A Cajun-Asian View

Found these on a forum:

First, Zack Kim using hammers-on on two electric guitars:

Next is Jean Baudin playing the theme on on an 11-string bass:

The above two are great, but my personal favorite is Sebastien Gomez playing the Mario theme in classical guitar style:

That's the one I want to learn how to play!

This has to be the most bizarre hockey brawl I've seen:

According to the description on the Youtube page for the video:

December 3, 2006 started out with a game between the Nikko Kobe Ice Bucks and Changchun Fuao as part of Asia League Ice Hockey...

Via stick on the AnimeNFO forums.

Joost isn't exactly a new concept, but it looks like somebody is at least trying to do over the Internet what Tivo simulates now for TV and the older VCR used to do; allow you to watch what you want, when you want to, but this time, it's on-demand instead of having to wait till the show airs on T.V.

Looks like they only have Beta Client for Windows XP and the Intel Mac O.S. X, but PPC Mac O.S. and Linux clients are in the works.

It's something to keep an eye on, that's for sure.

While I'm thinking about it, this is something that I would think LUS should look into while building up the services they will supply over fiber.

I have to look into Xdebug to use on our development servers. This article has some information and images showing off how this can be used. Hopefully, there's a Gnome version of KCachegrind (though it really wouldn't matter as I should be able to run it under Gnome anyways).

(Got this via the Baton Rouge Linux User Group mail list)

I had installed PostgreSQL, Apache, and PHP on my laptop (running Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy) to aid in development. But when I was attempting to load a copy of the production database into PostgreSQL, it kept giving me errors on setting up the functions. Turns out that PostgreSQL (which I installed with the Ubuntu GUI package system, Synaptic) was expecting a file at /usr/lib/pgsql/plpgsql.so, but the real file was at /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/lib/plpgsql.so. In fact, checking the file system, there was no directory called pgsql in /usr/lib. Apparently, there's some kind of bug in the Debian packager.

The quickest fix I determined was to run the following to create a softlink:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/lib /usr/lib/pgsql

Now those functions setup without any errors.

The next version of Ubuntu is finally out! Now to download it and check it out on a virtual machine. Later on, I'll attempt to do the upgrade process on the install that's on my main desktop then my laptop.

It also seems the Ubuntu website is getting hit by some pretty serious traffic, so it seems to be switching between a holding page that lists the mirrors that you can download the ISOs from and the original site.

Found this little contest. I guess I'm stupid, as I'm stuck on page two...

Found out about World of Padman from Digg, a total conversion of Quake 3. Quite an odd first person shooter, but it does have a native Linux installer and does work on my gaming system running Ubuntu. I have the details up on full and pretty much maintain 90 FPS.

Screen shot from World of Padman

The Drobo seems to be a very interesting little storage device. Too bad it only currently connects via USB, as it would make a very interesting NAS box for a home user with multiple systems or a small office (Though I'm sure that's in the works...). Would definitely would be an interesting option for me in the future, as I have a habit of accumulating hard disks over time.