I have just got Godfather 2 and having played it for more than 3 hrs i can definitely say Godfather 2 isnt bad game after all and very much worth buying it.

I had a confusion of whether to buy the game or not especially because many gamers complaining that it is given only 4.5 poor rating in one of the popular game review sites.

After i had a look on the game, I am pretty impressed with graphics, new …

I was always searching for copyright free, open source icons and web graphics to use in my website. Most of them i got was authors demanding a small fee for icon usage.

I am documenting here a rare open source icon sets which are free for any usage. I believe that these icon graphics could be very useful for your website development.

Icojoy Web Development Icons

License: Free

FamFamFam Silk Icon Set

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Lullacons – Free GPL Icons

License: GPL

Web Control …

Today i went through some of the easy to use PHP frameworks, ideal for developing rapid php applications and websites with ease of use.

I did a study on following php toolkits and i was pretty impressed with codeigniter and it is the best easy to use php framework i have seen. All the frameworks work based on MVC (Model View Controller). All the frameworks are open source and licensed GPL or MIT license.

CakePHP – http://cakephp.org/
CodeIgniter – http://www.codeigniter.com
PHPLib – http://phplib.sourceforge.net
Symphony …

i tried to run apache update and cpanel throwed this error and failed!

Internal Server Error

Premature end of script headers:
/usr/local/cpanel /whostmgr/docroot/cgi/easyapache.pl:
Please check / usr / local / cpanel / logs / error_log for the exact error.

i didnt know how to fix this problem and soon i fixed this problem by checking and updating the perl modules in cpanel with this command

/scripts/checkperlmodules

If this still didnt fix this problem, the clue for exact error will be in cpanel error_log.

Hope this entry helps!

Apache not starting problem with Ioncube and Zend Optimizer

I was in a state of shock when apache failed to start when i installed ioncube in my centos server along with zend optimizer which is already running. Most commercial scripts come with encoding either in the form of zend optimizer or ioncube and it is essential to be deployed on various shared hosting systems.

i downloaded Ioncube loader, unzipped it and added this line zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so at the bottom of /usr/local/lib/php.ini and i …

How to install Zend Optimizer in Cpanel Linux

Many commercial PHP scripts usually are encoded and in order for it to work in your server, you will need to install Zend Optimizer in your server running Linux. If you have cpanel you can setup within minutes and in just one line.

Login as root using SSH and run this command and it will install the zend optimizer.

/scripts/installzendopt

Then restart the apache

service httpd restart

To check whether zend optimizer is running..use this command

php -v

It …

I purchased a commercial software which needed Zend optimizer since it was encoded one. I uploaded all my scripts to my linux server and suddenly i got this error when accessing the site.

Fatal error: Unable to read 25447 bytes in index.php

I did have Zend optimizer installed in our cpanel server and didnt know how to fix this problem. Sooner we found the culprit was FTP software.

Fix:

Since the scripts are encoded, you have to upload the php files in BINARY …

Guitar not for left handers?

I am not a music pro and recently i walked into the music store and purchased an acoustic guitar for $80. I am a left hander and i started learning guitar lessons in youtube and other sites and it all became upside down to play chords since i am using right handed guitar in my left hand. Most music books and teachings were written for right handed guitars in mind and so it is way too …

how to convert video from avi to DVD?

i am not a pro when comes to video editing and conversion. I am sharing here some of the easy tips on converting large avi file to dvd format.

My situation:

I had a 3 hour very large home video (about 30GB file size) in avi format from my Sony Handycam in miniDV cassette.

What i wanted

My goals were to transcode/convert the 3hr video from miniDV cassette and compress the video in such a way …

Know what is like, sleeping during daytime and working whole night?

Trust me! I have been living like this for the past 5 years and a habit like this can transform a person insanely. I am a living example for this.

I work the whole night, go to bed by 6′o clock in the early morning and get up by 3pm in the afternoon.

I am documenting here what good and bad i have gone through while being ‘nocturnal’ (term …