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Pear compile into MAMP (OSX Snow Leopard)

cd php-5.3.1/ext/imap
make clean
phpize
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 \
CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp" \
CCFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" \
CXXFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" \
LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bind_at_load" \
./configure --with-imap=/usr/local/imap-2007 --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl=/usr/

http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/32919/

Minimum interest rate on personal loans

http://www.fpanet.org/journal/BetweentheIssues/LastMonth/Articles/LowInterestRatesMakeIntrafamilyLoansAppealing/

Low Interest Rates Make Intra-family Loans Appealing
By Kristi Mathisen and Barbara Potter

The Applicable Federal Rate
The key to transferring wealth through intra-family loans is the applicable federal rate, or AFR. The AFR is the rate at which the loan will be evaluated for both income and gift tax purposes. If a note requires a child to pay a parent no interest or an interest rate that is less than the appropriate applicable federal rate, the transaction will be characterized, at least in part, as a gift from the parent to the child and the income tax effects described above will occur. The caveat is also true. If the stated interest rate is at least the AFR, there is no gift element in the transaction, unless the interest is not in fact paid.
AFRs are determined by the IRS each month.3 The rates vary depending on the term: short-term for obligations due in less than three years, long-term for those due in more than nine years,  and mid-term for everything in between.4 Applicable federal rates are by no means market rates. They are based on the rates for various treasury securities during the previous month. These rates are almost always less than commercial or retail rates and therein lies their great appeal with today's low treasury rates.

Adjustable Federal Rates (IRS)
http://www.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/federalRates.html

Other IRS references
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p550/ch01.html

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p525/ar02.html

ssh-keygen instructions for windows (tortise, putty, winscp, etc)

The gist of it is.  

Create a public/private key in linux using ssh-keygen

Move the private key to authorized_keys in the .ssh folder

Move the private key to windows.

Use puttygen to load the existing private key (from linux) and save the private key (in the windows key format).

Use pageant to load the keys.  Then putty, winscp, tortise will use pageant as a key proxy and not more passwords.

http://linux-sxs.org/networking/openssh.putty.html

 

Commandline to samba mount linux to a windows share

I've had challenges with in the past getting a mount to work.  The following seems to work without any special consideration in the windows share.  This is especially good because it forces the linux folder to use the user and group so not special consideration is required in apache.

NOTE: /sbin/mount.cifs is a linux command, not a custom shell script.

This is mounting a windows shared folder named "project" to "/var/www/html/project".  The files in linux will all be 666 and the folders in linux will all be 777.  You can customize this.

/sbin/mount.cifs //{YOUR WIN IP ADDRESS}/project /var/www/html/project -o 'uid={YOUR LINUX USERNAME},gid=apache,sockopt="TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192",dir_mod=0777,file_mode=0666,noperm'

Put this in a shell script or an alias and it is quick, easy, and reliable.

Python count files in dirs program; better ls | wc -l (word count)

#!/usr/bin/python

import os

from os.path import join, getsize

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):

    print root, "consumes",

    print sum(getsize(join(root, name)) for name in files),

    print "bytes in", len(files), "non-directory files"

Setting up xamp environment with netbeans, mercurial, and Zend Framework

Install mercurial for windows for NetBeans integration

Add mercurial bin directory to the windows path

Add xampp php to the windows path

Add the Zend Framework bin folder to the windows path

Execute zf tool commands from the windows powershell

zf create project zend-sample

Add the following to the httpd-vhosts.conf (and uncommment the NameVirtualHost line)

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host2.localhost

DocumentRoot "C:\Users\matt\Documents\NetBeansProjects\zend-sample\public"

ServerName zend-sample

ServerAlias www.zend-sample

ErrorLog "logs/zend-sample-error.log"

CustomLog "logs/zend-sample-access.log" combined

<Directory C:\Users\matt\Documents\NetBeansProjects\zend-sample\public>

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Add to the hosts file:

127.0.0.1 zend-sample www.zend-sample

Add the zend framework library path to the include_path in the php.ini

Restart apache

Add the .hgignore

nbproject

In netbeans add the zend framework library to the include path

Gift Tax Limitiations

http://askville.amazon.com/gift-children-legally-income-tax-purposes/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=6382119

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=108139,00.html#5

What if my spouse and I want to give away property that we own together?
You are each entitled to the annual exclusion amount on the gift. Together, you can give $22,000 to each donee (2002-2005) or $24,000 (2006-2008), $26,000 (effective on or after January 1, 2009).

Mercurial resources

http://www.mercurial.ch/

Cheat sheets and other good stuff

http://hginit.com/00.html

Subversion reeducation

Magic Trackpad for Windows

Download this patch (available for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit)

7-zip and extract the contents of the exe

"BootCampUpdate32.msp" – extract the contents of this file

will have a file called "Binary.AppleWirelessTrackpad_Bin" – just add a .exe extension to this file and then double-click to run it.

http://www.labnol.org/software/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows/14158/

Arduino Microcontroller Relay Control Projects

http://futurlec.com/Relay_4.shtml

In expensive TTL control of high amp relays

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&productId=1860070&catalogId=10001&freeText=1860070&app.products.maxperpage=15&storeId=10001&search_type=jamecoall&ddkey=https:OrderItemAdd

5V 10mA control... could be directly connected to arduino?  Not sure about potential inductive load.

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_187151_-1

Similar but higher draw.  Maybe transistor controlled?

