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		<title>CS3: Could not use the move tool because the target channel is hidden</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2010/05/31/cs3-move-tool-target-channel-hidden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[move tool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ok, so i was in CS3 half way, when i get this error message while trying to move a layer. I must have pressed something or clicked somewhere accidentally. A quick google search, and i found a reference site, which solve the problem. Solution: Hit key &#8220;Q&#8221;. This will toogle to edit in either &#8220;Quick [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok, so i was in CS3 half way, when i get this error message while trying to move a layer.</p>
<p><a href="http://howtogetitworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screen-shot-2010-06-01-at-PM-12.27.05.png"><img src="http://howtogetitworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screen-shot-2010-06-01-at-PM-12.27.05.png" alt="Could not use the move tool because the target channel is hidden." title="Adobe Photoshop Error Message" width="445" height="225" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-71" /></a></p>
<p>I must have pressed something or clicked somewhere accidentally.<br />
A quick google search, and i found a reference site, which solve the problem.</p>
<p>Solution: <strong>Hit key &#8220;Q&#8221;.</strong> This will toogle to edit in either &#8220;Quick Mask Mode&#8221; or &#8220;Standard Mode&#8221;.<br />
I guess most of us work in the &#8220;Standard Mode&#8221;.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the difference in your &#8220;Tools&#8221; palette when in different mode. note the rectangular icon with a circle inside.</p>
<p><a href="http://howtogetitworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screen-shot-2010-06-01-at-PM-12.29.15.png"><img src="http://howtogetitworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screen-shot-2010-06-01-at-PM-12.29.15.png" alt="Editing in Standard Mode" title="Editing in Standard Mode" width="57" height="399" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-72" /></a><a href="http://howtogetitworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screen-shot-2010-06-01-at-PM-12.29.25.png"><img src="http://howtogetitworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screen-shot-2010-06-01-at-PM-12.29.25.png" alt="Editing in Quick Mask Mode" title="Editing in Quick Mask Mode" width="57" height="399" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-73" /></a></p>
<p>Reference:<br />
<a href="http://www.graphic-forums.com/archive/index.php/t-3871.html" rel="nofollow" >HELP: Cannot Use Move Tool Because&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Mac: Measuring Wireless Signal Strengths</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2010/04/20/mac-measuring-wireless-signal-strengths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wireless]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting article i found here, about Optimising wireless reception from a distance, using the following command in Terminal: while x=1; do /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I &#124; grep CtlRSSI; sleep 0.5; done it returns a value in dBm, the wireless radio signal strength.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very interesting article i found here, about <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/150738/2010/04/optimizewirelessreception.html" rel="nofollow" >Optimising wireless reception from a distance</a>, using the following command in Terminal:</p>
<p><span style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">while x=1; do /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I | grep CtlRSSI; sleep 0.5; done</span></p>
<p>it returns a value in dBm, the wireless radio signal strength.</p>
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		<title>Quick Look: Mac OS X Mail</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2010/04/12/quick-mac-os-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is pretty tiring to have to wait for Microsoft Office to open just to have a quicklook at attachments in Mail. Equally tiring to have to drag the cursor to the attachment, highlight the icon and hit spacebar to quicklook the attachment. Here&#8217;s the shortcut key: Cmd+Y Shall have knew about this sooner!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is pretty tiring to have to wait for Microsoft Office to open just to have a quicklook at attachments in Mail. Equally tiring to have to drag the cursor to the attachment, highlight the icon and hit spacebar to quicklook the attachment.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the shortcut key: <strong>Cmd+Y</strong></p>
<p>Shall have knew about this sooner!</p>
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		<title>Snow Leopard: SpotLight</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2009/09/19/snow-leopard-spotlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[enabling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indexing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow leopard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[a while back, i disabled spotlight cause the process mds was totally consuming too much ram. with improved spotlight in snow leopard, i decided to give it a chance, but totally forget how to enable it back! so here&#8217;s for the reference: To turn Spotlight Indexing OFF in MAC OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard sudo [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a while back, i disabled spotlight cause the process mds was totally consuming too much ram.<br />
