Another awesome example of why Bollywood is greater than Hollywood.

Supposedly, the main guy in the video is a “great dance master”. The guy’s name is Prabhu Deva and a quick look on YouTube finds a ton of great treasures.

It makes me want to move over there and become an international pop star. Imagine it now…so sweet!

It’s pretty awesome that NASA has finally figured out how to recycle urine into drinking water. When this hits the home market it’s going to help save me a ton on buying bottled water.

My sides hurt from laughing so hard.

The best thing to happen to Saturday Night Live in recent memory is the comic trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. They’re responsible for all of the Digital Shorts you see on SNL almost every week. I’m sure you’ve seen some of these, like Dick in a Box with Justin Timberlake or Lazy Sunday. Here is the latest Digital Short from last nights SNL. Pure Gold!

I have to go a little nerd on you. I’ve been working on my AIX test system trying to get Apache2 and PHP5 installed. The reason for this is because I want to setup drupal with a DB2 backend. Once, if, I get this working I plan on setting up a team page for my co-workers.

Why am I putting this on SirRobbieRob.com? Just in the case this system completely dies on me, I don’t want to have to figure it out again. So, more than anything, it’s here for my reference.

Prerequisites

1. Make sure you have the necessary free space in the following filesystems:
* /usr
* /opt
* /home
* /tmp

2. Download the following:

* Apache Web Server 2.2.2 source code - link
* GNU C compiler version 4 for AIX 5.3 - link
* GCC library for AIX 5.3 - link
* PHP 5.1 source code - link
* XML support – IBM’s AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications is back rev’d. Use these instead
libxml2 2.6.21

libxml2-devel
General tools from IBM AIX Toolbox Download Page
o LEX flex-2.5
o XML support expat-1.95.7
o Compression library zlib-1.2.2
o Compression develoment zlib-devel-1.2.2
o Compression library bz2-1.0.2-3
o jpeg support libjpeg-6b-6
o jpeg support development libjpeg-devel-6b-6
o png support libpng-1.2.1-6
o png development libpng-devel-1.2.1-6
o Pixmap xpm-3.4k
o Pixmap development xpm-devel-3.4k
o Freetype2 fonts freetype2-2.1.7-2
o Freetype2 fonts development freetype2-devel-2.1.7-2
o Gettext support gettext-0.10.40
o Any other libraries you might need for Apache or PHP
* Install all the RPM files

3. Install libm.a from the AIX CDROM
4. Install the compiler and library

rpm -Uvh gcc-4*.rpm
rpm -Uvh libgcc-4*rpm

Compiling Apache2 using GCC

1. Uncompress the Apache Web Server source into your home directory

# gunzip httpd-2*tar.gz
# tar xvf httpd-2*.tar
# cd httpd*

2. Build the configuration file enabling shared object

# ./configure

3. Compile the server

#slibclean
# make

4. Install the server (/usr/local/apache2)

# make install

Compiling PHP using GCC

1. Uncompress the PHP source code file and untar the file

# gunzip php*tar.gz
# tar xvf php*.tar
# cd php-5.1.4

2. Build the configuration file enabling shared objects

# export PATH=/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
# ./configure –prefix=/usr/local –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs –with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf –with-gd –with-pear –with-gettext –with-mime-magic –with-zlib-dir=/opt/freeware/lib –enable-shared –disable-static –with-png –with-zlib –with-bz2 –with-xml –with-jpeg-dir=/opt/freeware/lib –with-png-dir=/opt/freeware/lib –with-xpm-dir=/opt/freeware/lib –with-freetype-dir=/opt/freeware/lib

3. Compile PHP with the following command:

# make

NOTE: There will be compiler warnings about pointers type mismatches. The can be disregarded.
4. Install PHP with the following two commands

# cp .libs/libphp5.so /usr/local/apache2/modules
# cp php.ini-recommended /usr/local/apache2/conf/php.ini

Configuring Apache2 with PHP

1. Stop Apache2

# /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k stop

2. Edit /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf, adding the following at the end

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
DirectoryIndex index.php

3. Edit the /usr/local/apache2/conf/php.ini file

Change the php variable:
;date.timezone =
to reflect your timezone

4. Restart Apache2

# /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start

5. Now test PHP with Apache2

* Create a test web page

# vi /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/phpinfo.php
<?php phpinfo() ?>
* Open the page in your browser: http://localhost/phpinfo.php
* Verify the php data
* Delete phpinfo.php

# rm /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/phpinfo.php

You can’t go to any big news site without reading something about the big 3 automakers seeking a 25 billion dollar bailout from Congress. All 3 of them are in danger of running out of money which means 750,000 Americans would be out of a job.  I’m not sure if that includes the jobs that depend on the automakers for business but that number has the potential to be a lot higher.

Even so, Congress should not bailout the US automakers for their stupid ass business decisions. You don’t see the Japanese automakers begging for money. Yeah, they’re not making the profits they would like to be, but they’re making some profit. Even a retarded yeti could have told you banking on big ass trucks in today’s world is plain stupid. You would think with all that money you have invested in your SUVs and Pickups, you would have the best out there. But that’s not even the case.  Toyota Tacoma and Tundra’s are far superior in quality. But that’s all history, we can’t change the fact you thought selling turds with your emblem would be enough to get you by. We need to look to the future. We need someone to come in and steer us in the right direction.

I think I know the right person for the job.

Me!

I have a plan that I think will work. It’s pretty simple.

Bail my ass out!

Give me the money to pay off my debts. That way I can start over, and I don’t mean start over by cleaning the slate and learning from past mistakes. I mean pay off my debt and I will go full out, racking it right back up, injecting that money right back into the economy. I will even do better than that…I will double the amount of debt I get into. Maybe I will even use some of the money to buy a crappy American car (See this plan will even help the automakers). In order for this plan to work, every American must be bailed out. I’m fairly certain this would help get us out of a recession.

Unfortunately, it will probably come right back around because I (we) would not be able to pay off the new debt. But that is easy enough to fix. Just bail me (us) out again! I (we) will turn around and triple the amount of debt I (we…you get the point) got into originally.

You may be saying to yourself “This is, by far, the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard”

I respond to this with a question; How is this any different than bailing out the automakers? What are they going to change if they get the money? Ohhh the CEOs are going to work for $1 a year. Nice plan dipshit. They will work for $1, but they will continue producing SUVs and Trucks that no one is going to buy. They need time to shift their focus from Trucks, SUVs, and retro Muscle Cars (I’m a sucker, that new Dodge Challenger looks sexy, don’t forget the Chevy Camaro coming out) to making some economy class cars that consumers want to drive. That isn’t going to happen anytime soon, so they will be back sometime next year asking for more money.

So Congress, hurry up and bail ME out. I have my eye on a Ferrari I can’t afford.