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Current Mood: good

Simon is home.

It's raining again then. Nothing like it was earlier, shades of 2006 there. The drain outside is flooded though not to the same extent as three years ago.

Eaten a lot. We went out for a drink and a meal straight after work. Last day of school term so was a reason to celebrate. Not that my work load changes in the slightest but still. Went to Cactus Jacks, had jd glazed ribs followed by a 120z sirloin with bbq sauce. Absolutely fantastic. Delicious and cooked perfectly. Just a little large amounts.

Bought my mum a present today. Might get her some flowers to go with it tomorrow, see what they've got.

Right then. Bimble about before ncis. S'all good

http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=2009-07-17

Okay, here's what I want to have happen:

I want a link button to change color depending on web address. For example, on http://2cents4change.povertyprogram.com/news.php , I want the "News" button to be a different color than the rest. The CSS is already there. Usually, I set a variable on the page as I'm creating the page and then check for that variable. However, I didn't set those variables this time and would like to avoid editing every file on this webpage. So, I'm thinking of using the address or filename as the variable to check.

I've tried:

<php if($filename=="http://2cents4change.povertyprogram.com/news.php")
echo " class=\"rightcurrent\"";
else
echo " class=\"cents right\"";
?>

<php if($filename=="news.php")
echo " class=\"rightcurrent\"";
else
echo " class=\"cents right\"";
?>

<php if($url=="http://2cents4change.povertyprogram.com/news.php")
echo " class=\"rightcurrent\"";
else
echo " class=\"cents right\"";
?>

Any suggestions?

Current Mood: confused

http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/X6sUDjEATK8/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/17/more-things-change/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic//more-things-change/

No shit...

http://www.php.net/index.php#id2009-07-16-1

The migration from CVS to Subversion is complete. The web interface is at svn.php.net. You can read about it at php.net/svn.php, wiki.php.net/vcs/svnfaq. The URL to feed to your svn client is http://svn.php.net/repository. There is also a github mirror. Please use that instead of trying to do a full git clone from the svn repository. See the instructions at wiki.php.net/vcs/svnfaq#git Many thanks to Gwynne who did the bulk of the work and also all the other folks who pitched in. It was a major effort to move 14 years of CVS history to another RCS.

Anyone happen to have a copy of PHP 5.3.0's gmp.dll built with VC6 thread safe?

I just happen to notice that one dll is missing from the VC6 pack (both thread versions) and currently we do have some machines with the Apache.org version of Apache HTTPD. Sadly GMP is used in an app, with no other path for something else to replace it.

Who has a grievance about today's weather? Line up here to complain. Here's your number.

Let's start with you. Yes, you in the back with the saturated clothes and the sour expression.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: nowt

Hi livejournal_uk, hope I won't spoil this community with an another newbie 'I am moving to London' post.

( My questions are under the cut )

Watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I probably shouldn't bother with the back story, as if you're a fan you will have read the book already. But, set against the backdrop of Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, it follows on from the partial victory against the Death Eaters in The Order of the Phoenix, albeit with the inevitable preparation for the final battle, spanning between this and the next book/film. And so the story unfolds. I went into the film with low expectations, after reading some mixed reviews. Maybe it was good that I did as I thoroughly enjoyed the film, despite being a lengthy 153 minutes. There's something quite eerie about watching the cast grow up from film-to-film, and that in itself lends a special quality to the Harry Potter series. Also their acting talent has grown substantially from being perhaps inevitably so-so child actors in the first films to being rather good in the latest, although Emma Watson still annoys the heck out of me. The film is pretty much a rollercoaster ride from start to finish, and not for a second did I find myself bored or looking at my watch (if I had a watch). The effects are great, as they should be, with a good but non-intrusive score. If I had any criticisms it would be in a couple of areas in terms of editing and pace. One particular edit was so abrupt I wondered if the projectionist had changed the reels too abruptly, if projectionists even do this any more, which I doubt. I'm sure I don't need to define who this is recommended for. You know who you are! 5/5 (Excellent)

In other news...

Off to the Bourne Show tomorrow afternoon. Mum has volunteered to work on a stall at some point. It takes place on the Bourne recreation ground, where I used to play frequently as a kid.

We'll also pop in and see Nan, who was much the worse for wear the last time we very briefly saw her. Hopefully she will be better this time.

Then it will be a belated birthday celebration for Mum, probably at Pizza Express.

Sunday is the Elvetham Heath Car Show, which Mum and Dad will probably pop over for late morning. No idea if it will be any good, but you can't expect much from something like this.

I'd like to buy a bike rack, so we can take the bikes over to Alice Holt. I haven't ridden there in a good year or more. Not sure if Lu will be up for it.

Not sure if we'll have any time to visit a National Trust place.

Tags: film reviews
Current Mood: good

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i have a HP dv6000 laptop (vista) and here lately it runs really hard.  i can't tell if i hear the fan or the hard drive or what...but it makes a louder noise...like it revs up...and then it will just shut itself completely off.  but will fire back up after about 10 minutes of "cooling" down.  i was thinking it was the fan not keeping it cool enough but the fan seems to run ok.  i have monitored my CPU usage and it jumps from 80 - 30 - 5 - back up to 44 percent all with in 5 minutes and with me not doing anything but having IE open.  normally it always shuts off when i run my virus scan...it's like it's too much for it to run and the revving revs up more and it just shuts off.  tonight it ran it all the way through and found no problems.  i've been shutting it down and leaving it off for longer periods.  any ideas???  thanks in advance.