with improved spotlight in snow leopard, i decided to give it a chance, but totally forget how to enable it back!<br />
so here&#8217;s for the reference:</p>
<p>To turn Spotlight Indexing <strong>OFF</strong> in MAC OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard<br />
<span style="background-color:#cccccc;">sudo mdutil -a -i off</span></p>
<p>To turn Spotlight Indexing <strong>ON</strong> in MAC OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard<br />
<span style="background-color:#cccccc;">sudo mdutil -a -i on</span></p>
<p>Just type the respective command in terminal.<br />
If this don&#8217;t help you may follow the instruction on the link in reference.</p>
<p>Reference: <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/15/spotlight-wont-work-fix-a-broken-spotlight-menu-with-these-troubleshooting-tips/" rel="nofollow" >Spotlight won&#8217;t work?</a></p>
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		<title>Vacuuming iPhoto database</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2009/07/18/vacuuming-iphoto-database/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[with lots of photos events and album in iphoto, really need optimisation! vacuuming do helps quite a bit. Inside the iPhoto Library Package, there are four SQLite databases (face_blob.db, face.db, iPhotoAux.db and iPhotoMain.db). I found that by vacuuming all four of these databases, I restored iPhoto &#8217;09&#8242;s performance back to something on par with its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>with lots of photos events and album in iphoto, really need optimisation! vacuuming do helps quite a bit.</p>
<p>Inside the iPhoto Library Package, there are four SQLite databases (face_blob.db, face.db, iPhotoAux.db and iPhotoMain.db). I found that by vacuuming all four of these databases, I restored iPhoto &#8217;09&#8242;s performance back to something on par with its predecessor. </p>
<p>Open Terminal and cd into your iPhoto Library (by default, cd &#8220;~/Pictures/iPhoto Library&#8221;). Once there, execute the following command:<br />
<span style="background-color:#cccccc;">for dbase in *.db; do sqlite3 $dbase &#8220;vacuum;&#8221;; done</span></p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090227072825458" rel="nofollow" >macosxhints : Speed up iPhoto &#8217;09 by vacuuming its databases </a></p>
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		<title>emptying large log files</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2009/03/30/emptying-large-log-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty file content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unix command]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[my apache error_log file was like getting over 400mb! and go googling to figure how to empty these error messages and found this! # cat /dev/null &#62; /private/var/log/apache2/error_log that simple! and the error_log file is emptied. simplest method, fast and easy way to empty any file]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my apache error_log file was like getting over 400mb! and go googling to figure how to empty these error messages and found this!</p>
<p><span style="background-color:#cccccc;"># cat /dev/null &gt; /private/var/log/apache2/error_log</span></p>
<p>that simple! and the error_log file is emptied.<br />
simplest method, fast and easy way to empty any file</p>
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		<title>Mac: Lynx Text Web Browser and SEO-Browser</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2008/06/16/mac-lynx-text-web-browser-and-seo-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://howtogetitworking.com/2008/06/16/mac-lynx-text-web-browser-and-seo-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lynx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[text browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress seo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being trying out some seo stuff, well, have yet to optimise this site, but was workin on a wordpress site for a client, many interesting reads. one pretty good one will be this: WordPress SEO by Joost de Valk well if u googled, he will probably be among the top few in the PR for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being trying out some seo stuff, well, have yet to optimise this site, but was workin on a wordpress site for a client, many interesting reads. one pretty good one will be this:<br />
<a href="http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/" rel="nofollow" >WordPress SEO</a> by Joost de Valk<br />
well if u googled, he will probably be among the top few in the PR for that search term.</p>
<p>Being using Lynx through SSH on my unix server, so now that i got a mac, <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/lynxtextwebbrowser.html" rel="nofollow" >Lynx on mac</a>!<br />
a very easy install</p>
<p>may want to check out this cool page <a href="http://www.seo-browser.com/" rel="nofollow" >SEO Browser</a><br />
