Been working with pidgin w/msn-pecan on ubuntu 10.04.  New problem, pecan doesn’t crash pidgin anymore, however I am logged out after I’ve been away from my computer a little bit.  As in, when the screen saver kicks in, pecan logs me out or can’t maintain a connection.

Doesn’t seem to happen in windows 7.

If I can live with this issue,  and so far I have… it’s kind of a nice flaw, as this allows me to be not distracted, while at work.

Verdict thus far: good on windows.  Horrible on ubuntu.

My low key technique:

1. place a printf(“made it here: %s, %s+ %s\n”, __METHOD__, __LINE__, __FILE__); everywhere…
2. put “DIE(‘something’);” to figure out the exact line that fails.  If dies, good.  move it further down.  If it segfaults, move the die statement up.  Until you’ve found the exact line that fails.
3. Figure out why it’s segfaulting…  uh… good luck with that.  Google, and look at the changelog in PHP to see if it’s been fixed.

An easier option, if I were the one controlling the box — Update to the latest PHP.

project ideas:

1.) Current IP notifier – send to my webserver, what my home server IP is. (Dynamic). I could use a dynamic dns service… this maybe interesting to learn how to do this, if I have my own VPS… have the home-server, notify the web-server to update the DNS setting. So I would have something like: homelan.lloydleung.com or whatever.

2.) wake on lan commands.
3.) vpn to the network instead… with a combo on 1. This way, everything is encrypted…

1. goto http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
2. download puttyGen
3. run it, with ssh-2 RSA
4. click generate
5. leave key passphrase blank.
6. yeah save both the private and public keys for future use.
7. at the top of the app, there’s a “OpenSSH authorized_keys” text window, copy and paste the information into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys as one line.  (You’ll need to shell into the box first).

Start putty

1. enter the ip/host address
2. enter a session name.
3. in the menu tree goto: connection->data enter your auto-login name
4. in the menu tree goto: connection->ssh->auth click browse and select the private key you saved from the above section.
5. in the menu tree goto: session click save
6. test, by clicking open.

Enjoy.

“Hree is an exmlape”

The quick explanation is that the other servers on the list, are being hammered by millions of other window machines.

Make sure your your <form> tag is within the same <td> cell element.  Otherwise it’s not XML compliant.

You can have the form outside the <table> — but not between it, and a <td> element.

However, here’s a super easy way to to monitor RSS feeds.   Thunderbird!!! Yes, that’s old too, I know.  If you don’t have News & Blogs, you’ll have to add an account first.  Now you have an easy way to just drag new feeds over.

1. Find an rss feed, look on the side of this side, and you’ll see an RSS feed.
2. Drag it to your News & Blogs section in thunderbird.

Now I don’t need to open up all my those sites to figure out what if there’s something new. RSS feeds will automatically find out for me, and notify me whenever something is new.Suggestions for RSS use:

1. Monitor a friend’s del.cio.us bookmarks. “Hi SAM! I’m watching you!”
2. Monitor someone’s blog.
3. okay, here’s a real useful one. Monitor new file releases on sourceforge.
4. Forums and Announcements

That’s how I’m using RSS… any other suggestions to use RSS?