Author: yuval

Categories
General

Best songs ever

At present, I think of these as the best songs ever. I am fickle. This may change tomorrow. Order does not count.

  • Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose
  • Helmet – In the meantime
  • Cypress Hill – How I could just kill a man
  • Gin and Juice – Dr. Dre / Snoop
    Anything on ‘The Chronic’ is the best song ever, really
  • The Boss – James Brown
  • Thunder Kiss ’65 – White Zombie
  • Live for this – Hatebreed
    Nothing is more intense.
  • Blues from a gun – The Jesus and Mary Chain
    ‘Automatic’ used to be perfect. Impossible to be more perfect than ‘The Chronic’
  • 100 Miles and Runnin’ – NWA
  • Movin’ on up – Primal Scream
    My first choice for a song to get married to. Inappropriate, really.
  • Sweet Potato Pie – Domino
    Pop rap perfection. Domino never reached anything near this.
  • Harry – Melvins
    Guitars too thick to waste words on.
  • MDMA – Love 666
    Also thick with noise, anthem style
  • Monster Magnet – Negasonic Teenage Warhead
  • CNN – Young, White, Stupid
  • Ice Cube – Wicked
    The one truly remarkable song he ever put out. Flea in the video was cool, too.

My taste. Not your taste.

Share
Categories
PHP Web Development

PHP: Headers cannot be sent or why is headers_sent() incorrect?

Working with PHP, trying to warm up to PHP 5 with all its object-oriented glory, or at least step forward compared to PHP 4.

When you redirect browsers in PHP, you do it raw, without niceties of objects, by sending the HTTP header to the client with a call like:

header(“Location: “);

For some odd reason, this kept on failing, with an error message telling me that the header cannot be sent. Furthermore, PHP even told me through its header ‘detection’ method php headers_sent() that the headers were indeed sent.

Googled and found this article that infers that the issue may have something to do with file encoding. The file that was causing the issues for me was copied from a Windows machine (I am developing on a Linux VM now). It had the Windows line separators (\r\n). Apparently this made Apache and PHP on Linux very very uneasy and made them think that the headers were sent out.

Resolution: Copy the contents of the file to another file that was born on Unix and uses its line separators (\n). Ugly moments in coding.

Share
Categories
General

Typing in Hebrew in Ubuntu (and other foreign languages too)

This was apparently a challenge because the documentation is pretty scant.

I am now using Ubuntu 7.04 (so fresh) but regardless, could not find for the life of me how to edit a Word document in Hebrew using an OS that is all about being international (edit was supposed to be done in OpenOffice).

There are two steps – the first is the most logical and important, the second silly but crucial. So here goes:

1. Set up Hebrew in Ubuntu

From the System menu, select Administration and then Language Support. There, add your language(s) of  choice. Once you click OK, Ubuntu will download the additional fonts and whatever it needs to support the use of the additional language.

2. Add the *Keyboard Indicator* to the panel

Unlike Windows, which adds the language switching to the taskbar, Ubuntu leaves that for you to do. Not that I knew about it until I found a reference to a ‘Keyboard Indicator’ applet which does the exact same thing. To add it to your Ubuntu panel, right click the panel and select ‘Add to Panel’. From the list that appears, select ‘Keyboard Indicator’, which will now display the languages available for your use.

What is interesting is that Ubuntu offers two keyboard layouts for Hebrew: Lyx – which is the standard Hebrew layout (Mem sofit on separate key) and phonetic (Mem sofit as shift-Mem). Cool stuff when you get it to work…

Share
Share