Here we go:
- Best Picture: A curious case of Benjamin Button Slumdog Millionaire (a bit off)
- Bes Actor: Mickey Rourke Sean Penn (Sean was really good in Milk but can’t compare to Mickey. Anyway …)
- Bes Actress: Kate Winslet (spot on
)
- Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (of course)
- Bes Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei Penelope Cruz (the hardest award to guess)
- Bes Director: Danny Boyle (see the comment down there
)
If Slumdog Millionaire gets Best Picture (I highly doubt it), then Best Director would go to David Fincher. (Arrggh)
Updated.
You may have this error when require ‘xml/mapping’ in your ruby script:
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- xml/mapping (LoadError)
Solution: go to the gem directory of XML-Mapping (mine is /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-mapping-0.8.1/lib/) and chmod all files in this directory to 644.
Who is to point finger at here ? Rubygem or XML-Mapping authors ?
This error eccors if you use screen et cetera and don’t have a terminfo file for urxvt in /usr/share/terminfo/r/, especially if you are ssh’ing into another box. You just need to create a terminfo file named rxvt-unicode in this directory.
More info about terminfo and how to compile it from a source file
Sometimes (even with new machines) there are problems at the client’s installation, for example:
Error 27848: Deterministic Network Enhancer installation requires a reboot first, to free locked resources.
After that the installation process is rewinded back and canceled. To fix it, open the command prompt as administrator (Right click on cmd then choose Run as Administrator). Type those commands and press Enter:
cd %systemroot%system32
regsvr32 /u dneinobj.dll
If Vista complains about regsrv32, then maybe the program is not on the system path. You must use absolute path:
C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32 /u C:\Windows\system32\dneinobj.dll
For error 2738
Internal Error 2738
follow the same procedure as above, just replace the command regsvr32 /u dneinobj.dll with
C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32 C:\Windows\system32\vbscript.dll
Update: regsrv32 should be regsvr32, my mistake 
Notebookreview has a new review for Macbook Pro latest model (late 2008). Here is the spec:
- Mac OS X v10.5.5 Leopard and Windows XP SP3 (Boot Camp)
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz (3MB L2 cache, 1066MHz frontside bus)
- 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
- 250GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive
- 15.4″ glossy widescreen LED backlit display (1440 x 900)
- Integrated Nvidia 9400 graphics (256MB of shared memory) and Discrete Nvidia 9600M GT (256MB of shared memory)
- iSight webcam
- AirPort Extreme WiFi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n)
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
- Mini Display port, 2 x USB 2.0 port (480Mbps), Audio out, mic, ExpressCard, FireWire 800
- Dimensions : 0.95 x 14.35 x 9.82 inches (H x W x D)
- Weight: 5.5 lbs
- Integrated 50-watt-hour lithium-polymer batter
- 85W MagSafe power adapter with cable management system (6.5oz)
- Price: $1,999 ($1,899 with education discount)
Compare to my HP 6910p:
- Windows XP Prof. (i run Linux anyway, this doesn’t matter)
- Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 1.8GHz (2MB L2 cache, 800MHz frontside bus): This is the biggest difference, but see the price i paid under there
- 2GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM
- 80GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive
- 14.1″ matte widescreen LED display (1440 x 900)
- Discrete ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 with 128MB VRAM (lame i know, but it does it’s job and i don’t play games)
- Finger scanner
- Intel 4965 WiFi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g)
- Bluetooth 2
- VGA and S-video out, 3 x USB 2.0 ports, audio out, mic, SD reader, FireWire 800
- Weight: 5.0 lbs
- 6-cell (55 WHr) Lithium-Ion battery
- Ability to dock
- Price paid total: 510 Euro (eBay, but it’s brand new)
Or a better competitor Lenovo Thinkpad T500:
- Windows Vista Home Basic
- Intel Core 2 Duo P860
- 2GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM
- 80GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive
- 15.4″ WSXGA+ CCFL Backlight (1680 x 1050)
- Discrete ATI Mobility Radeon 3650HD with 256MB VRAM (with ability to instantly switch to integrated chip to save power)
- Finger scanner
- Intel 5100 WiFi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n)
- VGA and S-video out, 3 x USB 2.0 ports, audio out, mic, FireWire, SD-card reader
- Weight: 6.0 lbs
- 6-cell Lithium-Ion battery
- Ability to dock
- Price total: $1378
Consider that you can easily find a 10-15% discount coupon for Lenovo T series notebooks on net, what are the reasons to buy a mac except’s the OS and it’s look ? Leopard is a good OS, but does it justify the 45% price difference ? I don’t think so.