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?WT.z_header=search_go&lang=en&site=us&keywords=306-1250-ND&x=0&y=0

This is what I settled on.

306-1250-ND

ncurses on ubuntu and cygwin

By adding ncurses to cygwin you get a more robust terminal that reformats the text when you resize the rxvt terminal.  You get the clear command and it facilitates searching within a "less" command to say a few of the benefits.

Same is true for ubuntu.  I was suprised that my 10.04 installed did not include it by default.

sudo apt-get ncurses-term

Harddrive backup

HDCLONE - windows or ext
http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html#versions

Carbon Copy Backup
http://www.bombich.com

Block-level copies vs. file-level copies

Cloning an entire volume to another volume can be achieved in two ways: 1) Copying every file individually from one volume to the other or 2) Copying the underlying blocks from one volume to the other. These two methods are called "file-level copying" and "block-level copying", respectively. While each method produces functionally the same result, block-level copying is almost always faster than file-level copying.

To benefit from a block-level copy for a volume-to-volume clone, the following criteria must be met:

You must choose to "Delete items from the target that don't exist on the source" during the clone.
You must be able to unmount both volumes (there cannot be any open files on either volume and you cannot be booted from either volume). Do not actually unmount the volumes prior to the clone.
The target volume must be at least as large as the source volume.
If any of these criteria are not met, CCC will automatically fall back to a file-level clone. A file-level clone will yield the same result -- a bootable clone, but it will take a little longer.

While a block-level clone is rarely required to insure the fidelity of your backup, some people find comfort in the fact that, block-for-block, the resulting target is precisely like the original (this is simply impossible with a file-level clone). Don't lose sleep, though, if meeting the requirements for a block-level clone is untenable for your particular backup or cloning situation. The file-level backup engine in CCC has been tuned and honed to bring the best performance and fidelity possible among Mac OS X backup utilities.

To benefit from a block-level copy for a volume-to-disk image clone, the following criteria must be met (and note that you cannot boot Mac OS X from a disk image):

You must choose the "Backup everything" cloning method.
You must be able to unmount the source volume and the source volume must not be the startup disk. Do not actually unmount the source volume prior to the clone.
The underlying target volume must have enough capacity to accommodate the amount of space used on the source volume.

ufw (uncomplicated firewall) is an easier iptables

ufw default deny

ufw allow ssh

ufw allow www

or you can allow/deny by port and protocol.

less /etc/services to see a list of services by name

ufw enable

The ufw command even manages the init.d process for you.

If you enable logging then it logs to /var/log/messages : grep for UFW

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW

NASA Soldering

http://workmanship-562.gsfc.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/frameset.html

I need to keep looking.  There is a NASA guide with nearly 100 different solder joint techniques.  I just can't find it.

Saw and Fence idea from 1973

The Mar 1973 Pop Mech page 150 has a cool idea for a fence.  Even cooler.  Check out the picture of the radial arm saw.  Looks familiar.

http://books.google.com/books?id=e9QDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA138&ots=Knd6YKrXKI&dq=splice%20stranded%20wire%20%2Bsolder&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q&f=false

--Matt

rsync cygwin mirrors

rsync -azv --progress --stats --delete rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/release /cygdrive/n/pub/cygwin

rsync -azv --progress --stats --delete rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/set* /cygdrive/n/pub/cygwin

Need to combine this with my time machine script so I can make a diff patch of only the files that have changed since the last run.

Drupal

Good book. Beginning drupal 7 apress

Content construction kit cck
Views
Panels
Imagecache
Nicemenu
Nodequeues
Wysiwyg
Pathauto
Webform
Backup and migrate
Ubercart

Sent from my iPad

Economic Recovery Plan

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=204468,00.html

Check if you received the economic recovery payment. This needs to be claimed in the Making Work Pay.

If you do not recall if you received the payment, please contact your respective agency below to verify before resubmitting the return claiming the Making Work Pay and Government Retiree Credits. If you contact the agency and a discrepancy did occur, then the agency must provide you a letter confirming the discrepancy. You should not claim the Making Work Pay and Government Retiree Credit when filing your return, instead, you will need to first file your return, once accepted, you will need to file an amended return and you must attach a copy of the agency letter confirming the discrepancy. - Social Security Administration: Toll-free number is 800-772-1213. General ERP inquiries can be answered by the SSA Web site:http://www.ssa.gov/recovery/. - Veterans Administration: Toll-free number is 800-827-1000. General ERP inquiries can be answered by going to the VA Web site:http://www4.va.gov/recovery/. - Railroad Retirement Board: Go to the RRB Web site at http://www.rrb.gov/recovery/ for more details. To review your entries follow the below steps: 1) Log into TaxACT Online or start your TaxACT desktop return. 2) Click on the Federal Q&A tab 3) Click Other Credits, then Making work pay and government retiree credit. 4) Click YES and TaxACT will proceed with the interview questions for you to enter or review your the appropriate information. Repeat the Filing step to resubmit your return.

Photoshop to HTML services

http://www.xhtmldevelopers.com/order_now.php?gclid=CJ2qz-3qracCFYh_5QodSGhCDg

http://www.psd2css.com/

http://www.xhtml4u.com/

http://psdslicing.com/

http://www.htmlblender.com/

http://psd.to-html.com/

http://www.psdtohtmlcss.com

http://www.psd2html.com/

http://www.convert2xhtml.com/

http://www.xhtmljunction.com/

http://www.seo-semantic-xhtml.com

http://www.xhtmlchop.com

Look for cross browser compatibility.