DazBlade

The result of the independent tribunal hearing into the Carlos Tevez affair was very heart warming. Finally some justice although it is far too little, far too late.

The tribunal has ruled against West Ham over the Tevez affair, according to my beloved Sheffield United and its about time too!! SUFC will be claiming millions of pounds in compensation but that will not compensate for being relegated from the Premier League which, as we all know, should have been West Ham who got booted out.

I found the statement by the FA particularly amusing: “For clarity, the FA did not sit in judgement on this case, did not have any influence on the decision and did not appoint any of the tribunal members” – hmmm, well Derrr!! If they had of appointed members then the decision would have been just as corrupt as the cheats that committed the heinous act in the first place!!! Thankfully the FA had no input in the decision.

You can read the full story at the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7632324.stm

This article is specifically aimed at Fedora users when using the Gnome desktop. However, it should be easy to translate it to your own specific Linux distro, I think.

When starting/using K3B, you may get the following message:-
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Mp3 Audio Decoder plugin not found.
K3b could not load or find the Mp3 decoder plugin. This means that you will not be able to create Audio CDs from Mp3 files. Many Linux distributions do not include Mp3 support for legal reasons.
Solution: To enable Mp3 support, please install the MAD Mp3 decoding library as well as the K3b MAD Mp3 decoder plugin (the latter may already be installed but not functional due to the missing libmad). Some distributions allow installation of Mp3 support via an online update tool (i.e. SuSE’s YOU).
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Now, I had previously installed libmad so initially was somewhat confused by this message as libmad was installed and I thought that this was all that was needed to give me MP3 support. When performing a ‘yum install libmad’ it did not request for any dependencies. So after further research, I was surprised to find I also needed to install libmad-devel (MPEG audio decoder library development files) and madplay (MPEG audio decoder and player) but that was still not the end of it, oh no…

The final piece of the jigsaw was a little K3B plugin by the name of k3b-extras-nonfree-1.0.3-1.lvn8.i386.rpm – should you need the RPM package you can find the relevant one for your disto & version at http://rpm.pbone.net/ and just search on “rpm-mp3″ without the quotes. Currently needed for RedHat and Fedora and you should be able to get the RPM package for your specific version. Or if you prefer then just open a terminal and perform a yum install k3b-extras-nonfree and job done.

***UPDATE*** as of Fedora 10 you should do yum install k3b-extras-freeworld and NOT k3b-extras-nonfree.

In Ubuntu you may only need to Run the following code in a terminal: sudo apt-get install libk3b2-mp3 – unsure as to whether you need the other stuff  (or similar), above?

Now when you run K3B, your system configuration should get the all clear and you can burn your MP3’s using your chosen method.

In case you are interested then here are the details for our public game server – 85.234.148.28:27075

Why not add it to your server Favourites and come and join us for some moo-king about and wholegrain fun…

That was the message imprinted on the balloons released by the Man City fans when they visited Bramall Lane for the FA Cup 4th round tie. Well, whoever printed those balloons clearly knows very little about the beautiful game of football or maybe its a case of wishful thinking, perhaps.

In fact, it was those very same balloons that apparently confused the City defence and Goalkeeper into handing us our first goal or thats what they would like you to believe. How anyone cannot tell the difference between a big blue or white balloon and a football, is just unbelievable. Here’s a tip, City – A balloon is big, bouncy and slightly mis-shaped. Whereas a football is smaller, white and circular!

The reality is that their defence cocked up. The appropriately named City defender, Michael Ball, appeared to kick at fresh air as the football went through the middle of his legs and landed at the feet of Luton Shelton who calmly controlled the ball before slotting past Joe Hart and into the back of the net. Hart then proceeded to stamp on the balloons as if somehow they were to blame as opposed to sloppy defending.

Sheff Utd 2 Man City 1 – We matched them in most areas and simply out played them in others and we got a very well deserved win. For me, the man of the match was definitely Sheff Utd defender, Leigh Bromby, who actually can tell the difference between a balloon and a football…

Lets take it through to the next round now, when we will play Middlesboro at home.

