguser.com/gnulinux-stuff/mysql-41-on-gentoo/ Yes, that dirty word. MS SQL Server. Never thought you’d hear that one here did you? Its been about 6 years since I’d last touched the beast, and of course I’m loving every minute of it. I was handed a DB to work on that I should have ... http://idlinguser.com/technology/ms-sql-server-change-object-owner-script/ Our twins were born last month on Valentine’s Day, Zoë at 5lbs. 2oz. and Theodore at 6lbs. 9oz. Well, its more than a month later, and I’m blogging about it between feedings. Not only that but I’ve converted from Movable Type to WordPress. Oh, what fun that ... http://idlinguser.com/technology/new-lives-new-blog/ I had a nasty problem w/ libtool failing because it was looking for the old 3.3.4 gcc version of my libstd++.la instead of 3.3.5. After many hours of mucking around with things trying to find a fix or fix it myself, I finally found this thread which answered my ... http://idlinguser.com/open-source/gentoo-gcc-libtool/ I’m a Zend Ceritifed Engineer. My paper Zend Certified Engineer certificate arrived in the mail today. I actually took the test back on July 1st during the beta and got word of my passing by mail a few months later. Now Zend is providing the means to authenticate ... http://idlinguser.com/coding/im-a-zend-certified-engineer/ I think it is appropriate to resurrect this infamous photoshopped picture today as last night Charlie officially made his first kill. For a week or so we’ve been tormented by a mouse stealing our food and driving Charlie nuts by leaving scent trails around the apartment. His chase ... http://idlinguser.com/random/charlies-first-kill/ Comment spammers suck. http://idlinguser.com/random/comments-are-off/ So, the ultrasound was great. It took a little while longer than we expected because those little ones were being slightly camera shy when it came to some important shots. I’ll take care of that as soon as they’re delivered! It was really cool to see them rolling ... http://idlinguser.com/twins/sex-yes-please/