Intro: Hey, did you hear the one about the deaf trombone player?  .  .  .   Yeah, neither has he. Listening: Well, I finally managed to break, at least temporarily, my Silversun Pickups addiction.  It required a potent cocktail of the new Killers album, the latest Luomo album, and several listens through The Shondes’ The Red Sea. Now I talked about the Killers album last week, and it’s just grown on me since.  But the surprise find of the week was this band Luomo.  Maybe it’s just me, but until I ran across a tweet on Jeph Jacques’ twitter feed about their album Convivial.  He mentioned that it’s a blend of good modern techno and vocal house, both things of which …

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Dear Lazyweb: I need a little help with a few topics for some upcoming projects, and since I don’t have a research assistant, I thought maybe a few of you brilliant people in my audience would be able to point me in the right direction1. 1) I need detailed information from a working linguist or historian about Latino-Punic script, of the variety found in Carthaginian ruins in modern-day Tunisia (and/or Libya). 2) Also on the language front, I’m looking for someone who knows a considerable amount about Old French, specifically early development of the langue d’oc and any influences on it from North Africa and Moorish Spain2. 3) This one is for all of you: I’m looking for people who …

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Hmm, day seven of being unemployed. Still no idea want I want to do, still haven’t really applied for anything, still not signed on. Right now I’m in Borders, having a coffee with Aref-Adib, plotting world domination and why Karl Marx had no place for art when he pencilled in his communist utopia. Need to pick up PR for Dummies while I’m here. And …

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Dear Lazyweb I saw recently an interesting installation at a company. This company had databases in two different locations and they established a connection using SSH tunneling. The thing that looked very interesting to me is, they setup a dedicated machine that had a MySQL instance on it. That database was mostly empty, but it had a port open o …

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David Spade will forever have a special place in my heart for what he did in the movie Tommy Boy. I’m not sure if it was his creation, but in that movie, Spade delivered a line that added one of my favorite words to the english language: My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators. I saw the movie back in high school when it was in the theater. Immediately—I mean, before we had gotten out of our seats—we were using “nerdery” to refer to our pack of nerds . It’s like there was a linguistic void waiting to be filled, one that we had somehow never noticed before, and that term came to our …

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Dear Lazyweb, any recommendations for a relaxing break over the so-called festive season? Ideally somewhere local to southwest England, to avoid excessive travel misery. Should be free of humbuggery such as piped muzak, tinsel and lights, cut-down or artificial trees, or fat men in red and white. I had contemplated taking the ferry from Plymouth …

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Some time ago, Paul Walk remarked that “Yahoo Pipes do for web development what the spreadsheet did for non-web development before it (Microsoft Excel has been described as the most widely used Integrated Development Environment)”. After seeing how Google spreadsheets could be used as part of quick online mashup at the recent Mashed Library, Paul revised this observation along the lines of “the online spreadsheet do for web development what the spreadsheet did for non-web development before it”. In An Ad Hoc Youtube Playlist Player Gadget, Via Google Spreadsheets , I showed how a Google gadget can be used as a container for arbitrary Javascript code that can be used to process the contents of one or more Google spreadsheet cells, …

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Dear Lazyweb I am thinking about buying a Wii for the familly this chrismas, but im a little unsure what games to buy, I was thinking of the following ones. Zelda Mario Carts Mario Universe Is there any other cool games out there i need to own

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No tourist, no traffic and summer weather. It’s the only nice week we get between March and January. Most years we do get a nice month in February though. Dear lazyweb, this post is too short.

