phpsh is an interactive shell for php with a full suite of features like auto tab completion and readline history. Ironically, the tool was written in Python (hah..). It has been a really nice tool to quickly test out lines of php to make sure they'll do what I expect them to do.

You can preserve your environment by passing -m to the su command.

Do any of you know about Ubuntu Error #15 while booting? If so please contact me via e-mail..

vi ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

 [Default Applications]
 application/x-php=gvim.desktop
 image/gif=gthumb.desktop;
 image/jpg=gthumb.desktop;
 image/jpeg=gthumb.desktop;
 image/bmp=gthumb.desktop;
 image/png=gthumb.desktop;
 image/tif=gthumb.desktop;
 image/tiff=gthumb.desktop;

Something like that will do the trick..

In FireFox just type about:config into the url-bar to access a ton of preferences.

LatencyTop looks like an interesting tool.

How to improve BASH autocompletion

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

 # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
 # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
 # sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
 if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
 . /etc/bash_completion
 fi

source

Error:

$ ccsm

 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/ccsm", line 45, in 
     idle = ccm.IdleSettingsParser(context)
   File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Utils.py", line 229, in __init__
   File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Utils.py", line 228, in 
   File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/Utils.py", line 225, in FilterPlugin
 AttributeError: 'compizconfig.Plugin' object has no attribute 'Initialized'

Fixed by:

 sudo aptitude remove compizconfig-settings-manager
 sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager

Fix found in the ubuntu forums.

How to mount an ISO image file in Linux:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 image_file.iso /mnt/target_directory

Helpful chart for creating VIM ColorSchemes

I really like this VIM colorscheme: Neverness

I thought this was kind of neat:

MySQL Base64 functions in procedural SQL

Read the full article to see what I found out about getting TRIGGER xTriggerNamex BEFORE SELECT ON xTablex behavior out of mysql.