Come on you Blades!

PS note to Boro fans – if you wish to bring some balloons to the match then you are more than welcome!

I was previously in a counter strike source, clan, for around 14 months but found myself in a position where I had to leave due to reasons that would not be fair to post in here, so we parted company. However, we are still friends and I still play regularly on their server. They will always have a place in my heart as that was the first and only clan I have ever been in prior to creating {CoW}.

I spent the next 6 months visiting various clan servers and web sites and out of the many, only 1 or 2 came close to what I was looking for but I never really felt ‘at home’ so to speak. So, after much consideration I made the decision to start my own clan along with some other like minded friends and behold, the {CoW} was born.

We all know and live near each other and in some cases, work together. We are the founder admins, and to all intents and purposes it is our clan. We are a fun and friendly bunch and are more interested in getting together for a good laugh as opposed to winning everything in sight (not that we could anyway)

You can visit the official {CoW} clan website at http://www.cow-clan.co.uk

Rhydian was robbed, simple as that. I am wondering if a bit of phone fixing may have swung the result because lets face it, Leon at best is only a pub singer and never deserved to get as far as he did.

Whereas Rhydian on the other hand was consistently star quality week in week out and will be a big star long after Leon has dive bombed into obscurity.

Yes, McClaren should be sacked, no question of that. However, anybody who watched that actual game last night will have seen a lacklustre performance by a group of players that obviously could not care less whether they qualified or not or whether they won or not. Other than Peter Crouch, I think most of those playing last night should be sacked too.

This is a real low point for English football and it is going to take a lot of hard work to turn it around, starting with appointing a decent manager would set the ball rolling nicely. I do not want to predict who will or who should be the next manager but lets just hope that whoever it is, actually has some experience of winning trophies, can motivate his players and doesn’t keep changing formations every time the wind changes direction!

The first time I upgraded my Wordpress installation I used the standard upgrade instructions and although it went through without a glitch I did find them long winded and time consuming, it took over 10 minutes so in my book that is time consuming.

If you are fortunate enough to have SVN on your server then I recommend you convert your Wordpress installation to be able to upgrade with SVN. The conversion is quick and easy and future upgrades using SVN are a doddle and very fast.

Now we get to the crux of why I’m writing this – I do not have access to SVN and nor am I allowed to install it on the server so I came up with a work-around for everyone else who finds themselves in this situation. I am still fairly new to LINUX, so for more experienced users this method is probably obvious or perhaps even considered pointless? but nonetheless it works for me.

This is in relation to the stable version and not the trunk (unstable) version of Wordpress. The link for the instructions for converting your wordpress installation to use SVN along with upgrading using SVN can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion – that is the page I used.

On that page, scroll down to the instructions for “Converting a “Traditional” WordPress Blog to a Subversion Checkout” and go to “1. Create a new temporary blog directory”. On your local server/PC, follow the instructions below “First, create the temporary directory and check out WordPress there:”. But we need to add an additional step after performing the SVN. We now need to get the blognew folder on to the remote server before continuing and this is where we use RSYNC over SSH:

rsync -avz /home/username/blognew/ -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/home/sites/mydomain/public_html/blognew

Don’t forget, we are still working on the local server/PC and you will have to amend the RSYNC command accordingly depending on your system, so “/home/username/blognew/” is where you downloaded wordpress to using SVN. And “username@remotehost:/home/sites/mydomain/public_html/blognew” is the destination on your remote server. You may need to confirm some details with your host if you are not sure of them. For instance “remotehost” can be an IP address or URL/domain. In my case, I use an IP address. The path after “:” should be where you place your website files and in the location directly above the folder of your wordpress installation.

Then, all the following instructions, below “Next, copy the old wp-config and .htaccess files to the new site:” are performed on the remote server.

And that is it – basically a 2 minute job. All future upgrades can then be done by repeating the above. Please note, I am only using RSYNC because I do not have SVN installed on my remote server. If you have SVN on your remote server then you do not need the additional RSYNC step. Hope that makes sense and helps other people in the same situation.