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Dear Lazyweb, Is there an iPhone app out there that will aggregate my Twitter, identi.ca, and Facebook accounts? # @TGMLeto: switch to ImON… I’ve got a 10 Mbit connection that acts like a 10 Mbit connection # @TGMLeto: http://imon.net # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Apache2 + PHP5 and Fileuploads via POST > 2GB Tue, 12/02/2008 - 11:44 — shermann Oh well, I think I’m using lazyweb too often now, but as I don’t find a solution, and some of you are mostly smarter then I am, here the question: Setup an Apache2.2 webserver with PHP5 and configure /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini to allow fileuploads with post_max_size > 6G and upload_max_filesize > 4G Now, given that apache2 has the LimitRequestBody set to 0 this should give us the possibility to upload files via multipart/formdata and post method which are bigger then 2G. But, somehow we are running into PHP.NET Bug #44522 and the upload stops somehow. Yesterday I was hunting for a fix of this. I came to the …

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Dear LazyWeb… I like to know how Bugzilla’s being talked about out in the world, so I subscribe to Google’s handy news and blog alert services where you can put in keywords and they’ll send you an email every time a new blog or news article shows up containing that/those keywords. This works really well, except that you also get a bunch of crap with it. People who post to message boards with “Bugzilla” as a username. Message posts on insect websites about this huge bug someone found. Articles about modified VW Beetles that have been turned into monster trucks. Every mention in anyone’s blog about bug reports for any number of major projects that use Bugzilla for their bug …

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MP4 fast-start woes Autor Evert Pot | 02.12.2008 | Category Contributors, PHP Help, WordPress, Google, Javascript, AJAX, Graphics, PEAR, ZEND, MVC, PHP Tips, PHP Jobs, PHP News, PHP Technologies In order to play MP4 files while they are still downloading (either by for example Quicktime of Flash), in most cases you’ll need to move the so called ‘MOOV’ atom to the beginning of the file. The MOOV atom is in essence a block of data, containing an index of the rest of the file. Most authoring tools will place this data on the end of the file, because the size of the block will have to change dynamically as changes are made to the video. If the atom was right at …

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Well…I am researching into how to get windows to multi task better (i/o wise) among existing processes, i.e. process A is running and using the disk “as fast as it can” process B starts up then it thrashes between A and B as B starts up–seems unfair, doesn’t it? I mean, process A should back off for a little while till B gets going, s …

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Dear lazyweb,Can you tell me if there is a website out there where you type in a url for example for a blog, and then the website runs round to Bloglines, Feedburner, iGoogle ans so on and counts how many people subscribe to the blog’s various feeds and then reports them in a nice table or graph?At the moment I do it manually, checking my feedburne …

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Airabongco created a super awesome squidoo page collecting and organizing Twitter Apps. Here’s a sample of all the great tools you can use. Go on her squidoo page and rate her up! Also don’t forget to follow her on Twitter “ Find Tweeters like You Directories and User Search Tools Twits like Me Find out people like you Twellow A Twitter directory sorted by occupation Just Tweet It A twitter directory sorted by interest Twubble This tool will automatically find people who are compatible with your interests. However, if you follow too many people, then Twubble may recommend some people that you already follow Twittie Me Search for similar users and advertise your twitter page Twitdir Search for words in …

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lazyweb, I’m trying to learn how to use lvm, but I am extremely confused by what is happening below.  I extended a logical volume, but df doesn’t seem to see it.  Someone tell me what I’m doing wrong. grid1:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert root grid1 -wi-ao 459.20G swap_1 grid1 -wi-ao 8.01G grid1:~# df -h Filesy …

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Well look at this. The NCAA record for completions LIVES… in YPSILANTI! http://tinyurl.com/6yhct6 # www # Lazyweb: a musicography for ESPN bumpers. Like commercialbeatsandbreaks.co.uk or adtunes.com but for ESPN incidentals. # @zaren If it gets to that, I have a UMAX C600 in my garage with both Ethernet and ADB. But I haven’t powered it on in, …

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Dear Lazyweb, I need a PCI fax/modem for my office Frankenbox. This one at Newegg has at least one review that says it works but if you can confirm or recommend another — preferably something supported by an in-kernel driver — I’d appreciate it.

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Hey, lazyweb, I need your help. I’m just about done teaching a series of classes on Bash scripting for the systems admins where I work (mostly junior types). I present a one hour course every other week, focusing on the basics that they’ll be able put to use right away. Pretty soon, I’m going to start a series of similar courses about Ruby. Here’ …

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