its official, php4 is going away.  Welcome php5. 

I updated the bash prompt on my opensuse 10.3 servers. In my .bashrc file I added:

# Set the prompt for root: (taken from suse 10.3 /etc/bash.bashrc (I added the title bar)
PS1=”\[$_bred\]$PS1\[$_sgr0\] \e]2;\h\a”

the \e]2;\h\a adds the hostname to the titlebar on my term, allowing me to quickly know which server I’m on.

I also have a set of define aliases, aliases are very nice for the cli. An alias is basically a shortcut.

#Define aliases
alias www=”cd /srv/www/htdocs”

#alias commands
alias tm=”tail -f /var/log/mail”
alias restart=”shutdown -r -f -t 5 now”

So now, when I want to tail the mail log, I just type tm at the prompt.

Over the Christmas break I installed upgraded (whipped and re-loaded) my desktop with Ubuntu 7.10 x_64. X_64 is the 64bit version.

I used linux x_64 on most of my servers at work, no not ubuntu, another flavor, but on my desktop, I like ubuntu. So I deciced to update to x_64 on my desktop. So far so good. It’s fast, I don’t know if it’s faster, seems more efficient at tasking, but that may be the feel of a new desktop too. Everything seems to work well, with the exception of “Flash” in Mozilla and Opera (I had to get the 64bit of Opera as 32bit would not work)

Here is my latest screenshot:

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