So the new Google boondoggle with it's +Search is that it 'favors' it's own social network results over actual relevant social network search results... results from Google's own search engine. If you want more background, check out this Forbes article, or go straight to http://focusontheuser.org/.

Anyway, I decided to try this little bit out, and what do I find? Chrome has a 'bug', and apparently, if you don't like this 'bug', Chrome suggests maybe you go use Firefox instead. Really.

Coincidence?

Style is not something I will claim to have, but I will claim to appreciate that it's needed. The default style for Cacti graphs is fine in my opinion, but when putting together a long-term solution for use within an organization, it's nice/good to maintain the style of the rest of the organization's media if possible and not too cumbersome to effectuate.

So in

<server_path_to_cacti_installation>/cacti/lib/rrd.php

at around line 826 to 836 or so (depending on your version) there's a comment for "/* basic graph options */" and below that, the $graph_opts variable definition. Adding additonal entries here can drastically change the way your graphs look. Here's how to get rid of the grid used in the graph images:

$graph_opts .=

On this sad passing day, Christopher Hitchens has finally succumbed to the debate he staked a large portion of his public career on. He had made many bold statements, but one that stood out among the rest when he was younger and healthier went something to the effect of, "It's not moral to lie to children; it's not moral to lie to ignorant or uneducated people, and tell them that if only they believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral." It stands out because one of the clips on YouTube from his later days reveals the problem of tackling early mortality in conventional terms- he describes his attempt at treatment via gene sequencing. To me it reveals a desperate hope, a hope against the reality of the situation. He's scared, he's sick, and he's clinging to a possible but improbable 'out' with some of the most advanced science available to western medicine. Who's to say anyone placed in his position wouldn't act similarly, if they were so lucky to be as composed as he was? He had been given almost something of a lie to cling to, something to make the inevitable a bit easier to deal with. He showed that all people will cling to hope when it's offered, no matter what their belief system is or isn't.

If you get the warning that CPAN doesn't support terminal history, it's because your CPAN installation is missing-

Term::Readline

That's it. Install that and then you should be good.

OpenBSD 5.0 has both PHP5.2 and PHP5.3.6 , which is a change from OpenBSD 4.9. There are a few considerations one should make prior to using php5.3.6...

Firstly, Pear (PHP's CPAN) package installation grabs PHP-5.2.17p5, even if you have PHP5.3.6 installed via packages. So be careful, Pear itself may not be managing in the way you assume it to.

Secondly, The phpMyAdmin package still demands the PHP5.2 modules to properly install... using the PHP5.3.6 package modules ahead of a package-add of phpMyAdmin will result in unresolvable conflicts. This is important if phpMyAdmin is very important to you... if this is the case, on OpenBSD, do not upgrade PHP to 5.3.6 if you are going to use the packages system (which is always recommended over compiling apps).