Monthly Archive for November, 2007

No Country for old man

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Is the title of the latest Coen brothers film, and guys I can tell you this is hell of a great movie. One of the best I have seen this year for sure even of the last years. This year so far has been not too bad with:

  • Into the wild
  • American Gangster
  • Hitman

All of them not too bad movies. But the new Coen Brothers movie is a must see. After all it introduced my to Cormack McCarthy. I am reading “The Road” right now, and already he is on the way to taking my favorite top spot of writers alongside: Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and good old Noman Mailer. Soon I will introduce the Movie and Literature Review section here then we will see more of Literature reviews here.

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Dylanmania

I guess we will see a lot of this in the weeks to come. Dylanmania again You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

I’m Not There – Life of Bob Dylan

intdylanI just read the very promising movie review in the NYT about the new movie: “I’m Not There” aboutBob Dylans live. What should I say as a avid listener and fan since I heard Dylan as a 3 year old endlessly singing Blowing in the wind out of my fathers tape recorder on out way to France. So coming a long way from merely knowing who and what language it is that I hear to a collector who possesses every studio album and has seen him 6 times — however didn’t make it to the last Chicago concert co-staring Elvis Costello. So there is no question that I am going to see this film.

Trailers can be seen on Apples Movie Trailer page as usual. HD and LD.


Phpmyadmin Auth – Mysql – Multiuser

pmaopen:

config.inc.php in admin/ with your favorite editor:

<?php
/* Servers configuration */
$i = 0;

/* Server xyz server (http) [1] */
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = ‘pma_bookmark’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = ‘pma_relation’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = ‘pma_table_info’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = ‘pma_table_coords’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = ‘pma_pdf_pages’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = ‘pma_column_info’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = ‘pma_history’;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘localhost’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = ‘mysql’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ‘/var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = ‘socket’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = ‘pma’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = ‘xyz’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ‘xyz server’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = ‘phpmyadmin’;

/* End of servers configuration */

?>u

mysql> create database phpmyadmin;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phpmyadmin.* to ‘pma’@'localhost’

identified by ‘insert password here’ with grant

option;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* TO ‘pma’@'localhost’;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT SELECT (

-> Host, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv,

-> Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv,

-> File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv,

-> Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv,

Lock_tables_priv,

-> Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv

-> ) ON mysql.user TO ‘pma’@'localhost’;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> GRANT SELECT ON mysql.db TO ‘pma’@'localhost’;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT SELECT ON mysql.host TO ‘pma’@'localhost’;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT SELECT (Host, Db, User, Table_name, Table_priv, Column_priv)

-> ON mysql.tables_priv TO ‘pma’@'localhost’;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> flush privileges;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

Steve Balmer – As good as it gets

Watch the way he blushed after he gets really going, even forgets what they were talking about :)

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Business Class Bargains

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This article in the Practical Traveller Section of the NYT  proves a ongoing trend in the travel industry to attract more and more passengers to the business class. As the economy class is offering less and less service – on some intercontinental you do not even get food any more – so the speculation is if you still want some service upgrade or just book business class. So by having some nice offers people will no longer consider that option as totally out of mind. And the big Airlines are having a First oder Deluxe Business Class anyway. Just have a look at the new business class on Singapore Airlines featuring the new A380 it is already like a personal cabin with full features service (massage etc. ) What do you want more. Just spend around 10,000 $ and you are on your way from Singapore to Australia. You better have a good company or at least a very flexible contract, guys. Some interesting travel sites I stumbled upon include: Joes Pages for the Business Traveler as well as Flightbliss which gives you good advice on how to spend your miles, or better how to spend your miles to upgrade, now you just have to fly!

Freebsd System Update (SMP Kernels) old style

Freebsd System Update:

Get all sources via cvsup, cd to /usr/src and do a

make -j4 buildworld
make -j4 buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

then proceed to the real thing:

shutdown -r now
Single-Usermode? wählen (# boot -s) >
/sbin/fsck -p
/sbin/mount -u /
/sbin/mount -a -t ufs
/sbin/swapon -a

/usr/sbin/mergemaster -p
cd /usr/src
make installworld
/usr/sbin/mergemasterFREEBSDII
/sbin/reboot

/sbin/fsck
/sbin/mount -u /
/sbin/mount -a -t ufs
cd /usr/src
make clean

Also see the longer description in the FreeBSD Handbook.

