If you’ve recently upgraded to MediaWiki 1.20 or later and you use MySQL you may see a mediawiki undefined property PHP Notice filling up your web server’s error log. I don’t like it filling my logs. Off with it’s head!

If you see the Cant initalize UI, Running in headless mode, you’re probably using one of the non-sun javas like openjdk or icedtea. These are not compatible and will cause this error during installation.

Use wget to download google’s key and pipe it into apt-key. Add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list. Browse the repositories with aptitude.

I love a good rant, especially when it’s well justified. The carriers want to rip you off. When it comes to paying for tethering on top of your data plan, Mike Elgan hits the nail on the head telling you how it is.

Get to the android market and download those apps. There’s some good stuff available right now. Games, utilities, launchers, etc. And if you buy something and you don’t like it, simply refund your money within the trial time period and you’ve lost nothing!

You put a quarter in at the top, and it falls onto a tray that pushes a pile of coins toward you. Any coins that fall off the front of the machine are yours to keep. Sometimes you’ll find other prizes interspersed among the coins.

Here’s a couple of different ways you can use netsnmp in Python. I had a hard time finding documentation, and what I did find was old and outdated. I figured most of it out just by playing around with the library.