Thrift, the protocol put out by Facebook actually has a module for PHP. While working on code for Social OS which uses Thrift extensively, I ran into a little problem because the extension seems to compile but it fails to load. The problem may be specific to Ubuntu 7.10 or 8.04, or other Linux distros. The reason for this is the configure script somehow ends up using gcc to compile something that should be compiled with g++. To fix this in a hackish way I changed the references to gcc to g++ in Makefile.More ... >>

I was playing around with using KVM because I have used Xen and I was wondering about KVM. I have headless servers which I use to play around with this stuff and they don't have X installed on them. So I tried the standard method and that doesn't work because KVM automatically assumes that it should run SDL. The alternative is to run VNC. The version of KVM that ships with Gutsy is broken and does not properly handle VNC, therefore you have to get the latest from the repository and compile it yourself. Afterwards run the system.

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