That’s it :) Now you can enjoy your new system – check for the version: uname -a

The power of green – Friedman on the need to invest in green technology

FriedmanThomas Friedman – one can tell from the number of quotes and articles in this blog – is one of our favorite columnists. Well I guess that is a position he can claim to a large degree due to the ingenuity of some of his articles. I just found this article together with a small video in the Opinion section of the times. In the article “The Power of green” Friedman once again provides us with the reality and the discussions about climate change from a new and economically interesting perspective. He focus is basically on the US nevertheless most question will also be valid for the rest of the world. He asks the question how the children of tomorrow can survive a flattened, warmer and more dangerous world. Reflection go into 9/11 Kathrina and the Global Warming topics. Further he is asking for a green president denying the calls for a woman president or black president as just not that important. Friedman gets really going in the following sections in which he outlines his “First Law of Petropolitics” which according to him gives a measure of freedom rising with falling oil

green friedman

prices and vice versa. A very interesting thought presented in a nice and detailed fashion. “You can illustrate the First Law of Petropolitics with a simple graph. One one line chart the price of oil from 1979 to the present; on another line chart the Freedom House or Fraser Institute freedom indexes for Russia, Nigeria, Iran and Venezuela for the same years. When you put these two line on the same graph you see something striking: the price of oil and the pace of freedom are inversely correlated.” That is a striking recognition! Later in the article Friedman includes a scale from R. Socolow and Pacala which names 15 different sectors in which CO2 emissions have to be reduced in order to avoid a climate change in the long run. Again some very interesting thoughts. Including China brings the author closer to the economic point when introducing the concept of the China Price! “The China Price is the fundamental benchmark that everyone is looking to satisfy” Yes this measure is interesting as it asses the emerging countries need to grow despite climatic change and the danger of global warming. By fulfilling this measure we could find a way to satisfy their growth and save energy in the same way. Becoming a green leader and champion. Friedman elaborates on that and names one of his favorite example companies Wal-mart which started selling energy saving light bulbs. read about the savings alone by this measure! Other examples include Governor (yes you read right) George Bush energy saving (yes you still read right) law while he was still in Texas and many more. Friedman finally envisions a new America which is well know not only for being present in different places in the world, or known for Hamburgers and Jeans but for being green. Reading this article might be more useful time spend than watching the film “An inconvenient Truth” A must read!

Google Phone or gphone

smartphonesWill the gphone or the so-called google phone be the next thing to shake up telecom markets and force traditional producers to rethink? I just read this article about the Google Phone in the NYT and rumours on other blogs are quickly spreading about a release in the not too distant future. So what is it gonna look like? What will it bring? Not too much is known at the moment about this new gadget. But most probably it will be invented by Mr. Rubin and will be mostly a operating system running on multiple phones. Something similar to the Microsoft Mobile System running on many smartphones right now. While reading the NYT article I stumbles over some phrases which reminded me to the language and images used during the Dot.com boom of early 2000. We might see a time when this hype comes again. The iphone already showed all of us that there is a lot of potential in this market. “Walking on the beach there very early one morning in 1989, Mr. Rubin said, he came across someone asleep in a chair — a vacationing Apple engineer named Bill Caswell who had been evicted from his beach cottage after a fight with a girlfriend. Mr. Rubin gave him a place to stay. Mr. Caswell reciprocated by offering him a job at Apple, at the very moment the company was enjoying the first heady peak of the Macintosh’s popularity. “

The Hottest Voice On Air – AMY WINEHOUSE –

Amy Winehouse

Folks, I can tell you, I am surprised myself. I have no idea how this was possible. Amy Winehouse conquered the world while I was sleeping ;-) . Such things only happen because “The World is Flat”. Nevertheless, I am glad that I have finally discovered Amy and her music and I am totally paralyzed by her rusty, sexy and arousing voice. Have a look, and hear, for yourself, and listen and watch crazy, controversial, drug and alcohol addicted, but – or because of – wonderful Amy at YouTube. Usually, I hardly find stimulating artists in todays commercially driven world of music. But Amy really does make a difference!! Go for it little queeny…