What I Learned Today

Today I learned that there's a bug in RHEL and CentOS with the stock php and php53 packages. They are mutually exclusive, but other third party packages may only be looking for the "php" packages, and not use "php53" as an alternative.

I also learned that I can finally see hidden files in Eclipse Remote System Explorer by clicking the down arrow, then preferences, then Remote Systems, then choosing "Show hidden files" on the "Files" tab.

He might scare away a few people at the pearly gates. Those damn Beatles!

Today I learned there was a Canadian band in the early 70's named "Alabama"

Today I learned that Alan Turing (mathematician, AI pioneer) was gay:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/turing-test-revisited/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing

The PHP language just recently (version 5.3) started supporting the "goto" statement:

Code:

function lock() {
    $file = fopen('file.txt', 'r+');
    retry:
    if (!flock($file, LOCK_EX & LOCK_NB)) {
        goto retry;
    }
    fwrite($file, 'Success!');
    fclose($file);
    return 0;
}

Do tell.

I learned to not grill with charcoal in flip flops

I melted my flip flops on the bottom. Must have walked on a hot coal or something

I learned the name of this song is "Night on Bald Mountain"


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8

I was looking at some visitor stats, blocking some countries that don't play nicely with me, and found an interesting flag. It's from The Republic of Seychelles. I've never heard of it, but it's probably the coolest country flag I've ever seen.



Seychelles (i/seɪˈʃɛlz/ say-shelz; French: [sɛʃɛl]), officially the Republic of Seychelles (French: République des Seychelles; Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar.
Other nearby island countries and territories include Zanzibar to the west, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agalega and Réunion to the south, Comoros and Mayotte to the southwest. Seychelles, with an estimated population of 86,525, has the smallest population of any African state.[3] It also has the highest Human Development Index in Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles

Why our emails have a "@" in them....

Email is something many of us have only been using for the past 20 years, but its roots go back much much further than that. The earliest traces of email even date back to the 1960s. And according to Wired, computer engineer Ray Tomlinson was responsible for many of email's earliest innovations, including the use of @ in email addresses.

The main reason we use @ in email addresses? It's a symbol for a preposition, and it will never be confused for any part of our actual names.

"I looked at the keyboard, and I thought: ‘What can I choose here that won't be confused with a username?'" Tomlinson remembers. "If every person had an ‘@' sign in their name, it wouldn't work too well. But they didn't. They did use commas and slashes and brackets. Of the remaining three or four characters, the ‘@' sign made the most sense. It denoted where the user was … at. Excuse my English."

Tomlinson calls the ‘@' symbol "the only preposition on the keyboard."

http://gizmodo.com/5930154/ray-toml...ail-address-has-an--in-it?utm_medium=referral

Don't let young kids listen to "Payphone" by Maroon 5, unless it's from the radio, I didn't realize the explicit lyrics... Now I gotta get the "clean" version for another 99 cents

If "Happy Ever After" did exist,

I would still be holding you like this

[Video:] All those fairy tales are full of shit

[Album:] All those fairy tales are full of it.

[Video:] One more fucking love song, I'll be sick.

[Album:] One more stupid love song, I'll be sick

Now I'm at a payphone

[Explicit version verse (Wiz Khalifa):]

Man, fuck that shit

I'll be out spending all this money

While you're sitting round wondering

Why it wasn't you who came up from nothing,

Made it from the bottom

Now when you see me I'm stunning,

And all of my cars start with a push of a button

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlQSQuv_mg

Whenever I find a golf ball behind a tree, I'm reminded that trees are 90% air.