what i find so interesting is that it show you how your site is redirected like those permanently moved 301 and stuff. very good, in fact, i am trying to do something like this now. but more for searching for orphans links, missing images etc.</p>
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		<title>Mac: Installing mySQL in Leopard</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2008/04/03/installing-mysql-in-leopard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mac osx]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[phew! mySQL is finally working on my Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard comes with Apache and PHP installed but you will need to start Apache by opening terminal and run: apachectl -k start to enable php refer to Foundation PHP to auto start apache, go to &#8220;System Preference&#8221; and under &#8220;Sharing&#8221;, check on &#8220;Web Sharing&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>phew! mySQL is finally working on my Mac OS X 10.5</p>
<p>Leopard comes with Apache and PHP installed but you will need to start Apache<br />
by opening terminal and run:<br />
apachectl -k start</p>
<p>to enable php<br />
refer to <a href="http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/php_leopard.php" rel="nofollow" >Foundation PHP</a></p>
<p>to auto start apache, go to &#8220;System Preference&#8221; and under &#8220;Sharing&#8221;, check on &#8220;Web Sharing&#8221; this will auto start Apache on bootup</p>
<p>to install mySQL, the pretty challenging part here.<br />
if not done correctly, u probably will get permission error on data, failure to start automatically etc.<br />
jus follow the instruction here:<br />
<a href="http://www.red91.com/articles/2007/12/14/installing-mysql-on-leopard" rel="nofollow" >Installing MySQL on Leopard &#8211; Red91.com</a><br />
will archieve the tutorial here when i can find more time.</p>
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		<title>How To: Install mssql extension for php on unix</title>
		<link>http://howtogetitworking.com/2008/02/26/how-to-install-mssql-extension-for-php-on-unix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[woh! okie.. this installation is gng to be long a tough.. took me a few days of google crawling and testing before i finally get it to work. okie, why will u need to install mssql extension on php? possibly becos u need to connect to a ms sql server of ur vendor or something [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>woh! okie.. this installation is gng to be long a tough.. took me a few days of google crawling and testing before i finally get it to work.</p>
<p>okie, why will u need to install mssql extension on php? possibly becos u need to connect to a ms sql server of ur vendor or something like that. for integration i hope. cos unix works best w php and mysql, ie, installation, it is almost already thr. correct me if i m wrong.</p>
<p><strong>so wad you need?</strong><br />
if your server is jus fresh out of the box or say u had installed whm/cpanel there will be quite a far bit of stuff u will need.</p>
<p>1. Txt2man<br />
2. unixODBC<br />
3. freeTDS<br />
4. PHP mssql.so</p>
<p>if this point if you are wondering if i m using any rpm for installation?<br />
sorry,i m not, cos my server centos installed w whm/cpanel seems to be poorly equipped or configured for rpm installation, too many dependencies required. so jus download all the binary and upload them onto ur server.</p>
<p><strong>Setup 1: Install unixODBC package</strong></p>
<p>Install unixODBC first. Download the software in your home directory or anywhere you like and uncompress and untar the software.</p>
<p>You can do this by using following command</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># tar -xvzf unixODBC-2.2.12.tar.gz</div>
<p>Once it is done, go to the unixODBCxxxx dir and run the configure command.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># ./configure -prefix=/usr/local -enable-gui=no</div>
<p>Note: If you dont use enable-gui option and dont have Qt package, you will get the error. So make sure you use it if no Qt is installed.</p>
<p>After configure is successfully completed, run the make and then make install commands.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># make</div>
<p>Install it</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># make install</div>
<p><strong>Step 1.1: Installing Txt2man</strong><br />
this step is optional if your server already have txt2man installed.<br />
txt2man is required by freeTDS to man it documentation, i do find this portion pretty useless though.<br />
else jus download the package, and run the make</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># make</div>
<p>Install it</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># make install</div>
<p><strong>Step 2: Install freeTDS package</strong></p>
<p>Download the freeTDS package and untar and uncompress it.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># tar -xvzf freetds-stable.tgz</div>
<p>Run the configure.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># ./configure -with-tdsver=8.0 -with-unixODBC=/usr/local</div>
<p>Run the make</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># make</div>
<p>Install it</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># make install</div>
<p><strong>Step 3: Configuration freeTDS</strong><br />