It’s annoying as hell ! Not only we need to patch to use Cisco client on 64 bit systems, recently i find out Cisco don’t support SMP (multi core) in its VPN client. It means after you load the cisco module, there’s a big chance you will run into a kernel panic: oops, the whole desktop freezes and the only thing you can do is a hard restart. Nice.
There’s a way out of this: turn off SMP aka turn one core of your CPU off before the module is loaded:
- sudo echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online (to turn the 2nd core off, replace cpu1 with cpu2 for 3rd core and so on)
- sudo echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online (turn it back on)
But why the hell do we have to use one core only ?? I mean, if we buy multi core CPU, we want to use it ! It’s ok if you only use VPN occasionally, however for folks like me who is forced to use VPN all day then this is just plain dumb. Good work Cisco, i will stick with vpnc afterall, ktnxbye !
Man, these freezes really bug me off … After setting up my laptop i realized every time i turn compiz on, the system would hang for 1-2 second then continue working. The time interval between two freezes is random. This problem happened with both closed source or open source drivers (for an ATI Mobility x2300 ).
It’s hard to google about a general problem like this, so i posted question on various forums. Luckily, i am not the only one is affected. This post explains the reason:
It seems that PAT support that is included in linux kernel 2.6.26 has some problems. If you are using a recent ATI Catalyst (fglrx) driver (at the time of this writing, the latest was 8.8) with 2.6.26 kernel with PAT support you may have problems.
Problems may include freezes every couple of seconds when playing videos or full-screen 3D apps/games.
To solve this problem you will have to disable PAT support in kernel. Fortunately there is a kernel boot parameter that does with without requiring recompilation. Just add “nopat” to kernel boot parameters and you should be OK. Debian users should not worry since PAT is disabled in the default kernel.
My /boot/grub/menu.lst:
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro nopat
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
I’ve just encountered this problem when moving to a new host: the database was ok, php was working, htaccess ok, wp-config ok but my website always showed me a numb blank face. The problem drove me crazy since every other WordPress-powered sites on the same host worked. A fresh version of WordPress with the old database helped no further. So i thought it could be a database problem and tried to re-export and -import the databse again, change the encoding of the new database, convert the password of Mysql user to the old one … every method i could think of or google out.
After two hours i turned to the webserver’s log just to find this one:
2008-09-24 23:32:51.681 [NOTICE] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:64358-0#lamnk.com] [STDERR] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or
T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /xxx/blog/wp-content/plugins/last.fm/last.fm.php on line 17
What a relief ! To think last.fm caused this problem is beyond me. Why one plugin that worked on one host suddenly doesn’t work anymore on another host when other plugins do ???
Phew … i feel much better now. After almost 2 hours toying around with Winpwn, worrying my phone ends up a brick, i finally can bypass the 1601 error when restoring the custom firmware. FYI i followed the guide on theiphoneproject and used winpwn 2.0.0.3.
If you can create the firmware but have trouble installing it, try to:
- Restore your phone to normal mode
- Turned it off (hold the sleep/wake button for about 3-5 seconds)
- Connect it to your computer then press and hold the home button immediately when the cable is plugged in
- The phone is now in restoration mode (you will have a iTunes icon and a cable on your phone’s display)
- Try to install the new firmware. If it doesn’t work follow step 6
- With the phone is still in restoration mode and connected, turn it to DFU mode
- Try to install the new firmware again. If it works, then congratulation, you will only need to wait about 10 minutes for restoring the new firmware. Otherwise goodluck on your google quest
I’ve just stumpled upon a very interesting post about men’s rules for wives. Under are just some highlights
- Breasts are for looking at and that is why we do it. Don’t try to change that.
- If you think you’re fat, you probably are. Don’t ask us.
- Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
- Crying is blackmail.
- “Yes” and “No” are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
- Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.
- If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing,” we will act like nothing’s wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
- You have enough clothes.
- You have too many shoes.
