#!/bin/bash

if [ -f girlproblems.txt ]
then
  FEELINGS=”bad”
  PROBLEMS=`cat myproblems.txt | wc -l`
  if [ $PROBLEMS == "99" ]
  then
    BITCHES=`cat myproblems.txt | grep bitch | wc -l`
    if [ $BITCHES == "0" ]
      then
      echo “a bitch ain’t one!”
    fi
  fi
fi

Too many glasses of scotch will do that to you.

-i means ignore case
-r means recursive

Simple stuff, but useful nonetheless.

For those of you using slackware and want to check it out, you can download the latest 9.20b release from my Opera Slackware packages page.

[1] black
[1] then
[2] white are
[3] all I see
[5] in my infancy
[8] red and yellow then came to be
[5] reaching out to me
[3] lets me see
[2] there is
[1] so
[1] much
[2] more and
[3] beckons me
[5] to look through to these
[8] infinite possibilities
[13] as below so above and beyond I imagine
[8] drawn outside the lines of reason
[5] push the envelope
[3] watch it bend

For those that don’t know (read: aren’t a maths genius and/or haven’t read The DaVinci Code) Fibonacci numbers follow a recurrence relation that, after two starting values, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The sequence starts as follows:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610 …

In the case of “Lateralus”, the sequence steps back and forth through the above sequence; The number of syllables progress to the sixth step, then back down to the first step; up to the seventh step, and then back to the fourth step. For those that care, the formula is as follows:

Food for thought. Now back to more meaningful tasks…

Microsoft has argued in the past that Linux infringes on their IP, but when called upon for specifics has failed to name the patents in question.

Ballmer, in an obvious threat towards open source users, has told c|net that “open source is not free, and open source will have to respect the intellectual-property rights of others, just as any other competitor will”.

For those that aren’t fluent in the language of Bullshit, that is loosely translated as “play by our rules, or else”.

One interesting quote in the interview, however, is a possible admission that Windows is in fact more expensive than Linux. After a huge campaign against Linux specifically aimed at proving that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than it’s open source alternative, Ballmer has this little cherry:

“We are higher-priced, but we bring greater value.”

Higher priced you say? What happened to all of that “Linux is more expensive that Windows” rhetoric?

Linux users respoded to Ballmer’s accusations with the following message:

You can keep your higher prices and intellectual property. We are going to play on our own, and you’re not invited.

The beauty of this is that when a client inevitably changes their mind regarding an alteration to a design/feature, all of my original work is not lost, and I can easily refer them back to previous revision for comparison.

Below is a simple PHP snippet I use to redirect the user to the latest version of the project. This saves them having to know what number the revisions is up to, and can merely navigate to http://mybusiness.com/clientname and be taken to the most recent trunk.

<?php
$host  = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$uri  = rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), ‘/\’);
$revision = ‘1/’;
header("Location: http://$host$uri/$revision");
exit;
?>

Save this as index.php in your top level directory, and simply change the variable $revision to reflect the current version.

Is Bill trying to tell us something?

Notice that Linux is at version 9,0,31,0, while both Windows and OSX are stuck at 9,0,28,0. Sure, I may be splitting hairs here, but after lagging (pun intended - ALSA anyone?) at least 1.5 versions behind for the last few years, it is good to be the front-runner for a change.

Get the latest version of Adobe Flash Player for Linux here

opera-9.20b_20070323.5-i386-1_hno.tgz
opera-9.01_20060629.6-i486-1hno.tgz

Current stable release

opera-9.10_20061214.5-i386-1_hno.tgz
opera-9.0-i486-1hno.tgz

About the above packages

The opera desktop team have been releasing weekly builds of the upcoming recently released version 9.0.

I have been creating opera slackware packages for each one of these releases for my own personal use, and considering the fact that 9.0-final has been released, I thought that might as well share the love and upload my packages for my fellow slackers to use.

The current stable release is available for download, but I will also provide a package of the latest beta/nightly/weekly release. My own personal experience is that the beta builds are more often than not stable enough to use in a production environment, although if in doubt, download the latest stable version.

Note: These packages use shared qt libraries, meaning that you will at the very least require a basic KDE installation. As Slackware comes default with KDE installed, this should not be a problem, and I believe that if you are clever enough to engineer a slackware installation without kdelibs installed, I think you should be smart enough to create your own opera package anyway. If there is enough interest, however, I might provide static-qt opera slackware packages if requested.

This will recursively search your directory tree (starting at dir ‘dot’) and chmod 755 all directories only.

Similarly, the following will chmod all files only (and ignore the directories):

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;