Start configuration with freeTDS. Look for the freetds.conf file and add the entry for the MS SQL server.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC">[MSHOSTNAME]<br />
host = MSHOSTNAME<br />
port = 1433<br />
tds version = 8.0</div>
<p>Sql server standard port is the 1433. The tds version for MS SQL server 2000 is 8. You can try 8.0 with new version as well.<br />
Important: the host need to be the same as the declaration. ie<br />
if you have [mssql.hostname.com], ur host will be = mssql.hostname.com</p>
<p><strong>Step 4: Configuration &#8211; unixODBC</strong></p>
<p>The unixODBC need two main configuration files called odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini. These files should be in the /etc/ dir.</p>
<p><strong>I.</strong> The first file odbcinst.ini contain the definition of ODBC driver.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC">[TDS]<br />
Description = FreeTDS driver<br />
Driver = /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so<br />
Setup = /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so<br />
Trace = Yes<br />
TraceFile = /tmp/freetds.log<br />
FileUsage = 1</div>
<p>Note: Before making above entries, make sure libtdsodbc.so exists in the /usr/local/lib dir.<br />
In the above configuration, we have define TDS as driver.</p>
<p><strong>II.</strong> The second file is odbc.ini. This file has information about your MS SQL database.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC">[MSHOSTNAME]<br />
Driver = TDS<br />
Description = MS SQL Test<br />
Trace = Yes<br />
TraceFile = /tmp/mstest.log<br />
Servername = 192.168.1.100<br />
Database = testdb<br />
Port = 1433</div>
<p>You can notice above that the freeTDS driver is the name defined in odbcinst.ini while servername is the one defined in freetds.conf.</p>
<p><strong>Step 5: Test MS SQL connectivity from Linux box</strong><br />
Check if you can connect to MS SQL database using unixODBC tool called isql.</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># isql -v mstest satest satest<br />
+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+<br />
| Connected!                            |<br />
|                                       |<br />
| sql-statement                         |<br />
| help [tablename]                      |<br />
| quit                                  |<br />
|                                       |<br />
+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+<br />
SQL&gt; select * from &#8220;sysObjects&#8221;;</div>
<p>If you see the results, you are connected.</p>
<p><strong>Step 6: Getting your mssql.so file</strong><br />
<strong>Update:</strong> I came back to follow this to create an .so file and realise, mmm, this instruction wasn&#8217;t too clear. So here it goes. From <a href="php.net/downloads.php" rel="nofollow" >PHP.net Download</a> page, download the source code, then if you unzip, you will find a folder &#8220;ext&#8221; and &#8220;mssql&#8221; in the &#8220;ext&#8221; folder. tat&#8217;s the folder i m referring to, &#8216;cd&#8217; to this folder and then run phpize as below mentioned.</p>
<p><strong id="mssql.so">Add: </strong> for the benefits of those who just need the .so file, you can download the <a href="http://www.howtogetitworking.com/downloads/mssql.so.zip" rel="nofollow" >mssql.so</a> from here. however, i don&#8217;t assure, compatibility with you php version. is built with php 5.2.10 binaries.</p>
<p>php.net is not distrubuting the binary version of php package for *nix server, so you will have to create the .so extension file yourself. download the source file for php and upload the folder /ext/mssql/ into your server<br />
then</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># cd /uploaded_path/mssql/<br />
# phpize<br />
# ./configure<br />
# make<br />
# make install</div>
<p>this commands will automatically create a copy of mssql.so in the installed extension folder.<br />
you can check your extension folder from</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC">&lt;?php<br />
phpinfo();<br />
?&gt;</div>
<p><strong>Step 7: Enabling the extension</strong></p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># echo &#8220;extension=mssql.so&#8221; &gt; /usr/local/lib/php.ini</div>
<p>or you can use a texteditor and add that value manually into php.ini</p>
<p><strong>Step 8: Restarting Apache Server!</strong><br />
dependin on version installed and location</p>
<div style="background-color:#CCCCCC"># /etc/init.d/httpd restart</div>
<p>and you are done!<br />
do drop me an email should you face any problem at any step!<br />
i know the pain in gettin this extension installed on unix. and considering rpm fails to work in the first place.<br />
i will say, this is the best way to get it installed, cos u have full control over it. and didn&#8217;t fail me, of cos, after hell lots of googling around.</p>
<p>Source:<br />
<a href="http://www.dbapool.com/articles/06280701.html" rel="nofollow" >dpacool.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/FreeTDS.html" rel="nofollow" >unixodbc.org</a><br />
<a href="http://www.scottdavey.net/blogger/2008/02/connecting-to-ms-sql-server-from-php.html" rel="nofollow" >Scott&#8217;s Blog</a><br />
<a href="http://php.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/manual/en/install.pecl.phpize.php" rel="nofollow" >PHP PECL</a></p>
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