Here’s the details, straight from http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/how-to-fix-pecl-php-error-binsh-bad-interpreter-permission-denied

% mount -oremount,exec /tmp
% pecl install <whatever>
% mount -oremount,noexec /tmp

# /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop

# vi /etc/hosts.deny
Delete your IP address. Save and close the file.

This handy tip was gleaned from the following site:

http://technosophos.com/content/os-x-using-curl-instead-wget

I’ve been using working full-time on my MacBook Pro for about a year now, and in [...]]]> Curl on Mac OS X makes a relatively suitable replacement for wget, but I can never remember the proper syntax, which is as such:

curl -OL h ttps://github.com/mcrumm/Ignitify/tarball/master

This handy tip was gleaned from the following site:

http://technosophos.com/content/os-x-using-curl-instead-wget

I’ve been using working full-time on my MacBook Pro for about a year now, and in some ways I’m still finding my way around.  Since I’m on the command line all day for work, I’m quite used to using wget for downloading files.  On the Mac, however, this option isn’t available by default.  Rather than futz with installing a version of wget, I’m quite content to “do it the Apple way” and use curl, but I can never remember the proper command.

I’m posting this here mainly as a reminder to myself.  I figure as I come across these things that I have to look up more than once, I’ll post them here to make them a bit easier to find.

I’ve decided to start using my blog again, if only as a repository for things that I [...]]]>

(6/20) Update:  I meant to post this ages ago, but I forgot.  The issue I was experiencing with Firefox 4 was entirely my own fault.  I’ve since upgraded back to Firefox 4 and haven’t seen any problems since.

I’ve decided to start using my blog again, if only as a repository for things that I come across on the web and may need to find again.  Generally I bookmark these things, but I shudder to describe the state of my bookmarks folders.  Yes, I said folders, for they exist on no less than two different machines, and that’s not included the backed-up versions of my bookmarks folders from multiple rebuilds, upgrades, and eff-ups across the entire span of my computer-using existence.

Before I get farther off-topic, I must say that it pains me a bit that the first post I write will describe steps to downgrade from Firefox 4 back to Firefox 3.6.17
I’ve been using FF4 for a couple weeks now, and for the most part, I didn’t notice much of a difference.  However, I’ve recently been working on integrated a number of different javascript components into some client sites, and for some reason, they don’t all seem to play nicely in FF4 or Chrome 11.  Namely, the Twitter @Anywhere widgets seem to cause some problems, but that’s a topic for another day.

Here’s a link to the help article where I found the pertinent downgrade info:  http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/820280#answer-181180

And here’s a quick screencap for the lazy:

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PS – I’m using Firefox 4 on a MacBook Pro, so your mileage may vary.  I honestly haven’t tried in on my Windows machine (which is still XP even) because I needed at least one “working” browser for this last project.  Since I’ve downgraded my daily-use machine back to 3.6.17, I may upgrade the XP box to 4 and see if it has the same issues.

Or I guess I could just troubleshoot the Twitter problem.

My Take: I created a commercial for a fake bar/nightclub in Macomb called Rehab. Rehab is offering drink specials for finals week to help students relieve stress. My sound effects are taken from one of [...]]]> The Assignment: Create a 30 second radio commercial or PSA featuring a music bed and at least one sound effect.

My Take: I created a commercial for a fake bar/nightclub in Macomb called Rehab. Rehab is offering drink specials for finals week to help students relieve stress. My sound effects are taken from one of my very favorite things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2C6kliINI

Instructor Comments: Your recording was a beauty.  I’m fixing to enter it in to NBS this Fall as there’s still time to do it.

Grade: 5/5

My Thoughts: I was quite honored Mr. Murray wanted to enter my assignment into the National Broadcasting Society competition. Honestly, I had forgotten there was such a thing.  Now that I’ve been reminded, I full intend to submit something in about eight different categories next year, so look out for those.

That’s it for audio assignments!  I’ll return next semester with updates from BC261 – Video Production II.  We’ll be making storyboards and doing a lot of editing, I imagine, so that should be a lot of fun. I’m also taking BC402 – Advanced Broadcast Writing, where we’ll be working on episodic scripts for a television program that we pitch during class. Very exciting stuff.

My Take: Random things. It came out rather dissonant.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADOlIUqwzY

Instructor Comments: Great job on your AA4 stereo & mono mixes.  The stereo version was very psychedelic indeed…almost started my beta waves vibrating.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADOlIUqwzY

Instructor Comments: Great job on your AA4 stereo & mono mixes.  The stereo version was very psychedelic indeed…almost started my beta waves vibrating.

Grade: 5/5

My Thoughts: I know what dissonant means.  That’s enough for today.

The Assignment: Record natural sounds using a Sony PCM-50 digital audio recorder.

My Take: I used the sound of an old 8mm camera I bought at a yard [...]]]> OK, So I’ve been terrible about posting these.  The end of the semester got a little crazy for me.  Luckily, only finals remain.  Here’s audio project 3:

The Assignment: Record natural sounds using a Sony PCM-50 digital audio recorder.

My Take: I used the sound of an old 8mm camera I bought at a yard sale, the sound of my computer fan (with the unmistakable sound of a train in the background), the sound of a big goofy dog, and the sound of a guitar hero guitar while I play Tom Sawyer by Rush.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibbJGVagPg

Instructor Comments: Great job on your natural sounds assignment.  Nice mixing as well…sounded very professional to my ears.

