I have been at a loss for words when it comes to explaining how non-religion is a religion itself, and Kurth may have taken care of it...

Either way, this is a great article a teacher recommended I read:

Women’s Service in the Church: The Biblical Basis

I'm not saying I agree with it 100%, but it does give plenty to think about...

I was writing an application for work using the ActiveState Komodo IDE that parses e-mails in preparation for inserting them into a database. I knew that no matter how I connected to the database, I would need to do proper quoting so there wouldn't be any "surprises" with the data I inserted.

I ended up going with using a module that is part of Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord (many of its functions automatically do the quoting). When I installed that, MySQL worked fine out of the box. For PostgreSQL I also had to also install postgres-pr.

I leveraged gem to load both. I am using the precompiled version of Ruby you can get by following the download links on their web site...and other MySQL/PostgreSQL options were complicated by their complile environment being different than mine...so anything that required a compilation was pretty much out of the picture.

Either way, without going into the specific items I tried that failed, you can read above what I did that succeeded :-)

It actually went pretty well, but I did hit a wall when I went to start Apache. System Admin uses Fedora Core 4, and from what I can tell, it automatically runs with SELinux. Either way, I kept getting this error starting Apache:

Most hits I found searching on the web suggested turning off SELinux via "setenforce 0" which, I guess (based on the man page) turns SELinux into "permissive" mode.

This seemed like a bit of overkill, and searching I found this instead:

chcon /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp4.so -t shlib_t

That did the trick...

Either way, frequently I'm bouncing between cases, using only the case number. The main Call Tracking page has a form with a box to enter this, but it's a bit of a pain to have to keep that page open, and to switch back to it. Then it hit me, Opera probably would allow me to add it as a search dialog on my personal bar. Although it's a bit risky (because Opera doesn't support the changes, and upgrades may whack it), it sure was possible :-)

Opera 8 uses a search.ini file to define searches (if you have localized settings it'll be C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\search.ini). You have to choices...you can edit it by hand:

http://www.schrode.net/opera/search/search_ini.html

Or you can use the free Opera Search.ini Editor (which is what I did to make sure I didn't hose up the file).

After that, right-click on your personal bar and select your search engine (please note, if you don't choose a keyword, you will not be able to select it in that list). You can see how I slected it in the image above.

(One more note, replace the value in the GET query string you would normally see in your address bar with %s...that is all I did to get our simple Call Tracking URL to work. E.g. "http://.../search.cgi?target=%s" versus "http://.../search.cgi?target=87711".)

Either way, after installing "VMWare Tools" on the UNIX system, I couldn't get X Windows to load...it said it couldn't start because of a mouse problem (couldn't find /dev/mouse).

Thanks to this link, I was able to solve it:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=16918&tstart=60

Basically, the setting in /etc/XF86Config should have been /dev/input/mice instead of /dev/mouse. It seems to me the installation may have stopped X from looking at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which had the right setting.

Why use VMware Tools? From the VMware Workstation Users Manual:

("They" being Christians.)

When I read that book, I found that statement ironically true, although out of context it may not make sense. Earlier in the same paragraph he makes a different point:

Could that be summarized as saying, "Christianity only makes sense in context"?

(You can read it fully in the second-to-last paragraph in the first chapter of Mere Christianity.)

I haven't thought it or said it as concisely, but I couldn't agree more with the second sentence...

My previous laptop, regardless of whether I was actually using the Super DVD, started misbehaving after I installed the software that came with the Super DVD. Sometimes I literally couldn't kill applications, and I think other applications would never fully start (that is, show up in the process table, but never become visible). I wasn't sure, but I believe it only started acting weird after the first time I went into and came out of hibernation (so things were clean if I used the computer from a fresh start or restart).

Getting back to yesterday, when I looked at the task manager's list of processes, appservices.exe was hogging all the CPU. Killing it fixed the problem. But, what is the "real" solution?

I'm hoping the Iomega Application Services patch will solve it as it appeared to remedy the other issue I mention above. I'm creating this "nerd note" hoping that a search engine in the future might find it, saving some other victim of wayward application services from having to poke around as much as I did. (Also, when I went to look for the link on Iomega's support site yesterday, they don't seem to make it easy to locate. Luckily I had save the link from my last bad experience.)

Lest it sound otherwise, the Super DVD is great. This XP service is an add-on required by some of the Iomega software (e.g. Hotburn Pro).

• Evidentiary
• Absolute
• Pertinent

Without going into it too much, the only truth that matters when sharing is the pertinent type -- otherwise, why share it?

(I think this holds true for non-theological truth too...)