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php binary not found. Make sure php5 or php exists in PATH

Juan Jose Pablos — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:18:44 +0000

If you found this error on debian lenny. Then it means that you have not got the Command Line Interface package. To fix it (assuming that you are using php5):

aptitude install php5-cli

The fastest mirror for Debian Lenny

Juan Jose Pablos — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:23:29 +0000

Hi,
I always forget what was the command to get the fastest mirror for debian packages:

 netselect-apt lenny

if you have not got that command try to install it with:

 aptitude install netselect-apt

ColorPage-Vivid 1200XE under debian

Juan Jose Pablos — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:40:42 +0000

After a while trying to get a pretty nice genius scanner, I had give up, and I had bought one of the scanners that are supported on the sane project A Genius ColorPage-Vivid 1200XE. So I had plugin in and then an error saying " Fail to open the device Not valid argument". I was a bit lost, but then I tried to open the xsane program from the command line: [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd569.fw'): where the hell is that file? Searching did not help much. It must be a ccd569.fw somewhere otherwise what is the point in having a reference to a non-existen file? So I try to use the windows driver from the cd ( you can download from genius) wine 1200xe.exe extracts other files, but not ccd569.fw, so I try to execute: wine Setup.exe damn it fails! so what about extract the cab files? cabextract data1.cab oh oh, it has been created for the InstallShield installer. So I had to download unshield plus configure and make. But finally unshield data1.cab works for me, I was able to find under DRV_USB_GT6816 the CCD569.fw file. Copy to /usr/share/sane/gt68xx to make your system happy

Did you ever wonder what language is faster

Juan Jose Pablos — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:44:35 +0000

I guess that is very difilcult to mesaure language perfomarnce. But this people know a great dealt:

Create your own Overall Scores | The Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks

my upgrade of wordpress 1.5.0 to 1.5.2

Juan Jose Pablos — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:27:44 +0000

I am getting a few spammers comming to my blog. So I thought that if should be time to upgrade wordpress to a new version as I am hoping that this upgrade will keep spammers away.

So that was easy:

download http://packages.debian.org/wordpress dpkg -i wordpress_1.5.2-1_all.deb
replace /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php
skip /etc/wordpress/htaccess

It will fail with an error about not able to find
/etc/wordpress/config-XXXXX.php
no worries..
cp /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php.dpkg-old /etc/wordpress/config-XXXXX.php

It worked for me, good luck!