Grade: 5/5

My Thoughts: The next time you watch a movie, listen for the ambient sound and background noises.  Most of the time, what you’re hearing isn’t what was actually in the background of the scene.  Someone went out and recorded sounds and sound effects to fill out the scene.  Movies are crazy!

My Take: I had to write a research paper for BC323, so I combined the assignments and focused my research on the pending FCC broadband regulations.  The video link below was my research [...]]]> WIU BC323 Research Paper & BC102 Research Project
The Assignment: Research a topic and give an in-class summary of your findings.

My Take: I had to write a research paper for BC323, so I combined the assignments and focused my research on the pending FCC broadband regulations.  The video link below was my research summary for BC102.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PSsEp0hIR0

Full Video Text:
Too busy getting slizzard to keep up with the last hundred years of computer history?  Here’s what you missed.

2400 BC: The Chinese invent the abacus and… well, that’s a little far back.

1870: The US Census takes 7 years to tabulate. A census employee invents a way to store information on a punch card so that it could be read back later.  He founds a company to make the product.
He called it I-B-M.

1892: William S. Burroughs invents a fancy printable desk calculator.  If that name sounds familiar… It’s because he’s the grandfather of this guy.

1943: The geniuses at Bletchely Park in London are charged with breaking the German Enigma cipher so the Allies can intercept Nazi messages during the war.  The build the Colussus…A machine so big, even this guy’s impressed.

1958:  The integrated circuit is invented.  So now we can use these…Instead of these.

1965:  Moore’s Law says we gotta go really fast now…

1969: ARPANET – The Internet’s Grandad.

1981: This guy invents TCP/IP.  It… moves bits around. What are bits? No time!

1983: DNS is invented.

1989: The World Wide Web is invented.

1997: IBM’s Deep Blue Supercomputer beats Gary Kasparov at chess.

2000: Napster is invented and Lars Ulrich gets really pissed off.

2005: Youtube lets anyone be a distributor…Seriously, anyone.

2006: Netflix reaches five-point-one million U-S subscribers.

2007: Hulu opens the doors to digital delivery of TV…Which makes Comcast really mad.

And that’s what you missed on…Geek
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Given the changes in data regulation, it’s important to understand what’s at stake.  Here’s a map of the internet.

OK, that’s not very helpful.  Let’s look at it this way.

Most people think of the Internet as a thing, like you could turn it on and off.  It’s also been compared to a series of tubes.

But the internet is more of an idea, if you’re being existential, and more of a business arrangement, if you’re being cynical.

Networks like Qwest and Comcast operate as Internet Service Providers, providing individuals and businesses with data services.

Think of them as the on-ramps and off-ramps of the Internet.

Companies like Level Three are backbone providers. They’re like the interstate.

If you have Comcast and your grandma in Phoenix has Qwest, your email has to hop on the Level Three interstate to get to her.

These business arrangements are called peering exchanges.  Large companies with massive infrastructure partner with one another and exchange data for free.  That’s the Internet.

The growth in online video services has caused additional strain and cost for the infrastructure, causing the providers to question why they share data so freely with one another.

If the plans of corporations take hold in Washington, these large providers will begin pushing premium content into its own section of the Internet, where you’ll have to pay a higher cost for access.

The concept of a neutral network, one where no type of traffic is favored over another, is what allowed for the exponential growth of the Internet in the first place.
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It’s easy to take for granted the technology we have today.  We don’t question how our e-mail or text messages travel to one another.  We accept them, like radio waves and the tax code.  But the freedom of our data is in jeopardy, and it’s time to start paying attention.

2009: Obama elects Julius Genachowski as Chairman of the FCC.  He’s got to get through the digital TV switch and bring the internets to rural America.

4/7/2010: The US Court of Appeals overturns tells the FCC it has no right to interfere with how companies like Comcast manage their data services.

8/9/2010: Google and Verizon release their own version of a broadband plan and urge the FCC to implement it.  It doesn’t cover wireless, leaves lots of loopholes for prioritization, and leaves it open for data companies to privatize parts of the Internet.  And they want to regulate themselves.

11/17/2010: Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn vows to do whatever is necessary to stop any regulation of broadband traffic by the FCC.

That same day: Verizon and Comcast call broadband regulation an engineering, not a political issue.

Level 3 angrily informs us that Comcast is charging them to send data to Comcast customers.

It’s basically because Level 3 made an agreement to handle data for Netflix, which can sometimes be as much as twenty per-cent of U-S Internet traffic, and Comcast doesn’t want to foot the bill for Level 3

11/30/2010: AT&T meets with the FCC no less than six times this month to discuss broadband.

12/1/2010: Chairman Genachowski releases more information about the FCC’s broadband plan.

1) It excludes wireless, just like Verizon wanted.
2) It leaves open the possibility for premium internet access.
3) It probably doesn’t matter anyway.

The April decision by the Court of Appeals pretty much removed the FCC’s jurisdiction of data communications under Title 1.  They’ll have to fight long and hard (That’s what she said, Marsha Blackburn) to prove authority of the telecoms.

The FCC’s open meeting for December is Tuesday, the 21st at 9:30AM CST
You can watch it live at http://reboot.fcc.gov/live
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You can read the full-text version of my research here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44860465/BC323-Research-FCC-Net-Neutrality