To get the repo running you’ll need to install a couple of RPM’s:

epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
remi-release-5.rpm

To install them:

rpm -Uvh epel-release-5*.rpm remi-release-5*.rpm

After that jump into /etc/yum.repos.d where you should now have a remi.repo file. Edit that and change enabled=0 to enabled=1 and you’re good to go. Do a yum check-updates and install away.

Note that if you don’t add the prefix to configure libevent you can end up with bits everywhere and it getting a little bit fiddly.

[root@host ~] wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.10-stable.tar.gz
[root@host ~] tar xvfz libevent-1.4.10-stable.tar.gz
[root@host ~] cd libevent-1.4.10-stable
[root@host libevent-1.4.10-stable] ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
[root@host libevent-1.4.10-stable] make && make install
[root@host libevent-1.4.10-stable] cd ~
[root@host ~] vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libevent-i386.conf
	insert:
	/usr/local/lib/
[root@host ~] ln -s /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.4.so.2 /lib/libevent-1.4.so.2
[root@host ~] wget http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.4.tar.gz
[root@host ~] tar xvfz memcached-1.4.4.tar.gz
[root@host ~] cd memcached-1.4.4
[root@host memcached-1.4.4] ./configure --with-libevent=/usr/local
[root@host memcached-1.4.4] make && make install

Now you should be able to run memcached.

memcached -vv -u nobody

Alternatively of course you can use yum but that’s no fun and not always the latest version.

It’s also really easy to switch online once you’ve found the right links. If you click on the “Shop” dropdown at the top you’ll see an Upgrade Your Phone link. Follow that, enter your mobile number and then the code you’ll get by SMS. Once in you can pick from the don’t want a phone section and just pick the new tariff. You can also just go on a month to month rolling contract which is great, saves you money and hopefully makes you ready for the iPhone 4G. You can also “downgrade” to these tariffs and save £5/m if you go for a 12 month contract.

I’ve gone through the process just now and as yet not received a confirmation email but hopefully that’ll turn up soon!

Edit: Still no email but now the O2 iPhone app shows I’m on to simplicity 20 tariff.

In order to find them in the database I knocked up the following SQL:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE data LIKE CONCAT('%',CHAR(0x0B),'%');

Then to replace them quickly (assuming the 3 records have ID’s 1,2 and 3):

UPDATE table SET data = REPLACE(data,CHAR(0x0B),'') WHERE id IN (1,2,3);

#!/bin/bash
TWEET=$1
TWEETLEN=${#TWEET}
if [ $TWEETLEN -eq 0 ] || [ $TWEETLEN -gt 140 ]; then
	if [ $TWEETLEN -gt 140 ]; then
		let EXTRA=$TWEETLEN-140
		echo "Usage: tweet \"message\" (140 chars or less, you're $EXTRA over)"
	else
		echo "Usage: tweet \"message\" (140 chars or less)"
	fi
	exit 1
else
	curl -u username:password -d status="$1" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
fi
exit 0

Save the file as “tweet” and make sure it’s in the path with executable permissions of 755.

chmod 755 tweet

I’ve got a Phatnoise MP3 system in my Golf and have had the same music on the cartridge for ages. The problem is the company who make it don’t really seem to be around to much and I think have been acquired by Harmon. Either way if you need the latest version of the Phatnoise music / media manager I suggest you go check out this post on a very handy forum!

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.htm