Walk New Hampshire Celebration!

Dr. Susan Lynch, NH First Lady

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Today at the State house Plaza, NH First Lady Susan Lynch lead the Walk NH celebration.

Other speakers included NH Ski Paralympian Tyler Walker and Governor John Lynch.






See the complete set of photos here.

Creative Webcam Live! works with Ubuntu/Dapper

I just picked up a Creative Webcam Live! which does a reasonable 1024x768 snapshot and 640x480 video resolution for $49. At first it looked like I'd have to build the spca5xx kernel module for Ubuntu/Dapper, but it is now included in the default kernel & modules packages.

Just plug it in and start using one of the many video capture packages like camorama, webcam, camstream, motion, gqcam, etc and start playing around!

FWIW here below the fold are my loaded kernel modules:

8th Annual Sea Lamprey Appreciation day at Amoskeag Fishways

We had so much fun last year, we went this year to the Lamprey Appreciation Day again!

Another historial nugget we learned today -- the lamprey were so numerous in the Merrimack River, that the people of Manchester (called Derryfield in the 1800s) that they were called Derryfield Beef.







Check out all the photos here: 8th Annual Lamprey Appreciation Day

Akismet works great

In the last week there has been a dramatic spike in the number of comment spam messages I've been getting. Yesterday I installed akismet, got a wordpress.com API key and in 24 hours it has stopped 300+ junk comments and let the one real one through -- incredibly simple and painless to install and start using.

more photos of flooding in New Hampshire

merrimack-dam-2-pano.jpg

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Compare the above photo with this one from the summer.

Flooding in New Hampshire

merrimack-meetinghouse-park-1-pano.jpg

Originally uploaded by marcn.

I drove around town and took a few photos of the flooding.

School is cancelled on account of rain. Seriously.

The rest of the photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72057594135081417/

Getting ajaxMyTop to work on Ubuntu/Dapper

I'm sitting in MySQL bootcamp today and wanted to have some ajaxMyTop eyecandy running on my laptop while doing the labs.

Unfortunately ajaxMyTop is written to PHP5 and I'm using PHP4 on Ubuntu/Dapper. These are the steps needed to get it working:

* Install php4-domxml (apt-get install php4-domxml)

* Restart apache2 ( sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart )

* Grab the modified processlist.php from the ajaxMyTop forum on sourceforge here and replace the one provided by the 0.5.5 kit.

* Create a dbconfig.inc.php that looks something like this:


<?
$dbHost = "localhost";
$dbUser = "root";
$dbPass = "YOUR-ROOT-PASSWORD";
$db = mysql_connect($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass);
?>