Or rather a lack of thanks,

Pledgie as most of you know is a donation system for tracking set campaigns, you will of seen in the sidebar a link to https://pledgie.com/campaigns/2090 I have since sent in a deletion request for the campaign due to idiotic users spamming the ‘report spam’ function of Pledgie and marking the campaign down under their own.

Well that’s nice of you, the campaign was to offset the near £1400 server rental cost for Saiweb, this was to provide open source software to the some 5000 unique visitors a month finding the answers to their technical issues on this blog and downloading the tools available from subversion.

This has forced me to re-think my position on providing the at the time of writing $20,200 worth of FREE open source software (as valued by ohloh).

With the free updates and free support, which until this moment I had not minded doing.

As you can see except for the one google addwords bar at the top of this blog (which no one ever clicks) this blog and the information provided is Add FREE, being as the cost of running Saiweb is not going to be helped by relying on ‘Good will’ of the users it helps, Saiweb will shortly be undergoing a radical restructure.

The ‘Build Your Own HD Youtube series’ with immediate effect is now canceled.

Saiweb will continue to operate as normal with regard to all other projects until further notice.

2.0.1.2 brings a fix for #15 allowing users to edit the relative path.

As this is currently in testing you can get a copy of this fix here

svn export -r 144 https://svn.blog.oneiroi.co.uk/branches/wordpress-flowplayer/trunk/flowplayer.php

How to write a bash ‘hello world’ script in 60 seconds, admitedly it could of been faster … damn typos

Also the first line you can add as an alias, if your going to be writing a lot of bash scripts.

[FLOWPLAYER=bash_hello_world.mp4,600,200]

Or you can copy paste and have it done in about 5 seconds :-P

BPATH=`which bash`; echo "#! $BPATH" | awk '{print $1$2}' > script.sh

The reason for the echo and awk is when trying to do echo “#!$BPATH” > script.sh my shell wouldn’t cooperate so all the awk does is take out the space :-).

As per my previous post I was faced with a serious BSOD problem.

Now this is corrected and so you do not face the same problem here are my findings

• VMWare identifies the ISO file as Vista
• 
• The ‘optional’ admin password doesn’t seem to be optional! Enter this to avoid BSOD later.
• 
• On file sharing I chose NONE
• 
• Customize your settings!
• NOTE: Set the hard disk type to IDE and NOT SCSI
• 
• Enjoy
• 

So I decided to take Windows 7 for a spin in VMWare fusion, downloaded the shiny new 3.15GB x64 ISO and away I went …

Only in typical windows style to have a flashing blue screen restart, in that you can see it B.S.O.D’ed (blue screen of death) but the system restarted so quickly it error message was utterly pointless and you’d need a high speed camera to see it …

[FLOWPLAYER=windows_7_small.mp4,300,254]

UPDATE: Very obscure, but it has to do with the fact VMWare identifies the install as Vista x64, when it says the administrator password is optional DO NOT leave it blank, infact in this case it is not optional, setting a password allows the OS to install correctly it seems, I now have it running perfectly, you will also need to change the hard drive BUS emulation from SCSI to IDE.