I am on Windows Vista, but this also happened with XP. I use an Acer computer though this happened with my previous one, too.
Whenever my computer's "busier" or there's an error of any kind, my sound doesn't play. I get a message from WMP saying the file isn't playable, and the little audio icon vanished from the corner of the screen -- though the Realktek Audio Manager one is still there and usable. How do I switch the audio back on? Usually I reboot the computer, but I'd like to know if there's any alternative.
Thank you!

EDIT: When this happens it's as if the application has the same behaviour as other apps when Windows runs out of memory, but I have no clue where to look to fix this.

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Current Mood: humbled

As I said earlier, my fiance has reinstalled XP, but his drivers are either not there or not updated. Graphics drivers are fine, because we knew what to do after I got help from here about them, but his audio, processing ones etc. aren't there and are affecting his computer.

He's spent the last few days scouring the computer, downloading programmes to try and help, and zilch. The ones that say they'll do it want you to pay after they scan it, which if there's no free way to do it, we will do, but rightfully he's worried about which programmes are legit and which are fake.

He doesn't want to give his credit card details to a fake company, which is fair enough!

We were wondering if you could help us find out where to get the drivers from because he can't work on his computer properly until he does, and he's spent so long looking on his own.

When he downloaded one of the driver guides that say they'll install them for you after a scan [but want you to pay], he took a screenshot of what needs updating:

Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2

He also wants to know what other information you need to find out what's missing on his computer, I suggested dxdiag but he doesn't know what info is needed from there, so if this isn't enough information he can get exta screenshots that are needed.

His computer is XP Professional 64 Bit and experience wise we're beginners, if you need any more information we can get it for you and if there is no free way to get the drivers we don't mind paying for a programme to get them for us as long as it's legit.

Thank you so much in advance because we really, really appreciate it.

We have a house :o)

It's ever so nice, and has a lot of stuff in it, and the mechanism by which it acquired that stuff has left me with insufficient energy to write any more. It's been a long, busy, tiring day...

But very happy :D

Just wanted to let everyone know, that a new version of MemcacheD has been released. We will be rolling this out to the memcache nodes during the week of July 20th to 24th. This should have very little impact on the stability of the website; however users may see a slight increase in load times as the cache is re-populated with entries.

The software has been tested and verified to be working just fine with the application; so we perceive this to be a very minimal risk in regards to updating, and the stability of the website.

Thanks...

Tags: memcache
Current Location: falling down the stairs
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: NOFX - San Francisco Fat

Here's Hosea, a book of the Bible, by Mark Russell dreadful_blog and sample cartoon. This is one of those cases where I'm going to spend hours redrawing it three million times to try and get the energy of the rough that I did in 3 seconds. I think the reduction of content to cartoon is perfect - and the text and illo work in nice compliment. Just the illo that's going to be a pain in the ass. I'd have been fine with it if I didn't like the rough so much.


And the final - which doesn't quite work...


28. Hosea
Hosea was a prophet whose wife was always cheating on him. He’d be preaching in the town square, but his words were lost on the crowd because the whole time people would be snickering behind his back because they knew that his wife was off getting boned by some other guy. When he got home from preaching to find an empty house, Hosea would wander the streets, track down his wayward wife, and drag her back home, much to the amusement of the townspeople. Sometimes she’d just disappear with a new lover, often for months at a time, but then she’d invariably come crawling back to Hosea. And like a chump, he always took her back. One time, the guy she ran off with decided to enslave her and Hosea ended up having to pay her lover in order to get his cheating wife back.

People couldn’t believe that Hosea still wanted to have her around after all the times she’d cheated on him. One day, Hosea was out in the town square, preaching as always, when someone finally worked up the nerve to ask him why he didn’t simply throw his wife out on her ass. Hosea shrugged and replied by saying that his relationship with his wife was like God’s relationship with us. We are always cheating on God, leaving him for some shiny new idea or temporary pleasure, but for some reason, he’s always willing to swallow his pride and take us back.

And the people finally understood what he’d been preaching about all that time.

Current Music: Kiss Me Like You Mean It - The Magnetic Fields

So, Operation Wallacea.

Anybody here been? Anybody dealt with them in some other way? I want to go during next year's summer holidays. I am nearly ready to give them all my money (if they will take me!).

I have asked them a few questions and so far they have been very nice and helpful and informative and quick to answer which I take as a good sign.

I really wanted to do something with Frontier.ac.uk but when I spoke to them on the phone about it, both times they were quite rude, uninformed and just kept changing the subject back to how much I would have to pay and when and moneymoneymoney. Sooo that has put me right off. Reading around I found a few people had similar problems with them.

OPWall seem a lot nicer so far but I just want to make sure that I won't end up in the middle of nowhere with a company that doesn't give a crap once they've got my student loan the cash!

Current Mood: bored