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I've never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I've always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system.
The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old and I don't have the time (*sic*) to play with it to make it work well. Lenny should be next to be released but I don't feel the very famous stability AND lightness of Debian distributions on this release, like I was accustomed in the past years. Is this because I own a Macbook? Maybe, but a Macbook Santa Rosa is nothing more than an Intel-powered notebook with some strange input devices and a strange non-bios system

Regarding Ubuntu, I believe that this distribution has become naff and really slow. See this Slashdot discussion on this topic.

Yesterday I stumbled to Scientechie review of Fedora 10, which convinced me to try it out.
The software shipped with Fedora 10 is aligned with the one provided with the other distributions: Gnome 2.24.0, kernel 2.6.27.5, NetworkManager 0.7.0 (svn) and so on. Read the release notes for more information.

Fedora 10 really surprises me, as it is the first Gnu/Linux distribution in many, many years that makes me feel again the great stability and performance of the Penguin. Therefore I'm writing this review that is also a how-to, as it contains some fixes for Fedora 10 and Macbooks.

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This is dedicated to my angel..

Annihilator - The One

You are the one but so far away
To be with you, there's no other way
you kiss and you touch so perfectly
I need to hold you close to me

I want you and I need you
Like no one else before
Right here and right now
I can't take this anymore

I wanna be yours forever, a king for and a queen
But not in a story, not in a dream
I try to put myself to sleep but I miss the one I love
I miss the one I love
I think I got myself in deep with an angel from above
You're the one I love

I wanna be yours forever, a king for and a queen
But not in a story, not in a dream
I try to put myself to sleep but I miss the one I love
I miss the one I love
I think I got myself in deep with an angel from above
With an angel from above

You're the one I love

After about 5 months of separation from my preferred operating system, the discontent brought by Mac Os X led me to a re-born love with Gnu/Linux.
I Installed Gentoo (~x86, not x86) on my MacBook, following some articles found on the Gentoo wiki and on Ubuntu wiki.
The result is the following:

Clean Desktop

Some things opened: Gnome Menu, Gnome Terminal, Nautilus, Scite

Features:

• Gnome 2.22.2
• MurrinaGilouche + Elementary Metacity (link - link)
• black-white 2 Gloss Icons (link)
• Screenlets [RingSensors] (link)
• A wallpaper included in Gnome, still looking for the perfect one

Let's have some fun with Gnu/Linux...again!

If someone asked me how do I imagine love.. Instead of words I would answer with this photo:

We are so sweet..love you..

If you're interested in writing secure php sites, there are some useful sources to be read.
I suggest some links:

• Writing Secure Php from the author of another useful article about mod_rewrite (Ilovejackdaniels.com), three pages
• Creating a Secure Php Login Script A little tutorial from devshed.com
• SecurePHP Yeah cool! A wiki about secure php! Lots of interesting articles!
• Php Security Guide From PHP Security Consortium
• Pro PHP Security A book written by Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell, well written. You should really buy it!...Ok...I'm about at page 150 of 500 but..I's interesting, anyway

As you maybe already know, my permalink structure of the blog was of type http://bd-things.net/year/month/day/title-of-the-article/
I've just updated the permalink structure to this new one: http://bd-things.net/title-of-the-article/

This is nothing difficult, you can set it in Wordpress control panel (Options->Permalinks)

The problem was that, if I just updated the settings in WP control panel, all the links which pointed to my articles, written in forums, mailing lists, etc, would have been broken. I needed a mod_rewrite rule. And I'm a noob about mod_rewriting.
After some googling, I found this awesome mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet which brought me to the solution (after about 30 x /etc/init.d/apache2 reload ):


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


You just need to add two new lines in your mod_rewrite rules, as you see:

RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)/$ $1/ [R,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^200[0-9]/[0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/(.*)$ $1/ [R,NC,L]

The line basically means:
take the urls which starts with a year (200x) / continue with a month / continue again with a day / contain some text / (with or without the final slash / )
re_write the url just like this: /contain some text/

Yeap, it works! You can try it!
This is my famous article about thermal problems of Amd Turion X2 cpus and Linux (this is the link that Google knows) http://bd-things.net/2006/12/02/hp-nx6325-and-friends-thermal-problems-solved/
The link will be redirected to http://bd-things.net/hp-nx6325-and-friends-thermal-problems-solved/.

Cool, isn't that? In this way, you can change your permalinks structure without loosing your google rank