There has been a lot of fuzz the last weeks about GoDaddy supporting SOPA.

Not only are they supporting the bill, resitricting a free and open internet, they are also releasing false statements to try and calm down customers by saying they dropped support. On the day of this writing however they have not dropped their support officially.

No matter wether they will drop their support, i’m already looking too move my 5 domains plus hosting away from the company. If an internet company does not get how bad such a bill can, and will, be from the second they lay their eyes on it, they do not deserve any of my money.

I must say i have never had problems with their services or anything, but supporting SOPA is really a statement of complete idiocy, in which i will not partake. This is a completely selfish act on the behalf of GoDaddy imo, so they will loose me, among many others as a customer in the weeks to come…

If you too are a customer, please inform yourself about SOPA.

ubuntu php dev prep commands:

sudo apt-get install vim php5 apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-xdebug php5-sqlite php5-curl php5-svn php5-mcrypt php5-ldap phpunit
sudo a2enmod rewrite
echo 'ServerName localhost' | sudo tee /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo apt-get install subversion git git-svn

pear prep commands:

sudo pear upgrade
sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit --alldeps

mounting shared folder in virtualbox:

sudo mkdir /mnt/workspace
sudo chmod 777 -R /mnt/workspace
echo '[FOLDERNAME]  /mnt/workspace  vboxsf  defaults,rw 0   0' | sudo tee /etc/fstab
sudo mount -a

install sun java jdk to run PHPStorm

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

(thx to this blog for the tip on the repo)

install openVPN support in gnome

sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome

Lot’s of websites are still using Flash to play movies. I personally think this is counter productive because of it’s pour compatibility, and support not beeing native. It’s biggest competitor at the moment is HTML5. It can do video playback natively in the browser, with hardware acceleration and better power management. HTML5 also does not exclude a large userbase of iOS internetters.