After installing Digikam on Ubuntu, I had no video thumbnails or ability to play video.
When trying to play a video I recieved the error “an error has occurred with the media player digikam” and on the terminal “xine is asking to seek behind the end of the data stream”
To resolve this I installed mplayer thumbs for the thumbnails and xine-ui to play the vids.
A few days ago I started using Symfony. I chose to use Propel as the ORM. The ORM generates the PHP classes and database structure from your schema.
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sed < /var/log/httpd/webtop.access_log -e 's/ .*$//' | sort | uniq -c
I’ve just started using the PHP framework, Symphony, after putting it off for far too long!
This seems to be the way to download and deploy symfony, and I’m sure I’m going to want to do it again so I took notes, here they are: 
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This bash command will remove the left over config files from old packages that were removed with “apt-get remove”.
dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs sudo dpkg --purge
See the source article for an explanation of how it works.
After my semi successful prototype of my remote control car speedometer project using a reed switch, I’m back with version 2, this time using a hall effect sensor.
I love my Arduino development board and have done some interesting experiments with it, and now I am at the stage of wanting to make some of my circuits a bit more independent and permanent, mainly so I can continue to use development board for tinkering with while leaving my other projects in a working state. The mind, body and soul of the Arduino is the ATmega168 chip, which contains all the memory, processor, analogue to digital converters and pretty much everything else. As these chips can be picked up for only a couple of pounds I thought I would have a go at making a stand alone unit to log data to an SD card…
I’ve recently acquired a laser pen, and of course, instantly dismantled it! I bypassed the push button and soldered on a couple of wines replacing the batteries, allowing it to be powered and controlled by the Arduino.
As mentioned in an earlier post, I suggested the motor driver IC would be preferable over four transistors and lots of wire due to it’s small and neat package! However I have just realised something that may sway me in the other direction…