So this drive has been ticking loudly since the day i got it, and now it is officially dead..

Anyhow, i had the data off this one out already, it is another drive that i am concerned

And for my refrerance with that other hard drive, the PCB on this one has chips that read the following

SMOOTH
L7251 3.1
AAABG V5
TWN 8U 044
S7 EBK

——————

M
88I9146-TFJ2
P3M4600.3
1040 B2P
TW

————–

SAMSUNG 046
K4H511638 G-LCCC
H5116 C2J162GEN

————–

THE PCB STICKER READS

2061-771698-802 08P XW BEA8 GZF55 0002230 1232

——————–

The sticker on the actual hard drive reads

S.N: WMAZA3145151
MDL: WD20EARS-00MVWB0
WWN:50014EE6561655A6
DATE: 14-DEC-2010
DCM: HBNNHTJMH
DCX: 4M05V3WW5

LBA: 3907029168
5VDC: 0.70A
12VDC: 0.55A
R/N: 771698

So i am leaving the above information since it may save some technician doing a PCB replacement some time, and it will surely spare me the need to look for the file i wrote this information in when i get to my other busted hard drive

I always use MOD-REWRITE in my development, but i never put it in a htaccess file, an htaccess file will requiere a call to the OS with every page or file view to check if the file has changed or not, apache will only stop making such requests if you turn htaccess off.

You can turn it off with the statement

AllowOverride None

in your config file, but now how do we enable rewrite ?

Sinple, put the rewrite statement in the config file, here is a config file that does rewrite and has the AllowOverride set to none.

In this sample file, AllowOverride is set to null, Apache is instructed not to maintain a log file (not recommended for 90% of websites, since log files help you debug and analyze if an accident happens), makes robots.txt a PHP script file,

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
ServerAlias search.smartdomaingenerator.com
ServerAlias subd.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/vhosts/example.com/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/vhosts/example.com/>
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

#i like to send robots.txt dynamically via PHP so that i can control it from web interface
<Files robots.txt>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule .(php|gif|jpg|png|ico|swf|flv|avi|mpg|jpeg|ram|css)$ – [L]
RewriteRule ^style.css$ – [L]
RewriteRule ^beditor(.*) – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory “/usr/lib/cgi-bin”>
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

# ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
ErrorLog /dev/null
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

#CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
CustomLog /dev/null combined
ServerSignature Off

Alias /doc/ “/usr/share/doc/”
<Directory “/usr/share/doc/”>
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

this is a link i will need in a bit (Red Deer or the one on StatsI), they both need update in a bit, this is a reminder

After hours of revising my code to find the error, i finally found the least expected error, bzcompress fails often ! and that is the error

bzcompress under PHP 5.x failed with error code -3, unfortunately, there is no documentation on what that may be, or at least i can not find it.

To fix my application, i tested the data in the resulting variable with the is_numeric function, and if that had the value of TRUE, i used a flag with the data to denote compression.

I will update this post as soon as i have more information on this matter

First of all, i am not happy with my Linux Desktop firefox or with my Windows Firefox, they are lacking on the multi-threading, and on a web all about Javascript, One tab hangs, my whole browser hangs, so firefox is lagging behind chrome and IE in this regard, otherwise, i can say that firefox is probably the best browser out there. Get your shit together firefox, we all have Dual and Quad cores, and we want our browser to utilize them.

Having Plugin container fire up multiple instances will also be nice for multi threading… And just to let you know, my I7 can do 8 threads with 4 cores and 2 hyperthreads per core.

Anyway, back to our subject, Firefox is coming out for tablets and mobile phones with 2 features that will certainly put it in the list of the 3 mobile players !

The first feature is being able to take photos from the phone directly on to the browser so that we can upload photos direct, firefox calls this Camera UI .

The other feature that is probably good for normal (not power) users is the site blacklist where the browser will look up any visited website against a blacklist maintained by mozilla and there affiliates, this is probably going to be an important feature for the upcoming firefox for android.